What is Live Earth?!


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What is Live Earth?

I have been hearing about it all weekend and I was just wondering, what is it? Is it a concert? Where is it? Could someone please send me a link or something? Thanks..


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Live Earth is the name for a series of multi-venue concerts of pop and rock music featuring various artists which took place on July 7, 2007 (7.7.07). The concerts aimed to raise awareness about anthropogenic climate change (global warming) and to encourage people to live greener lives, all the while accepting the need to contribute to a global carbon tax. The concerts have the intent of bringing together more than 150 of the world's most popular music acts and drawing an estimated worldwide audience of 2 billion people, making it one of the largest global events in history.

From what I remember, the concerts that were televised were in:

London, England (biggest)
New Jersey (2nd biggest)
Washington, DC
Hamburg, Germany
Sydney, Australia
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Kyoto, Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Shanghai, China
Rothera Research Station, Antarctica (only one band)
Johannesburg, South Africa

So basically, the concert is to raise awareness for global warming. It was organized by Al Gore (not by Bob Geldof who organized 1985's Live Aid/Farm Aid and 2005's Live 8). The first concert started in Sydney, Australia and it was broadcast in N. America on the evening of July 6. Then concerts in other countries started and all of it lasted non-stop for about 24 hours.

Some of the famous acts:
Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Madonna, Black Eyed Peas, Macy Gray, Enrique Iglesias, Joss Stone, Fall Out Boy, Bon Jovi, Kelly Clarkson, Keane, The Police, Snow Patrol, Rihanna, Linkin Park, Shakira, Lenny Kravitz, James Blunt, Beastie Boys, Pussycat Dolls, Foo Fighters, Akon, John Mayer, AFI, Bloc Party, Genesis, Alicia Keys, Ludacris, Smashing Pumpkins, and more.

You can watch the whole show (from any concert you want/best of)on demand on MSN:
http://www.liveearth.msn.com/

You can also see some of the performances on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_qu...


For more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/live_earth...


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