Original subtitles

(crowd cheering loudly)

(richard skinner): It's 12 noon in london,

7 am in philadelphia.

And around the world, it's time for live aid.

- The size of this, the enormity of this,

Hadn't struck me.

♪ and here we go

- An industry that's notoriously selfish

Did something for someone else.

♪ we're rockin' all over the world ♪

- 32 million human beings

Dying of hunger in a world of surplus food.

♪ and we're goin' today

♪ here we go

- I stepped back and said, "he's barking mad."

- Wembley, will you please welcome america to live aid day.

- I didn't know enough that it was impossible.

- To be honest, it seemed a hair-brained scheme.

It seemed like this could never happen.

- We just packed a few bangers into our set.

- I was singin' my face off, honey.

♪ rockin' all over the world

- It was unique. It saved lives.

- It began a journey for all of us,

From what you might call charity,

To what you might call justice.

- Hyde park welcomes the world to live aid.

♪ well it was twenty years ago today ♪

(geldof): Charity will give you,

In the space of a week,

$120 million.

Politics, in the space of one day,

Will give you billions.

- As I said to bob,

I'll do the politics, you do the public.

- There's nothing more compassionate than helping

People who were condemned to death, live.

- You can't change the world with a concept,

But you can plant a seed.

(crowd cheering)

- For all the defaults

Or the misplaced steps, it worked.

♪ sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band ♪

(crowd cheering)

(train rumbling)

(crowd murmuring)

- At live aid,

Most of us just thought, oh yeah, you know,

We've got the money,

You know, give it to the people who don't have any,

And then the problems go away.

And of course, they don't.

(crowd cheering)

That was the journey from charity to justice, right there.

We don't have to send in our money.

We've just got to stop

Asking starving people

To give back the money our governments lent them

Plus interest. That's kinda it.

(crowd cheering)

But the banks won't cancel the debts

Unless the politicians tell the banks to do that.

And the politicians won't tell the banks

Unless we tell them to do that.

So, that's why I'm here. Are you with me?

(crowd cheering)

Are you?!

Live aid raised 200 million,

Or something like that.

That's what the african continent is paying

Every week in debt service.

- The knee on the neck of the poor in africa was debt.

You're a small country.

You're producing relatively little.

Everything you produce, the money goes to pay

The richest countries in the world.

- Shouldn't we be offering these struggling economies

Across the world a brand new start

By lifting that debt burden from them?

(tense music)

(reporter 1): These rock stars are part of an initiative

That aims to have the rich nations of the world

Cancel third world debt.

It's ambitious,

But they have friends in high places.

- This is mr. Bono,

Who is a singer,

And who has really supported the campaign in a big way.

(reporter 2): The pope offered his full support to the group,

Which included bob geldof.

- Bono and I

Are really good friends

And very close.

He wants to give the world a great big hug,

And I want to punch its lights out, you know?

(drummond): I had the fortune of working with bob geldof

And bono.

We had a lot of momentum on debt cancellation in 2000

And 2001, but we had not completed the job.

- So, it's very easy for me to time travel back

To the early 2000s

And what was happening

With hiv/aids on the continent of africa,

Because it was about to undo everything on debt cancellation.

(people murmuring)

We've witnessed it first-hand.

♪ I have run

♪ I have crawled

♪ I have scaled

You're looking around. You think,

Oh god, you know,

A third of these people are going to die.

(reporter 3): Two million people died in africa

Last year from the aids virus.

36 million people worldwide are infected

And 25 million,

Or 70 percent of those infected live in africa.

- In my country,

We are running out of place to bury people.

In urban centers, as a result

Of the number of people that were dying

From hiv/aids.

- There had to be some emergency response to that

By the world, and we thought, well,

Should we try to start an organization

And really take on the aids thing?

(bono): Bob geldof comes up with data as an acronym.

The three biggest challenges

To the continent of africa:

Debt, aids, and trade.

- I just thought, great,

We've now got this body of actual developmental experts.

