Criticism on Live 8

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Originally Posted by trackaghost

While I agree with Albarn on a lot of points he makes I do think the good outweights the bad. I've often thought it strange that rich stars and musicians give up half a day and are considered heroes and yet the benefits from performing at something like Live Aid are huge to them. Look at Queen, that one performance turned them into legends.

A positive outcome of all of this in the UK is that people are actually talking and debating about world poverty, whereas a week before no one was giving it a second thought.

It's odd though, for a board that's often so political, that this thread has barely any responses. Discussing the line-up for Live 8 was a big issue, but the reasons behind it don't seem to be.

I don't know why that is...

I think a lot of the acts on the bill see it as an opportunity to get some extra publicity, personally. Just look at the Spice Girls. I know Greg is on Cloud Nine over it, but from where I sit, it looks to me like they're simply trying to promote their greatest hits package.