Most classic rock fans remember one thing about Live 8: Pink Floyd. When Live 8 took place on July 2 and 6, 2005, it was billed as a series of benefit concerts to help commemorate that summer's G8 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. L-R: David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Rick Wright at Live 8 London in Hyde Park, 2 July 2005 (Getty) Live Aid lied to ...

Roger Waters' relationship with David Gilmour was so distant in the period before Pink Floyd's celebrated reunion at Live 8 that Waters had to ask organizer Bob Geldof for his former bandmate's phone ...

Bruised by harsh criticism and soft ratings, MTV executives Wednesday acknowledged missteps in their broadcast of last weekend’s Live 8 concerts and hinted that they might retool the program and show ...

The Live 8 concerts scheduled for this weekend are aimed at raising global public awareness of the challenges confronting Africa. Madeleine Brand speaks with Philadelphia Inquirer music critic Dan ...

A Pink Floyd reunion with all four members of the band’s most successful period involved seemed like one of rock music’s greatest pipe dreams for quite some time. The water under the bridge for these ...

Live 8 got off to an anticlimactic start in Japan on Saturday, as Bjork and Good Charlotte joined local bands in a concert to promote awareness of poverty in Africa that failed to generate much ...

MTV and VH1 will telecast eight hours of the Live 8 concerts on July 2, the networks said Wednesday. The performances, featuring artists U2, Coldplay, Madonna, Dave Matthews Band, Jay-Z and Destiny’s ...

In what was dubbed “the final push,” the last Live 8 concert took place in Edinburgh on July 6 as heads of state assembled at Gleneagles for the G8 conference. A rain-soaked crowd of 50,000 heard ...

Philadelphia, PA – Today, ONE volunteers from across America joined community leaders, activists and Live 8 artists and celebrities to kick-off the Philadelphia Live 8 Concert by delivering 300,000 ...

Live Aid lied to us. It would be 20 years from that legendary transatlantic charity knees-up before an all-star Bob Geldof production would rock all over the world. Fifty thousand people watched the ...