♪ the heart is a bloom

And bono, by this time,

He was a global mega superstar. I wasn't.

♪ don't let it get away

♪ beautiful day

Frankly, you know, u2 dominated american rock'n'roll,

So just the sales alone give you access.

♪ teach me love ♪

- I became aware of bono

And his, at the time, it was called data organization,

A few months into the, the bush presidency.

- They were asking for bono to have a meeting

With condoleezza rice.

- Good morning.

- I said I would present it to her.

I myself was a bit skeptical about that.

- Jendayi frazer came in and she said,

"bono, do you know who that is?"

And I said, "uh, yes, I'm a huge fan of u2.

I would love to meet bono."

I think she was a little surprised.

- It was very weird for the national security advisor

To meet a pop star.

Bono came talking about the facts.

He came with a very substantive policy agenda.

- My goal always was to know more than the staff,

And bono, to his great credit,

Really took to that.

He was like, yeah, I'm going to know more than them.

- I figured out quite quickly that this was

A serious, serious man.

He wanted to talk about the commitment

Of the international community to the aids pandemic.

- This was 6,000 africans dying every day

Of a preventable, treatable disease.

Concerning hiv.

But they don't have to.

If that population was anywhere else,

There is a treatment,

And we just have to get it affordable and accessible.

- And he wanted to talk about the possibility

Of us leadership in taking on that challenge.

(bono): As unappealing as it was to u2's audience

Having their singer hang out with a republican,

It was just as much

A bad photo op for them.

♪ only to be with you

- I was a little bit worried about bringing bono

In to see the president.

- Josh is briefing me.

You know you'll stand here. You'll say bono this, bono that.

I said, "I got it, josh. I got it."

And he's leaving the oval office

And he turns over his shoulder and said,

"you do know who bono is, don't you?"

And I said, "yeah, he married cher."

(laughs)

- And I turned around and I looked at his face

And I could not tell whether he was kidding.

And I said, "no, that's sonny bono, who is dead."

- And in comes the great star bono.

♪ still haven't found what I'm looking for ♪

(george w. Bush): He surprised me by giving me a bible.

I think there's a way if he really wanted

To share with me a, a part of his being.

- I knew he was a man of faith

And I thought he might enjoy

This ancient irish bible.

- Well, he made the case about people dying of aids.

I had campaigned and told people

The guiding principle of my administration

Was all life is precious

And we're all god's children.

(bono): I asked george bush, "is there a hierarchy to sin?"

He gave me the best answer anyone ever gave me. He said,

"ah, the sin of omission?"

The sin of omission.

- Well, the sin of omission would be to say

I'm not going to do it 'cause I'm too busy,

Or 'cause you know, whatever.

And we'll let all those people die.

- I'm being informed that there's a pandemic

Destroying an entire generation of people

On the continent of africa,

And at the time that I'm the president of the,

Which I consider the most generous nation in the world,

And we're doing nothing about it.

It struck my heart.

(♪ with or without you by u2 playing)

- A year passed from that fateful day

When bono met president bush

And, and I assume bono was wondering,

Okay, what's happening with aids relief?

And the president had decided

That he wanted to do it in his state of the union.

- I asked the congress to commit $15 billion

Over the next five years,

Including nearly $10 billion in new money

To turn the tide against aids in the most afflicted nations

Of africa and the caribbean.

(all clapping)

(bush): We caught a lot of people by surprise.

And there are isolationist elements at the time,

Not nearly as significant as they are today,

Where people say, why the hell we going to spend money over

In africa when we got bridge problems here?

Or road problems in my state?

- Bono got george bush to get $15 billion

To black people who don't vote, who have aids.

- Pepfar, the president's emergency plan for aids relief,

Is the largest health intervention

In the history of health interventions.

It has saved 26 million lives.

- The fundamental question for americans,

Is that our national interest?

I decided it was, of course.

I think a great nation

Also should be a compassionate nation.

