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Live 8 at Eden - Africa Calling

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Here is the full track listing from the Live8 DVD as listed for Europe. It is listed as a 4 Disc PAL DVD, so this MAY VARY FROM THE U.S. RELEASE.

Packaging: Fold-out Digipack in slipcase (12-page booklet)
Picture: 16:9/Colour
Audio: DTS 5.1 Surround Sound; Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound and Dolby Stereo
Subtitles: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish (on spoken word sections)
ICPN 0094634166898
ICPN 0094634198295


DISC 1
Paul McCartney & U2 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
U2 - Beautiful Day
U2 - Vertigo
U2 - One
Coldplay - In My Place
Coldplay with Richard Ashcroft - Bittersweet Symphony
Coldplay - Fix You
Elton John - The Bitch Is Back
Elton John - Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting
Elton John with Pete Doherty - Children Of The Revolution
Dido & Youssou N'Dour - 7 Seconds
Stereophonics - Bartender And The Thief
REM - Everybody Hurts
REM - Man On The Moon
Ms Dynamite - Dy-Na-Mi-Tee
Keane - Somewhere Only We Know
Black Eyed Peas - Where Is The Love
Black Eyed Peas - Let's Get It Started
Black Eyed Peas with Stephen Marley - Get Up Stand Up
Duran Duran - Wild Boys ( Rome)
Bob Geldof - I Don't Like Mondays
Muse - Time Is Running Out ( Paris)
Travis - Sing
Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot
Kaiser Chiefs - Everyday I Love You Less And Less
UB40 with Hunterz & The Dohl Blasters - Reasons
UB40 - Red Red Wine
Green Day - American Idiot ( Berlin)
Snoop Dogg - Signs
Snoop Dogg - Who Am I (What's My Name)?
Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer
Annie Lennox - Why
Annie Lennox - Sweet Dreams

DISC 2
Destiny's Child - Survivor
Destiny's Child - Girl
Razorlight - Somewhere Else
Razorlight - Golden Touch
Bryan Adams - All For Love
Kanye West - Diamonds From Sierra Leone
CBC Ethiopian Famine Film
Madonna - Like A Prayer
Madonna - Ray Of Light
Madonna - Music
Will Smith - Getting' Jiggy Wit It
Will Smith - Switch
Will Smith - The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air
Brian Wilson - Good Vibrations ( Berlin)
Snow Patrol - Run
Toby Keith - Stays In Mexico
The Killers - All These Things That I've Done
Dave Matthews Band - American Baby
Daniel Powter - Bad Day
Linkin Park - In The End
Linkin Park with Jay-Z - Numb
Joss Stone - Super Duper Love
Joss Stone - Some Kind Of Wonderful
Jars Of Clay - Show You Love
Scissor Sisters - Laura
Scissor Sisters - Take Your Mama
Alicia Keys - For All We Know
Velvet Revolver - Fall To Pieces
Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me
Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl?
Sarah McLachlan & Josh Groban - Angel
Sting - Message In A Bottle
Sting - Driven To Tears
Sting - Every Breath You Take

DISC 3
Mariah Carey - Make It Happen
Mariah Carey - Hero
Vusi Mahlasela - When You Come Back ( Johannesburg)
Roxy Music - Do The Strand ( Berlin)
Maroon 5 - This Love
Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved
Neil Young - Four Strong Winds ( Toronto)
Pet Shop Boys - Go West ( Moscow)
Robbie Williams - We Will Rock You
Robbie Williams - Let Me Entertain You
Robbie Williams - Feel
Robbie Williams - Angels
Keith Urban - Somebody Like You
Placebo - Twenty Years ( Paris)
Rob Thomas - Lonely No More
Faithless - We Come 1 ( Berlin)
Stevie Wonder - Master Blaster (Jammin')
Stevie Wonder & Rob Thomas - Higher Ground
Stevie Wonder & Adam Levine - Signed Sealed Delivered
Stevie Wonder - So What The Fuss/Superstition
The Who - Who Are You?
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
Pink Floyd - Speak To Me
Pink Floyd - Breathe
Pink Floyd - Money
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Paul McCartney - Get Back
Paul McCartney & George Michael - Drive My Car
Paul McCartney - Helter Skelter
Paul McCartney - The Long And Winding Road
Finale - Hey Jude

