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Article: Forget about saving Africa...when are they going to save our video screens? It was oddly quiet ... but there were plenty of laughs in rock's 'third world'.
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 3, 2005
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Byline: DAVID THOMAS
LIVE8 was all about inequality, injustice, the gulf between rich and poor. That was the big political cause. So that was the way they organised the concert.
Somewhere near the stage was a promised land, the Gold Circle, filled with VIPs who'd paid up to [pounds sterling]600 a ticket to be close enough to reach out and touch the stars.
This was a land where beer and champagne flowed like water, where Jonathan Ross reigned supreme in his Perspex bubble, enthroned high above the crowds below.
That was the First World of rock, Live8's G8.
But there was another, far bigger Live8 population. Further back, ...