♪ with or without you

(rice): President bush had made his commitment,

And now what was the rest of the world going to say?

(tense music)

(blair): The uk was going to host g8 summit in 2005.

G8 summits, they're useful for leaders to come together

And talk about things, but they don't have big consequence.

(blair): I was very determined that we should try and make

This g8 summit in 2005 a meaningful summit.

We were going to try to do huge things,

Particularly on africa.

But it had to be more than just about an act of charity.

I thought there was a chance

Because we had formed

This commission that bob asked us to do.

- The commission for africa report

Set out the broad agenda.

It kind of created the road map,

Or, as tony blair called it, the bible,

For what he finally wanted at the g8 meeting

In gleneagles.

(reporter 4): The plan for africa is radical,

Including a 100 percent cancellation of debt,

Doubling aid to £26 billion a year in the first instance,

And removing unfair trade barriers.

(geldof): I'd sworn to the prime minister

That I would do the public

If he implemented the commission for africa.

Which was the cancellation of debt to the poorest

And a doubling of aid.

- I thought that I could be a good bridge between

The complexity of the commission for africa

And the simplicity of what the public might respond to.

Okay, well, we'll ask about that.

Myself and bob spoke often

And we believed that we could come up

With an interesting campaign,

Which is a campaign that turned into make poverty history.

(geldof speaking indistinctly)

(crowd cheering)

(curtis): Then we had this opportunity for nelson mandela

To launch it.

(mandela): Millions of people

In the world's poorest countries,

They are trapped in the prism of poverty.

It is time to set them free.

- Mandela's presence was to bring a very strong

African leadership to it,

And my presence was to say we are organizing globally.

A conversation broke out about "celebrocracy"

Which is the domination of public space by celebrities.

But blunt truth is,

We had access to people in power,

But nothing like what

The celebrities were able to deliver.

(curtis): It seemed to me that if the make poverty history

Campaign could have a second live aid,

That it might be possible to make it something

Which was noisy and popular and famous,

And therefore, more effective.

- I can't over dramatize

How much of a refusenik I was.

I was not going to do this.

Then bono,

Who knows me very well,

Came and said...

- Imagine paul mccartney.

♪ twenty 20 years ago today

♪ sgt. Pepper taught the band to play ♪

- It was 20 years ago today.

Walking on stage.

Paul mccartney.

And u2.

And I went...

'cause he had me.

- Then he got a sense that it might be magnificent,

And he came up with live 8,

In other words, do a concert in each of the g8 countries.

So, I had an office with a spare sofa

And a very tolerant staff.

(geldof): Hello.

(curtis): Bob always had his phone on speaker,

Which meant that you could hear

Every conversation he ever had.

And he talks very loud in order to convince people.

- Did I have to call all these people again?

The embarrassment of it, you have no idea.

It's not as if, "hey pete, it's bob."

Or "madge, it's geldof again." it's not. It's like...

Mick?

It's bob.

(jagger): Hi, bob. - I'm here to haunt you.

(jagger): Good. - If you're not there,

There's someone missing.

There's someone missing, and the missing one is you.

(jagger): Well, I really appreciate that.

Um... Let me think about it, bob.

(audience clapping)

(reporter 5): Bob geldof walked into a london hotel today

To do what he had promised never to do,

Stage another concert like live aid.

Some of music's biggest artists have been signed up,

From coldplay to madonna to paul mccartney.

- July the 2nd isn't the end of our 20-year trek,

It's the beginning of the final leg.

What live aid did joyously, enthusiastically,

Was open up the avenues of possibility.

Finally, live 8 invites you to walk down them.

- Live 8 was born out of a famine trying to raise money.

And this was trying to deal with the large politics

And how the eight most powerful men in the world

At that moment could change the structures on debt

And trade and aid, not just adding a little bit

Of money to the pot.

- When was the last g8?

When did you ever read about it?

When, what was the agenda?

And did you know the leaders had even gone?

And when they came back, did the press question them? No.

(geldof): A million people on the streets

Of every capital city.