DISC 4 EXTRAS
EDINBURGH CONCERT
The Walk to Edinburgh - Highland Fling
The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
Wet Wet Wet - Love Is All Around
1 Giant Leap - My Culture
George Clooney
Annie Lennox - Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves
Bono
Nelson Mandela
Bob Geldof - The Great Song Of Indifference
The Thrills - Santa Cruz (You're Not That Far)
Herbert Gronemeyer & Claudia Schiffer
Midge Ure & Eddie Izzard - Vienna
Texas - Say What You Want
Katherine Jenkins - Nessun Dorma
Travis - Why Does It Always Rain On Me?
James Brown - I Got You (I Feel Good)
James Brown & Will Young - Papa's Got A Brand New Bag
Bob Geldof, Bono, Midge Ure
Murrayfield crowd - Flower Of Scotland
McFly - All About You (Live 8 Tokyo)
Good Charlotte - Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous (Live 8 Tokyo)
Dreams Come True - Love Love Love (Live 8 Tokyo)
Bjork - All Is Full Of Love (Live 8 Tokyo)
Tim McGraw - Live Like You Were Dying (Live 8 Roma)
Faith Hill - Breathe (Live 8 Roma)
Shakira - Whenever, Wherever (Live 8 Paris)
Audioslave - Black Hole Sun (Live 8 Berlin)
Audioslave - Like A Stone (Live 8 Berlin)
"Who Are You?" Film - The Who
"Why Does It Always Rain On Me?" film - Travis
Ricky Gervais - Enjoy the day
Backstage at Hyde Park
Pink Floyd rehearsal and interview footage

Track listing of Roma Concert:

1. Zucchero - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime
2. Zucchero - Overdose d'amore
3. Zucchero - Diavolo in me
4. Planet Funk - Ultraviolet Days
5. Planet Funk - Stop Me
6. Planet Funk - The Switch
7. Negrita - Rotolando verso sud
8. Negrita - Cambio
9. Max Pezzali - La dura legge del goal
10. Max Pezzali - Come mai
11. Max Pezzali - Hanno ucciso l'uomo ragno
12. Alex Britti - Gelido
13. Cesare Cremonini - Padremadre
14. Cesare Cremonini - 50 Special 15. Nek - Almento stavolta
16. Nek - Si io non avessi te
17. Nek - Lascia che io sia
18. Piero Pelù - Io ci sarò
19. Piero Pelù - Bomba bommerang
20. Piero Pelù - Laciodrom
21. Piero Pelù - Woda woda
22. Fiorella Mannoia - Mio Fratello che guard ail mondo
23. Povia - I bambini fanno oh
24. Povia - Fiore fiore
25. Jovanotti - Mani libere
26. Jovanotti - L'ombelico del mondo

This might be worth getting for Deep Purple alone.

1. Tom Cochrane - Life Is A Highway
2. Sam Roberts - Bridge To Nowhere
3. Bryan Adams - Run To You
4. Bryan Adams - This Side Of Paradise
5. DobaCaracol - Nakile
6. K'naan (appearing with Dobacaracol) - Until The Lions Learn too Speak
7. Simple Plan - Shut Up
8. Simple Plan - Welcome To My Life
9. Bruce Cockburn - If I Had A Rocket Launcher
10.Les Trois Accords - Turbo Sympathique
11.Randy Bachman - Takin' Care Of Business
12.Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
13.Deep Purple - Hush / African Guitar Summit
14.Mwembo / Great Big Sea - Donkey Riding
15.Blue Rodeo - Try
16.Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind
17.Our Lady Peace - Innocent
18.Jet - Cold Heart Bitch
19.Jet - Look What You've Done
20.Jann Arden - Good Mother
21.Mötley Crüe - Dr. Feelgood
22.The Tragically Hip - Ahead By A Century
23.The Tragically Hip - Poets
24.D.M.C. Featuring Eagle-Eye Cherry & members Of Aerosmith - alk This Way
25.Barenaked Ladies - Brian Wilson
26.Neil Young - And God Made Me
27.Neil Young + All Star Ensemble - Rockin' In The Free World

Here's the full track listing of Berlin concert:
(Personally, I would buy this for A-Ha and Chris De Burgh.)

