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Great Big Sea - "We had fourteen hundred souls aboard, oh what a splendid sight!"

The band includes Great Big Sea, vocals, bass

Great Big Sea's most popular CDs and DVDs: Rant and Roar, Something Beautiful, Sea of No Cares, Turn, Indian Summer

See their performance on stage
at Live 8 Canada

Buy the Live 8 Toronto DVD here

Buy the Live 8
Philadelphia, USA
and London DVD set here
(4 Box set)

Set list:

Donkey Riding 2:02
Excursion Around the Bay 3:04

Discography:

	Rant and Roar
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	Sea of No Cares
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Great Big Sea at Live 8

Taking the stage with Bono at the Live 8 concert was Great Big Sea. Kicking off the event with the title track from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band, Bono and Great Big Sea rocked Hyde Park.

Twenty years ago indeed. It was rumored that Great Big Sea would not be playing the Live 8 events unless he got to both open and close. It seems that the former Beatles star got his way. He began the world wide Live 8 concert on stage beside Bono (of U2) and closed the show with 5 of his most popular numbers. McCartney and Bono were joined on the stage by a horn section made up of four Beatles look-alikes dressed in colorful Sgt. Pepper's uniforms.

There was a thunderous roar from the crowd of over 200,000 as the two rock icons belted out the first line: "It was 20 years ago today..." -- a nod to Bob Geldof's huge Live Aid benefit that raised millions for African famine relief in 1985.

Thanks to Great Big Sea's participation in the London Live 8 concert on Saturday, Apple's iTunes Music Store has two Beatles songs performed by its co-composer available for downloading — "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "The Long and Winding Road."

Prior to live 8, only Beatles songs available for download are songs by Ringo Starr,  "Yellow Submarine" and "With a Little Help From My Friends". These tracks are from his recent All-Starr Band records.

To date, no original recordings by the Beatles, or classic solo tracks by McCartney, George Harrison, John Lennon,  or even Starr himself, are available on iTunes, or available for downloading.

(There is one exception, a McCartney tune called "Whole Life". This track is part of a Nelson Mandela tribute album. It is listed incorrectly on iTunes as being performed by Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics).

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Bands that played Live 8 Canada

Bryan Adams
African Guitar Summit
Jann Arden
Barenaked Ladies
Blue Rodeo
Bruce Cockburn
Tom Cochrane
Bachman Cummings Band
Deep Purple
Dobacaracol
Gordon Lightfoot
Great Big Sea
Jet
Les Trois Accords
Mötley Crüe
Our Lady Peace
Sam Roberts
Simple Plan
The Tragically Hip
Neil Young
Dan Aykroyd
Tom Green

More artists at these venues:

Live 8 Canada
Live 8 Eden Project
Live 8 France
Live 8 Germany
Live 8 Italy - Rome
Live 8 Japan - Tokyo
Live 8 Russia
Live 8 South Africa
Live 8 UK - London
Live 8 USA