That was my plan,

And was called live 8, 8, 8, everywhere.

- Well, the live 8 concerts intended to call attention

To poverty in africa are beginning

Around the world today.

Nbc's michelle kosinski is in philadelphia,

The only us concert site. Good morning, michelle.

- Good morning, amy. And it is a beautiful morning

In downtown philadelphia. We're still a couple hours

Away from showtime, but you can see people are screaming.

Many of them have been here since before dawn.

This is a sequel to live aid in philadelphia, 1985.

Now he's back in the same t-shirt.

- We're just here to let the world know

That, that we do care.

(crowd cheering)

- It's great when the musicians can get together,

All together like this,

And do it for the cause of poverty.

- Live 8 concerts are going to be taking place

On four continents. Let's go to london right now,

Live to hyde park.

- I feel like I won the assignment lottery

This weekend. This is definitely the place to be.

- Everybody here is not only here for the music,

But they're here just to show that we, as a nation,

Are committed to ending poverty.

(crowd cheering)

- Just the start of live 8.

U2, we're in our dressing room.

We closed the door. Have this prayer thing.

Our manager, dennis sheehan, god rest his soul,

Is our, he knows nobody can come in,

In that moment, it's private moments.

(knocking)

Don't answer the door.

Finish the prayer.

I ask dennis, I said, "what was that at the door?"

He said. "oh, that was, um...

That was sir paul mccartney."

I said "paul mccartney? Oh, god!"

Ran out. I go, "paul!"

He said, "what were you doin'?

What were you doin'?"

I said, "we just have little prayer moments, you know.

One of those prayer moments."

"why didn't you ask me?

I mean, if you asked me, I'd love to part of that."

He said, "have it again, with me."

(bono): It was the most poetic prayer.

And then we went on stage.

(crowd cheering deafeningly)

(♪ sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band ♪ plays)

♪ well it was twenty years ago today ♪

♪ sgt. Pepper taught the band to play ♪

♪ they've been going in and out of style ♪

♪ but they're guaranteed to raise a smile ♪

♪ so let me introduce to you

♪ the act you've known for all these years ♪

♪ sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band, yeah ♪

- And they went on stage

And we opened the show with a fanfare.

And there it was, 20 years ago today.

That was a stroke of genius.

♪ we're sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band ♪

♪ we hope you will enjoy the show ♪

♪ we're sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band ♪

♪ sit back and let the evening go ♪

♪ sgt. Pepper's lonely

♪ sgt. Pepper's lonely

♪ sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band ♪

(crowd cheering)

- They're taking a little break here as they get ready

For coldplay.

Of course, the purpose behind this all

Is asking the g8 leaders who are meeting in scotland

Next week, alex, to forgive africa's debt

And to pledge more money towards fighting famine there.

(mc): So now make some noise for another

Of the finest bands, coldplay.

(crowd cheering)

♪ in my place, in my place

♪ were lines that I couldn't change ♪

♪ I was lost, oh yeah

♪ yeah

♪ how long must you wait for it ♪

♪ yeah

♪ how long must you wait for it ♪

♪ for it

- As we heard, the names of who was going to be

Performing in the london concert,

People were getting concerned that actually

They were not seeing african names.

- Will it alter

The politics of the g8

To have genius african musicians on? No.

Will it force the g8 to do what we ask? No.

- We all consistently disagreed with bob on this,

Myself, and bono.

It was clear that, you know,

There should be more african representation

In live 8.

And there was a great african musician,

Youssou n'dour. He did perform.

I wish his voice had been heard more.

(rhythmic music)

(singing in foreign language)

- We did our best to make it more involving of...

African acts.

And failed.

We fucked up.

- Africa! Unite!

- Hi, everybody. I want to say hello to philadelphia,

Welcome america to live 8. Here's will smith.

(cheering continues)

(smith): Philly!!

Now, the reason that millions of you have tuned in

Is because every three seconds,

In one of the poorest countries in the world,

A child dies as a result of extreme poverty.