1. Die Toten Hosen - Wünsch Dir was
2. Die Toten Hosen - Steh auf, wenn Du am Boden bist
3. Wir sind Helden - Nur ein Wort
4. Wir sind Helden - Denkmal
5. Söhne Mannheims - Babylon System
6. BAP - Verdamp lang her
7. Audioslave - Killing In The Name Of
8. Juli - Perfekte Welle
9. Green Day - Holiday
10. Green Day - We Are The Champions
11. Silbermond - Zeit für Optimisten
12. Chris De Burgh - Lady In Red
13. Brian Wilson - Califonia Girls
14. Brian Wilson - Good Vibration
15. Renee Olstead - My Baby Cares For Me
16. Sasha - Turn It Into Something Special
17. A-HA - Take On Me
18. Daniel Powter - Bad Day
19. Joana Zimmer - I Believe (Give A Little Bit)
20. Juan Diego Florez - You'll Never Walk Alone
21. Reamonn - Hallelujah
22. Reamonn - Alright
23. Roxy Music - Love Is the Drug
24. Faithless - Mass Destruction
25. Faithless - We Come 1
26. Herbert Grönemeyer - Mensch
27. Herbert Grönemeyer - Bleibt alles anders
28. Herbert Grönemeyer - Flugzeuge im Bauch
29. Herbert Grönemeyer - Heimat
30. Herbert Grönemeyer - Bochum
31. "Who Are You?" Film - The Who
32. "Why Does It Always Rain On Me?" Film - Travis
33. "Parade of Champions"

Track listing of Paris Concert:

1. Alphy Blondy - Bsweet Fanta Diallo
2. Passi - Reviens dans ma vie
3. Faudel - Je veux vivre
4. Magic System - Bouger bouger
5. Muse - Hysteria
6. Muse - Bliss
7. Amel Bent - Ma philosophie
8. Matt Pokora - Elle me contrôle 9. KYO - Contact
10. KYO - Qui je suis
11. Yannick Noah - Métisse
12. Yannick Noah & Disiz La Peste - La voix des sages
13. Tina Arena - Aller plus haut
14. Andrea Bocelli - The Prayer
15. Shakira - Whenever, Wherever
16. Raphael - Caravane
17. Raphael - Ne partons pas fachés
18. Diam's - Suzy 2003
19. Craig David - All The Way
20. Axelle Red - J'ai fait un rêve
21. Calogero - Prendre racine
22. Calogero & Passi - Face à la mer
23. David Hallyday - My Sharona 24. Louis Bertignac - Cendrillon
25. Axelle Red + Cerrone - Supernature
26. Florent Pagny - Una Nube Blanca
27. Placebo - Bitter End
28. Placebo - 20 Years
29. Zucchero - Il volo
30. Zucchero - Il diavolo in me
31. The Cure - One Hundred Years
32. Youssou N'Dour - New Africa
33. Youssou N'Dour - Lima Weesu

Goosebumps moments:
- Paul McCartney with U2 in doing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band live for the first time ever with some faux Beatles in Pepper outfits playing french horns
- U2's set including their version of Unchained Melody
- Coldplay bringing out Richard Ashcroft to sing Bittersweet Symphony
- Black Eyed Peas with Stephan and Rita Marley to sing Get up Stand Up
- Kanye West backed by a Sting section
- Dido joined by Youssou N'Dour during Thank You
- The opening to Dave Matthews Band's Dreamgirl
- Robbie Williams singing Angels they way it supposed to - without Jessica Simpson
- Green Day covering Queen's We Are the Champions
- Stevie Wonder and Adam Levane of Maroon 5 doing a duet on Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
- Pink Floyd whole set, extra Goosebumps at the beginning of each song
- Maroon 5 covering Neil Young's Rockin in the Free World
- Alicia Keys' tribute to Luther Vandross
- Jay-Z backed by Linkin Park who did a faithful Public Service Announcement

