Live 8 Concert

...Live 8 Philadelphia USA. Keith Urban and Rob Thomas at Live 8

Now available for pre-order is the long awaited Live 8 Concert DVD video. Including extensive footage of the US Live 8 Philadelphia concert.

This box set of four DVDs will feature the best selection of music and video footage from each of the concerts. Because of the enormous popularity of the Live 8 concerts, this DVD is expected to go down in history as the largest selling music video of all time.

Live 8 Music

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The G8

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Nelson Mandela Speech

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Live 8 London Concert

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Live 8 Canada Toronto
Concert

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US Live 8: Philadelphia review (cont.)

Keith Urban and Rob Thomas at Live 8

Actress Naomi Watts takes the stage to introduce the next country act, Keith Urban. It takes me a couple of seconds to recognize her. She was in that scary movie The Ring and 21 Grams. Keith Urban, is one of the four country superstars chosen to play Live 8 today. (The others are Tim McGraw and Faith Hill who play at Live 8 Rome) The scruffy Keith Urban; wearing a simple white t-shirt with the word Poverty with a circle slashing through it starts in with "Days Go By". He slows things down a bit by taking the acoustic guitar and doing "You'll Think Of Me". He next pleases the audience with a Phil Collins cover titled "Another Day In Paradise". Keith completes his set with "Somebody Like You". He doesn't look too much like a country star. Actually he reminds me a bit of how Bryan Adams used to look.

Actor Jimmy Smits introduces Rob Thomas. Rob took the Live 8 Philly stage wearing a Nelson Mandela T-shirt. (A lot of the musicians today seemed to be shopping at the same store. The shirt bares the number 46664, which was Nelson's number during his incarceration) Rob started up with "Something To Be", and then did "Lonely No More". Just like Maroon 5, Rob Thomas did a nice job of moving between tempos. He sat on stage playing small white keyboard for "3am"(probably Matchbox 20's biggest hit). This is nice slow track that he handled with solid vocals backed by backing singers. The crowd especially enjoyed his insertion of a couple of lines from Steve Millers song Space Cowboy during this song. Thomas ended up a high note with "This Is How A Heart Breaks". My favorite track was "Lonely No More". For some reason he kind of reminds me a little of George Michael.

Live 8 US, Philadelphia (continue review)

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Live 8 London, UK :: Live 8 Philadelphia, USA :: Live 8 Toronto (Barrie),CA