Now we can forgive debt,

But we cannot forget that right now,

A child in africa dies every three seconds.

Please watch this.

(fingers snap)

(geldof): The click campaign

Was a way of making

The horror of the thing

Immediately accessible.

(fingers snap)

Dead.

- Let me see your hands all over the world.

Let these world leaders know.

(geldof): If you were a politician

Sitting in gleneagles

And the screen splits up to the world all going click,

You're gonna go, ah.

And if I was a political advisor,

I'd say, prime minister, mr. President,

Can I just show you this, you know?

(smith): Thank you for being a part of live 8.

(crowd cheering)

- I know for us, we're the young generation

And a lot of young people look up to us,

So we actually, one of the reasons we're here

Is to take advantage of the celebrity.

And we've been involved with a lot of different charities.

But this one is close to home

Because we've been to africa

And we've seen the children.

♪ say my name

(beyoncé): So, anything we can do to help, we're here.

Sing the song.

♪ I know you say that I am assuming things ♪

♪ something's going down, that's the way it seems ♪

♪ shouldn't be no reason why you're acting strange ♪

♪ if nobody's holding you back from me ♪

♪ 'cause I know how you usually do ♪

♪ when you saying everything to me times two ♪

♪ why can't you just tell the truth ♪

♪ if somebody's there, then tell me who, oh ♪

♪ say my name

(geldof): You see, the difference between

'85 and '05.

In '85, we had tina,

Patti labelle, teddy pendergrass.

But it wasn't michael jackson. It wasn't stevie wonder.

(beyoncé): How y'all doing over here?

(geldof): At live 8, we had destiny's child, beyoncé.

Jay-z.

(smith): Woo! (geldof): Will smith.

♪ here it is the groove slightly transformed ♪

♪ just a bit of a break from the norm ♪

♪ just a little somethin' to break the monotony ♪

♪ of all that hardcore that has gotten to be ♪

♪ summer, summertime

♪ it's the summer, summer, summertime ♪

♪ time to sit back and unwind

♪ it's the summer, summer, summertime, sing ♪

♪ summer, summer, summertime

♪ it's the summer, summer, summertime ♪

- There are gigs going on all over the world,

So let's see what's happening in paris.

This was the chateau de versailles, I believe.

(crowd cheering)

(speaking french)

- This is moscow. Tokyo.

(cheering continues)

This is canada.

A huge gathering there in berlin.

In rome we have a band performing called the nek.

(indistinct shouting)

- There was wall to wall great acts.

You were great. That's shan.

- Did you get a call from bob?

- Um, I got a letter from bob. - A letter?

- Yeah, cause um, bob doesn't have my phone number.

- I wrote to her

And I got back a very madge letter.

It wasn't "dear bob". It said, "so..."

(laughs)

- So I just said,

"exactly what is it you're doing?

Are you fundraising?"

"no." "well, what are you doing?"

"we're consciousness raising."

"but consciousness raising for what?"

- What's going on? How is this going to work? Really?

- And then he, you know, did elaborate on,

About the g8.

- It noodled around in her head.

- And then I thought twice about what it's all about,

And the pressure that it's going to put on the world leaders

Who are meeting in three days

To decide whether to remove debts.

That's the most important thing.

(geldof): Madonna became emblematic

Of the whole adventure of live aid

Through to live 8.

And symbols are so important.

(geldof): See this little girl?

She had 10 minutes to live 20 years ago,

And because we did a concert in this city

And in philadelphia,

And all of you came,

Last week, she did her agricultural exams

In the school she goes to

In the northern ethiopian highlands.

She's here tonight. This little girl.

(crowd cheering)

Birhan.

Don't let them tell us that this doesn't work.

(speaking foreign language)

(cheering) - ladies and gentlemen,

From one immensely strong woman to another,

The queen bee of rock'n'roll, madonna!

