Did anybody see this? It just ended on the East Coast. I saw Annie Lennox, U2 and then Queen came out and did We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions with Anastacia. She did a good job w/ it. I thought see would Mariah carey all over it but she didn't. The concert looked huge and really cool. The audience was really into it.
Thanks for the heads up..they are replaying this at 1:00 am in the respective time zones. There are some really nice performances by U2 and the Eurthmycs...and the others....catch it if you can..
What channel?? I've obviously missed the viewings so far but I can keep an eye out. I'm in Canada but I have a U.S. satellite. Cliff
The full concert was some 5 hours (almost) with African acts and pop stars. The Empty-V broadcast was atleast here 1 hour 30 minutes (-commercials) and they left out the main part of the Queenless (May & Taylor) set (medley) and so forth. Full show setlist was. Beyonce - Baby Boy Beyonce - Crazy In Love Beyonce - Dangerously In Love Bob Geldof - Speech Bob Geldof - Redemption Song Roger Taylor, Brian May, Dave Stewart -Say It's Not True [Acoustic] Paul Oakenfold - Starry Eyed Surprise Paul Oakenfold & 6 African Drummers - Ready Steady Go Baaba Maal - Accepelo Baayo Baaba Maal - Baayo Ext Yousour N'dour - Africa Remembers Peter Gabriel (With Yusaf Islam) - Wild World Peter Gabriel (With Youssou N'dour/Angelique Kidjo) - In Your Eyes Peter Gabriel (With Yousou N'dour) - Biko Bono / Edge / Beyonce/Dave Stewart - American Prayer Bono / Dave Stewart (With Abdel/Youssou And Choir) - 46664 Long Walk To Freedom Nelson Mandela - Speech Queenless - Invincible Hope/46664-The Call/The Show Must Go On (vocals on TSMGO by Chris Thompson, Zoe Nicholas and Treana Morris, additional drums by Eric Singer on most Queenless tracks) Angelique Kidjo - Afrika Yvonne Chaka Chaka - Umqombothi Bongo Maffin - The Way Johnny Clegg - Asimbonanga Jimmy Cliff/Johnny Clegg - People Jimmy Cliff - Many Rivers To Cross Jimmy Cliff - I Can See Clearly Now Corrs - Breathless Corrs (w Roger Taylor on drums) - Toss The Feathers Ladysmith (With The Corrs) - Lelilungelo Ngelakiko Ladysmith - Homeless Brian May /Andrea Corr - Is This The World We Created Abdel Wright - Lose We Now Danny K - Hurt So Bad Watershed - Indigo Girl Bob Geldof - What So Funny About Peace Love And Understanding Zucchero (With Roger Taylor, Brian May, Sharon Corr On Violin) - Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Eurythmics & Yousou N'dour - 7 Seconds Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams Ms Dynamite - It Takes More Ms Dynamite - Don’t Throw Your Life Away Bono/Edge - One/Unchained Melody Queenless / Bono/ Anastacia / Dave Stewart/Andrews Bonsu - Amandla Queenless /Zucchero/Tandy - Medley (Bo Rhap (No Vox, I Want It All/Break Free/Radio Ga Ga) Queenless / Anastacia - We Will Rock You Queenless / Anastacia And Cast And African Drummers We Are The Champions Choir - 46664 Chant Average show. In my humble opinion. And the MTV edits are way below average... :S
The show is being repeated throughout today and tomorrow on MTV, MTV2, and VH1. It can also be seen in streaming video at Nelson Mandela's site: http://www.46664.com/ I agree about the MTV editing and too many commericals - but hey, at least they ran some commercials for Trojan condoms! As to the performances, some were better than others. Honestly I thought Beyonce really kicked it, and the Brian May /Andrea Corr duet was nice too. Seeing Peter Gabriel perform 'Biko' in South Africa for the first time, with a full African chorus no less, was very moving. But the concert did succeed on imparting information, I had no idea that life expectancy in much of sub-Sahran Africa has plummeted from an average of 60 years to about 30 years just in the last decade because of the AIDS pandemic