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NEW YORK -- Organizers today announced seventeen of the headliners who
will perform at the U.S. leg of the 7-continent, 24-hour Live Earth concerts on
7/7/07. The concert will be held at Giants Stadium in New Jersey, Live Earth
founder and executive producer Kevin Wall said. Tickets for the show go on sale
Monday, April 16 at 10 a.m. EDT. "Capping Live Earth with a blockbuster show
like this will ensure we meet our challenge of building a mass audience to
combat global warming," Wall said. "Live Earth will be a monumental event both
in terms of entertainment and in turning the tide against global warming."
The global concert on 7/7/07 will begin in Sydney and continue across all 7 continents,
concluding with the U.S. show.
"We hope the energy created by Live Earth will jump start a massive public
education effort," Live Earth co-chair vice president Al Gore said. "Live Earth
will help us reach a tipping point that's needed to move corporations and
governments to take decisive action to solve the climate crisis."
The U.S. show will feature live on stage:
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. EDT on Monday, April 16 and will be available
at livenation.com/liveearth or by calling Ticketmaster at
(212) 307-7171. All ticket information is available at LiveEarth.MSN.com. All proceeds will go to The Alliance for Climate Protection and other
international NGOs.
Live Earth is a monumental music event that will bring together more than 2
billion people to combat the climate crisis. Live Earth's 24 hours of music
across 7 continents will deliver a call to action and the solutions needed to
answer the call. Live Earth marks the beginning of a multi-year campaign led by
The Alliance for Climate Protection to move individuals, corporations and
governments to take action.
Earlier today, Wall announced that the following artists will perform at the
London leg of Live Earth at Wembley Stadium: BEASTIE BOYS BLACK EYED PEAS BLOC PARTY CORINNE BAILEY RAE DAMIEN RICE DAVID GRAY DURAN DURAN FOO FIGHTERS GENESIS JAMES BLUNT JOHN LEGEND KASABIAN KEANE MADONNA METALLICA PAOLO NUTINI PUSSYCAT DOLLS RAZORLIGHT RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS SNOW PATROL SPINAL TAP TERRA NAOMI
Exclusive online media partner MSN is helping Live Earth reach people in
every corner of the globe. The concerts will be streamed live on 7/7/07 at LiveEarth.MSN.com. MSN's 39 localized web portals
worldwide attract 465 million monthly users. The concerts will be broadcast on
the NBC in the U.S. and on more than 120 networks around the world.
Wall also announced that smart car, Stonyfield Farm and Pepsi have joined Live Earth as corporate partners. In
addition to working with Live Earth to create corporate efforts to combat global
warming, this growing list of partners will help ensure a mass audience for Live
Earth is reached. These efforts will be detailed at a later date.
Wall also announced today that Live Earth will stage concerts at Sydney's
Aussie Stadium; Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach; Johannesburg's Cradle of
Human Kind; Tokyo's Tokyo Dome and Shanghai (location TBD).
Live Earth is produced by Control Room, of which Kevin Wall is the CEO.
Control Room has produced and distributed more than 60 concerts since its
founding in 2005 featuring Beyoncé, Madonna, Green Day and the Rolling Stones,
among others. |