(harmonizing vocals)

(♪ like a prayer by madonna plays)

♪ ooh, ooh, ooh

♪ life is a mystery

♪ everyone must stand alone

♪ I hear you

(geldof): Madonna, this healthy,

Beautiful, talented woman

On stage with this infant.

Who had seconds to live, 20 years ago.

If anything

Could have told the journey of band aid,

It was this image.

♪ when you call my name

♪ it's like a little prayer

♪ I'm down on my knees

♪ I want to take you there

♪ just like a prayer

♪ you know I'll take you there

(crowd cheering)

- Sting, what numbers will you be doing tonight?

- I'm doing exactly the same songs I sang 20 years ago.

- Really? - I'm doing message in a bottle

And every breath you take.

And every breath you take, they've asked me to change

The lyrics slightly.

And behind me, I'll have my new backing group

Which will be the eight g8 leaders.

(laughs)

♪ ooh, ooh

♪ oh, every breath you take

♪ and every move you make

- We'd be watching you. That's, that's what the song

Became about that day.

Surveillance, the other day.

♪ we'll be watching you

♪ this time we'll see

♪ if our democracy

♪ is just a game you play

♪ no matter what we say

(sting): You can't change the world with a song,

Or even a concert,

But you can plant a seed.

If you plant a seed in a young mind

About fairness, about human rights,

About the nature of governments,

That seed can bear fruit, and it does.

♪ every single day

♪ every word you say

(crowd cheering)

♪ yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, oh ♪

(crowd cheering)

- This was less the arse hanging out your trousers

Sort of thing, you know, this was more pa-pam! You know.

Pink floyd said, "okay, we're going to get back together."

And of course, the pink floyd would never insist

On going after paul mccartney,

The most successful songwriter in history.

(crowd cheering)

♪ na, na, na, na, na, na, na

♪ na, na, na, na

♪ hey jude

♪ come on everybody, don't keep me waiting ♪

♪ na, na, na, na, na, na, na

♪ na, na, na, na

♪ hey jude

- Ah, we hope you're gonna hear us.

We hope you're going to hear us.

♪ na, na, na, na, na, na, na

♪ na, na, na, na

♪ hey jude, yeah

(crowd cheering)

♪ ah, ooh, ooh ♪

- Pop and politics at this point

Had blended almost seamlessly.

(bagpipe skirls)

We now move on to gleneagles.

(♪ hail to the chief playing)

(bono): You get to gleneagles,

Where a character like president bush

Is more than bemused

At the sight of myself and bob running around.

(bush): I didn't have any clue who geldof was.

Yeah, he and bono came in.

Bono, at least somewhat presentable.

Geldof looked like he, you know,

Crawled out from underneath the ground.

But he was a good guy. He cared deeply.

I'm sure I insisted upon the picture to prove

I actually met geldof. (laughs)

(blair): We hadn't got the africa deal

Before the summit began.

It wasn't across the line,

And there was still quite a lot of opposition to it.

- The americans had a strategy

For a while that the,

That the top issue that would get agreed at gleneagles

Would be debt cancellation,

And we wanted a doubling of aid for africa as well.

- There was no relationship the president had

Around the world that was closer

Than the one he had with tony blair.

He made it very clear that this summit

Had to be a success for the prime minister.

- The meeting started,

But it had only been going,

I suppose 15, 20 minutes or so

When news began to come in.

(reporter 6): In the last few minutes,

We've been getting reports of an explosion

Between liverpool street and aldgate stations in london.

(blair): I remembered jonathan coming in and telling me,

"we don't know exactly what's happened,

But we think it's a terrorist attack."

- The prime minister was quite shaken by the news

That he had heard, and he shared it

With the other leaders. President bush spoke up first.

- Told blair, "get down to london.

You don't need to... We can handle our own up here,

You know. Get down there and do your job."

(reporter 7): There were at least six explosions,

The home secretary has just confirmed.

(geldof): I remember just looking and being a bit confused

By this.

Being horrified by the bombs.

We thought, that's it.

This g8 is going to be cancelled.

