PINK FLOYD: The organisers of Live 8 have just announced that all four original members of Pink Floyd will perform at the London Hyde Park event on 2nd July 2005. This will be the first time that the band have played together on stage since the early 80's. Roger Waters will be reunited with fellow band-members Dave Gilmour, Nick Mason and Rick Wright for the show.
There has been much speculation about this in the media, but the announcement has been confirmed today. Dave Gilmour writes:
"Like most people I want to do everything I can to persuade the G8 leaders to make huge commitments to the relief of poverty and increased aid to the Third World. It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations. Any squabbles Roger and the band have had in the past are so petty in this context, and if reforming for this concert will help focus attention then it's got to be worthwhile."
The show has been organised by original Live Aid organiser's Bob Geldof and Midge Ure for the Make Poverty History campaign to help fight African poverty. The concert is an attempt to put pressure on the G8 industrialised countries to forgive African debt and increase aid budgets. It is one of five concerts taking place around the world on July 2 with the other four taking place in Paris, Philadelphia, Berlin and Rome. A further concert will take place on July 6 in Edinburgh to co-incide with the G8 Summit.