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List Price: $35.98 | | Label: Emd Int'l
Salesrank: 149783
Released: November 15, 2005 |
| Our Price: $12.62 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Includes Zucchero, Planet Funk, Tiromancino, Alex Britti, Cesare Cremonini,Jovanotti and other regional and international artists
Description of Live 8 - Roma:
Two decades years after Live Aid addressed the issue, lethally oppressive poverty in Africa remains a blight on the planet. Thus, in the Summer of 2005 activist Bob Geldof staged an even more ambitious series of continent-spanning concerts dedicated to raising funds and public consciousness about international debt relief. This expansive four-disc chronicles those shows in one of the most ambitious concert documents ever attempted, capturing all of the highlights (and a few complete artist sets) of concerts in London, Philadelphia, Toronto, Paris, Berlin and Moscow. Underscoring the events' sense of unity, the performances here span both generations and genres, offering veteran rock fans often muscular sets by Elton John (including a woozy take on T. Rex's "Children of the Revolution" with Baby Shambles' Pete Doherty), The Who, Sting (who sharply reprises a trio of Police favorites) and the ubiquitous Paul McCartney. But the highlight of the Jurassic set's contributions are a reunion of Roger Waters and his long-estranged Pink Floyd bandmates on a sonically flawless five-song whirl through highlights of Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall; footage of their rehearsal for the show is contained on the set's equally eclectic fourth disc of bonus materials. But there are highlights here for nearly every taste, be they a fine sampling of contemporary UK and Australian rockers ( Coldplay, Jet, Razorlight and especially blistering performances by Stereophonics and Kaiser Chiefs), a little hip-hop nostalgia (a joyous Will Smith and Jazzy Jeff leading what seems half of his Philly hometown in a goofy singalong of the "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" theme); showy turns by pop-meister Robbie Williams and chateuses Mariah Carey, a rousing set by Black Eyed Peas (featuring Rita and Stephen Marley on a cover of "Get Up Stand Up"). Other one-off duets include Coldplay and Richard Ashcroft doing a fine version of the latter's "Bittersweet Symphony," Stevie Wonder with Rob Thomas ("Higher Ground") and Adam Levine ("Signed Sealed Delivered"), a tender take on "Angel" by Sarah McLachlan and Josh Groban and McCartney and George Michael taking an upbeat turn via "Drive My Car," before Macca closes out the London show by leading its various participants in an obligatory singalong of "Hey Jude." Royalties from sales of the set will go to the Band Aid Trust for the relief of hunger and poverty in Africa. --Jerry McCulley
Live 8 - Roma Reviews:
A good collection 
2009-06-19 - With the plethora of acts on the DVD, it's hard to buy this and be disappointed. Almost all genres of modern music are present, with "pop" and metal acts conspicuously absent for whatever reason. So whether you like The Who, Dave Matthews Band or Jay-Z, there is something here for you.
My one complaint, as someone who was there, was that the song selection puzzled me. Not only was a significant portion of it presented out of order, but a lot of the bigger names, such as Linkin Park or Neil Youn, who did half-hour or 45-minute sets only have one song included while smaller acts get almost their entire set included, and several venues are woefully underrepresented - either shoved in the back as an "extra" or having one or two songs make the cut.
This is a great collection, don't get me wrong. But to really do this concert justice, it needed at least another disc of content.
Pink Floyd & Live 8 
2008-11-27 - If for no other reason, buy this DVD set while you can. It contains the last time the original members of Pink Floyd played together since the early 80's.
Now with the passing of Richard Wright they will never be a concert with the Original Line up (I'm not counting Syd)
Floyd songs are:
Speak to Me / Breath
Money
Wish You Were Here
Comfortably Numb
Disc 4 has a mini documentary of Pink Floyd reheresing for the concert.
This is a must for all Pink Floyd fans
Awesome transaction!
2008-01-14 - Great service from the seller! DVD and packaging in excellent shape. And, the content was much better than I expected. I bought this for the Pink Floyd reunion and got that and so much more. The quality of the DVD is amazing and the backstage footage is fun - it would be nice to have had more of that, though. It's a phenomonal collection and I'm really glad I purchased it. Thank you, Amazon!
Amazing
2007-11-30 - Loved most of it...some of the acts don't do anything for me but the ones that do are great.
A decent release for what it is 
2007-11-21 - This is a 4-DVD set, which takes some of the performances from most of the Live 8 venues. Performances by a number of the "big names" who performed at the nine Live 8 venues appear here (there's about 10 hours of material). This is a good set for a starter, to get a good cross-section of the artists and venues. However, DVDs have been issued for at least some of the individual venues; so if you're more interested in getting a whole DVD of one of the venues, it's worth checking to see if the venue you want has been issued individually.