- With tony blair gone,

The question was, well, what happened to the g8?

And they agreed, well, the g8 must go on.

- It could have all fractured.

One of those leaders could have taken advantage of it.

It was a maximum moment of risk.

(helicopter blades thumping)

- After the terrorist attacks,

Tony blair came back from london, exhausted.

- In a strange way, because of the 7/7 bombings,

The summit suddenly took on a completely new

Appearance of being also,

In part, a... A stand against terrorism.

- As a believer that us influence for peace

Is important, and one way to encourage the peace

Is to help nations struggling underneath,

You know, the burden of debt.

- What had been really hanging in the balance

In terms of getting the commitment, it came through.

We did it with all the leaders standing there,

Signing up to it.

With the african leaders in attendance.

(blair): It was definitely the most extraordinary weekend

I had in my time as prime minister.

It was a...

Probably one of the last moments

Of truly global solidarity

That I can remember.

(reporter 8): The figures agreed sound immense,

$50 billion extra in aid for the developing world

By 2010, $25 billion of that for africa.

A number of the ngos in this area are saying that

2010 is too late,

That the money is needed more urgently in africa now.

- I'm afraid you just did, this is a natural

Course of events, you get fed up

With the parts of, parts of the ngo community

Because whatever you do, it's never enough.

(reporter 9): Disappointment with the deal

And some of its famous backers

Came to a head later in the afternoon.

- The fact that aid was delayed 'til 2010

Meant there's a lot of room for wriggle out, right?

Because five years, people have forgotten,

The context has changed.

Our reading is that the g8 has listened,

But their response has not been a roar, but a whisper.

I do my, "people roared and g8 whispered,"

And then bob takes the thing and goes...

- When did 10 million people alive become a whisper?

- This is how many lives will be saved as a result

Of this aid money, which will come five years later.

(bono): It was very, very intense moments.

I'm just thinking we're advancing our cause.

A mountain has been climbed.

And only to reveal higher peaks, for sure,

On the other side of it.

But it's worth just stopping for a second

And looking back

Down the valley at where we've all come.

Doubling aid to africa has not been easy.

♪ it's christmas time

♪ there's no time to be afraid

♪ at christmas time

♪ we let in light and we banish shade ♪

♪ and in our world of plenty

♪ we can spread a smile of joy

♪ throw your arms around the world ♪

♪ at christmas time

(ure): It was something extraordinary

In the proper sense of extraordinary.

♪ pray for the other ones

Generationally, it still lives on.

Not just live aid, but band aid, the whole thing.

♪ it's hard but when you're having fun ♪

- Are you having fun?

♪ well tonight thank god it's them instead of you ♪

- I think there were very many good people

With good intentions that were involved

Both with live aid and live 8.

♪ the greatest gift they'll get this year ♪

I think that there was not enough sensitivity

To understanding

That it's not right for a bunch of

Predominantly white male folks

To get together and say, we're going to frame

A continent like this.

- What bob, and bono, and others have done

Over the years has resulted in,

I don't know, probably millions of people living,

Who otherwise would have died.

I don't think there's any remote ideological argument

That should stand in the way of that.

- Sing it to the world!

♪ feed the world

- 20th anniversary was just a convergence

Of good fortune

And good actors on the world stage.

♪ let them know that springtime is coming ♪

(bono): What's happening now in politics means

This anniversary could be a funeral

For the last 40 years.

♪ let them now it's christmas time again ♪

(geldof): What I love is that younger people say,

I'm not going to do it like they did it.

And they're right, 'cause I don't think that'll work.

But I can utilize this new stuff I've got,

To do something weird, and mad, and wild.

And if that's what we leave behind,

Then that's what I'd love to be the parting shot.

♪ let's them know it's christmas time again ♪

(geldof): There you go. That's the end of our show.

You've been a fantastic audience.

Thank you and good night. Over to you, philadelphia.

(skinner): It's been a fantastic day.

Thank you. Thank you.

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