Tear Jerkers:
- Bob Geldolf bring out an African Girl who, at the time of Live Aid, was only given ten seconds to live
- Annie Lennox playing Why over a montage of AIDS victims
- The finale in London with everyone singing Hey Jude with Paul McCartney

Other interesting tidbits:
- Snoop Dogg was able to get 5 F-bombs pass the MTV censors (and the N-word once). Granted he mumbles some and they weren't part of the song. The bigger slip was they Pink Floyd let the blatant word in Pink Floyd's Money or maybe they let it slip because it Floyd.
- Beyoncé wore a skirt that was as short as it could have been without showing off her Kootchiepop.
- I was a little disappointed that no one pulled a Phil Collins this year.
- The only American acts in Rome - Tim McGraw & Faith Hill?
- UB40 were introduced saying they were going to perform a medley of their hits. Shouldn't it been a medley of other people's hits?
- Who invited Randy Jackson? I had to laugh when I spotted him playing a tiny keyboard when Mariah Carey already had two keyboarders on stage with two large keyboards themselves.
- What was up with Stevie Wonder's moustache/beard thing around his mouth? Who let him out of the house like that?
- There were a lot of lyric changes to reflect the festivities including U2, Sting but my favorite was Kanye West switch the line in Jesus Walks into, "And George Bush gets paid off of all of that."
- When I saw you could download Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club from the concert on iTunes, I thought the whole concert would be available, but alas the only other song available (for now hopefully) was The Long and Winding Road. Click on the links to get them for yourselves.

I watched Live 8 on TV & on the internet. I could not wait until this DVD set came out. I bought it the day it came out. They did a great job with the DVD's, the video & sound are great & the fact that it has a 5.1 DTS sound setting is great for my entertainment center.
The lineup is also great. I heard some bands that I have never even heard of that I am now a fan of.
The best part is of course PINK FLOYD's awesome set. I could not believe what I was seeing when I first saw it live & now to see it with the great sound quality is just amazing. They are one of the few bands that had every one of their songs on the DVD. I have been telling people that it is 2 1/2 DVD's of great opening bands for PINK FLOYD.
My only complaint is that they did not have Green Days cover of Queens "We are the champions". I felt that they did a great job with that cover & it should of been on the DVD. I did not let this change my rating though, it is still a great DVD that I think any rock fan should definitely own.

...and this DVD does a hell of a job capturing my own experience.


Some other things that would have been cool to include:

U2 singing Unchained Melody
Not censoring Bono during Vertigo
More Dido (Thank You and White Flag)
More Keane
More Killers (although, they only sang one song - general complaint.)
A better angle for the workup to Floyd taking the stage


Some really cool things they could have included:

The *entire* audience in Hyde Park singing along to Bon Jovi's simulcast from Philly

Pink Floyd's soundcheck from the night before - Floyd fans - oh my god, that was amazing to hear. We watched through tiny holes in the huge metal wall (fitting...) surrounding the field and a host of other people climbed trees to get a better view. It was a full rehearsal with the video screens, lights, smoke the works. All the workers dropped what they were doing and were watching Floyd. It was awesome to hear that music rolling across a basically empty Hyde Park and looking at the smiles on everyone's face.

They should have included some more video of the crowd before the show and maybe stuff from around London.

Interviews with the artists backstage would have broken up the jarring artist to artist transitions.


In terms of video and sound quality - it's better than I expected. I dont have surround, so I can't comment on that mix. If it was up to me, they would have had a 12 disc set capturing every second of that day - but I understand this isn't practical.

Buy, buy, buy this DVD! Great cause and a great concert.

Note: I give it a 4 only because I'm comparing it to my experience. Concert videos never really capture it...

This memo is right off the official Live 8 DVD website and explains what will be on the US/Canadian version. The memo refers to it as the Canadian DVD but Canada and US are both region 1 for DVD so it's the same DVD set. I hope this clears up any confusion.

