Pink Floyd to reunite for Live 8 concert

Associated Press | June 12, 2005

[HAL9000]

LONDON - Organizers of the London Live 8 concert said Sunday that the original members of the British rock band Pink Floyd would perform at the July event for the first time in more than two decades.

Guitarist David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason, bass player Roger Waters and keyboard player Richard Wright have not performed on stage together since 1981.

The group, which achieved major success with their 1973 album "Dark Side Of The Moon," will join musical acts including Elton John, Madonna, Paul McCartney and Coldplay at the anti-poverty concert in Hyde Park on July 2.

"Like most people I want to do everything I can to persuade the G-8 leaders to make huge commitments to the relief of poverty and increased aid to the third world," Gilmour said.

"It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations."

Waters, the group's founder, split with the rest of the band after a falling-out in the 1980s.

"Any squabbles Roger and the band have had in the past are so petty in this context, and if re-forming for this concert will help focus attention then it's going to be worthwhile," Gilmour said.

[rollo tomasi]

I would see PF again with or without Waters, I pay to hear them play, especially Gilmore. As to their own beliefs they are free to shout them no matter how idiotic they sound but I can't hold my fingers on the keyboard when people level unfair criticism at Americans. I just wish someone in the press would challenge statements like Gilmore's so real discussions and actions (Not playing a benefit for African kleptocrats who will use food as a leverage on their people)can occur.

This whole Live 8 stuff is just to put pressure on the G8 whose bureaucratic mess along with the all those alphabet agencies, add more harm. Put it plainly, Live 8 sounds like a plea to bilk the taxpayers. I much prefer it to be strictly give what you please.

"We don't want people's money. We want them," Bob Geldof

Who funds the governments composed of the G8 Bob?

[af_vet_rr]

If some people had their way I wouldn't be reading, listening to, buying, or eating anything that wasn't approved by them. Maybe we should stop buying anything where any employee, no matter how minor, disagrees with us.

As to seeing PF again, I'd go too.

If we stopped buying or using anything that involved the labor of individuals we didn't agree with, we'd all be wearing fur, raising our own crops, walking everwhere, and living in sod houses on the praire. We'd also be bored out of our minds, and start thinking about throwing ourselves off of a cliff somewhere.

[WyCoKsRepublican]

Nothing more than a coninuation of shaking down the US. Well, right now I'm gonna have another Sam Adams Lager, for those of you that don't have a Sam Adams, too bad, I'm not sharing..........

[WyCoKsRepublican]

I have no problem with Pink Floyd donating a portion of their roayalties to helf the down-trodden and less fortunate. Just more liberal double speak........a concert to make themselves feel good about themselves. After the concert, it's back to FantasyLand.........Besides, I never liked Pink Floyd much anyway.........regardless, "leave us kids alone."..........

[HankReardon]

I suspect Gilmour is speaking of how much money the United States government is contributing after forceablely confiscating the money from the American people. The American people are the most generous in the world and give an immense amount to contribute to ending world hunger on their own.

How much of any donated money, food stuff and medecine is taken by the corrupt governments of these nations before it gets to the needy? That is what needs addressed.

What these nations need is an unabated capatilistic system and to be governed by honorable people.

Gilmour is just another entertainer who is down on America and liable to say anything stupid in his attacks against America.

[HankReardon]

Isn't this called "being an easy mark"?

You cannot gift someone out of poverty.

[af_vet_rr]

I have no problem with Pink Floyd donating a portion of their roayalties to helf the down-trodden and less fortunate.

If they went on tour for a couple of years, charged $100 a seat, and played in any city with over 200,000 people, and then donated the money to the poor, they'd have the whole poverty thing licked fairly quickly.