Why We'll Never Work with Bob Again ; After All the Celebrity Backslapping at Live8, the Charity Workers Behind the Scenes Now Believe Their Cause Was Hijacked and Little Really Achieved
Evening Standard - London › September 13, 2005
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IT WAS, said Chris Martin, lead singer of Coldplay, "the greatest thing that's probably been organised ever in the history of the world". Bob Geldof famously proclaimed it "mission accomplished".
But little more than two months after the brief euphoria-bubble of Live8, and the G8 summit of world leaders at Gleneagles that followed, there are deep concerns over whether the event actually accomplished anything much at all - and a growing consensus that it must never, ever be allowed to happen like that again.See the full content of this document
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Why We'll Never Work with Bob Again ; After All the Celebrity Backslapping at Live8, the Charity Workers Behind the Scenes Now Believe Their Cause Was Hijacked and Little Really Achieved
The Standard has learned that Make Poverty History, the white- wristband charity coalition promoted by Live8, is to reduce dramatically its involvement with celebrities after what one senior source described as the "mistake" of working with Bono, Sir Bob and the filmmaker Richard Curtis.
"We got our fingers burned," the source told the Standard. "They were saying things th...See the full content of this document
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