THE GREATEST SHOWS ON EARTH TO BE RELEASED ON DVD

EMI Are Proud To Announce The DVD Release Of Live 8 On Tuesday, November 8, 2005 In Canada

On November 8 the biggest live event DVD project of its kind will be released. The Live 8 DVD brings together performances from the amazing series of concerts which took place around the world on July 2, 2005.

Live 8 One Day One Concert One World

The 4-disc set contains three discs of live footage taken from the Live 8 shows staged in London and Philadelphia alongside key highlights from the seven other events staged across the world. Every artist who performed at Londons Hyde Park and Philadelphias Museum Of Art appear on the DVD, many of them with their full sets.

It was 20 years ago today The Live 8 DVD opens with U2 and Paul McCartneys crowd-rousing rendition of Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band and also features Pink Floyds historical reunion, Robbie Williamss show-stopping performance and Madonnas breathtakingly energetic set. Younger artists such as Snow Patrol, The Killers and Joss Stone comfortably intertwine with rock n roll legends such as The Who and Sting. One-off duets come from Paul McCartney and George Michael, Stevie Wonder and Adam Levine (Maroon 5), Elton John and Pete Doherty and Coldplay and Richard Ashcroft.

Disc 3 closes as the London concert closed on July 2 with the stars of Live 8 Hyde Park taking to the stage for the stunning Hey Jude finale.

Philadelphia also hosted incredible performances from amazing superstars such as Destinys Child, Bon Jovi, Black Eyed Peas, Sarah McLachlan with Josh Groban and soul legend Stevie Wonder.

Also threaded through the UK and US acts are performances from artists who appeared at the Live 8 concerts in the Toronto area, Rome, Paris, Berlin, Johannesburg and Moscow. Tracks from Green Day, Brian Wilson and Roxy Music in Berlin and Neil Young, Bryan Adams and Jet in Toronto are included along with the Pet Shop Boys in Moscow, Duran Duran in Rome, Vusi Mahlasela in Johannesburg and Placebo and Muse in Paris.

Disc 4 features exclusive extras including a never-before-seen backstage documentary filmed at Hyde Park, Pink Floyds Live 8 reunion rehearsal, more acts from Live 8s global concerts including McFly and Bjork in Tokyo, films by The Who and Travis and a contribution from Ricky Gervais.

The special features section will offer highlights from Edinburghs Final Push concert at Murrayfield on July 6 which will include performances from James Brown, Travis and The Proclaimers.

Single disc sets for the Canadian, French, German and Italian Live 8 concerts have also been produced. These will focus further on each countrys concert and will be available globally.

I hope this will be the biggest selling DVD of all time. It deserves to be. More importantly perhaps, it should be, for it will help us achieve our goal of changing the lives of the extreme poor for the better and making our generation the one that helped end the disgrace of poverty, says Live 8 organiser Sir Bob Geldof.

Money raised from sales of the Live 8 DVD will go to the Band Aid Trust for the relief of hunger and poverty in Africa.

Live 8 was held on 2 July 2005. Nine simultaneous, free concerts starring the cream of international rock and pop artists were staged in London, Paris, Toronto, Berlin, Rome, Tokyo, Moscow, Johannesburg and Philadelphia. The concerts acted as a starting point for The Long Walk To Justice in support of the Make Poverty History and Global Call To Action campaigns and was timed to focus attention on the critical decisions made by the G8 summit four days later.

Youre such a lovely audience, wed like to take you home with us sang Bono. Now the million-strong live audience and 5 billion viewers around the world can take Live 8 home with them

One of the things that seems to have been missed with people's reviews is the Fact that on the Rear it's listed as being 4x3 FS. But, it always was & IS in fact 16x9 anamorphic.

How can the Packaging be so wrong ? I'm in Australia & even the Region 4 packaging is listed the same. So, I'm guessing whoever was responsible for the Artwork ( Which is the same worldwide )Got it wrong.

I Hope this is something people want to know - Having watched it on Digital TV, I knew it was filmed in Widescreen.

Other Reviewers have mentioned How great the sound & picture Quality is, so I don't need to enhance their reviews.