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CHEERING

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Have a look at this,
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ROCK MUSIC

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We don't have to send in our money.

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We've just got to stop asking
starving people...

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..to give back the money
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plus interest.

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That's about it.

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CHEERING

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Sounds good.

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But the banks won't cancel the debts

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unless the politicians
tell the banks to do that.

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And the politicians
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unless we tell them to do that.

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So that's why I'm here.

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Are you with me?

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CHEERING

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Are you?

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ARCHIVE: It's 12 noon in London,

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7am in Philadelphia.

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And around the world
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40 years ago, music brought
the world together

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to fight a famine in Ethiopia.

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We could be heroes...

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32 million human beings dying of
hunger in a world of surplus food.

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And it's this simple thing
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It all began with a song.

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The most remarkable number one ever.
It sold a million in a week.

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Well, that's more than any other
record in the history of music.

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It inspired Live Aid, one of the
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To be honest, it seemed
a harebrained scheme.

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It seemed like
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I remember the stadium shaking.

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I was singing my face off, honey.

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It was 20 years ago today
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20 years on, Live 8 challenged

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the leaders of the world's
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to address the causes of poverty
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People were saying, "Why the hell
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problems in my state?

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I said to Bob, "I'll do
the politics, you do the public."

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Nothing can ever repair
the damage colonisation,

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slavery did.

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Nothing.

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But this was demonstrating
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This is the story of how a pop song
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that secured tens of billions
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You can't change the world
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but you can plant a seed.

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Sergeant Pepper's
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2003,

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I'm back in Ethiopia.

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NEWS: 20 years ago, he formed
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in famine relief. Now he's back to
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a country where 12 million people
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I go to visit an orphanage,

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and I see these children

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whose parents have died

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because of no food.

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It annoys me to tears
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I go ballistic at this point,
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"Get me Downing Street!"

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We were in Evian

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for the G8 summit, hosted by Chirac.

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And an urgent message came
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Number 10 switchboard,

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that Bob Geldof
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Fortunately, I was next to Tony,

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and these things could happen there
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Kate handed me the phone,
said, "It's Bob."

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and, as ever with Bob,
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I remember shouting,
"It's happening again!"

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He just said, "Look, the situation
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"It's gone off the agenda.

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"We've got to see how we revive..."

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So I got a meeting
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and dying of no hope
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until we get to the nub
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we remove debt from the poorest
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So, the issue of Africa's debt
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because a lot of countries
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they were ever going to be able
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without devastating their country.

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It was stunting their growth,

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it was making them unable
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a commission

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that's been asked to eliminate debt.

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I said,
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"because African leaders
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deeply popular, except for Iraq -

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and he's going to chair the G8.

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He said, "All right, let's do it."

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I wouldn't have reacted in
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with his track record,
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and therefore it made sense.

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NEWS: So today, Sir Bob Geldof
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Hilary Benn,
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a Commission for Africa.

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the Commission for Africa,

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so he was driving the political
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It's almost like a report card
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who became animated and activated
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a subject that was nowhere on the
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I think there were 17 members.

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You had African politicians,
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but you also had
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NEWS: Tonight, Mr Blair arrived in
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for a meeting
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The African Commission,
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well, actually, Tony Blair,
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to cast himself as some saviour.

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When I come and see
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and see what could happen,

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there is at least one noble cause
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And it's here, on this continent.

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After the meeting
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a Sun journalist said that
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the symbol of the crisis and famine

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in '85.

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So the request was,
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which, of course,
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and she had a great presence
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Tony - you know, he had
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you know this sort of expression
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And, you know,
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Tony talked about the impact
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I mean, in politics you don't
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..think, "Well, that was good
that we did that. That was good."

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because many people didn't survive,
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it was possible to do something.

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The UK was going to host
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for leaders to come together

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and talk about things,
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that we should try and make this
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particularly on Africa.

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The key to everything about getting
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To begin with at least, I think
he thought it was a bit crazy.

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We should be talking about
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and then get out of town
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Good morning, Tony.

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How are you?

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I told the people here that
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is to check in with my friend
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that we are able to talk today.

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Because the relationship was
a very close relationship and...

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You know, there are...
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with how close it was
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we were in constant conversation
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because we had formed
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that Bob had asked us to do.

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Bob was "effing this"
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even with presidents
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And Bono had this kind
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and knew how to kind of appeal
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The heart is a bloom

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It shoots up through stony ground

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Bono and I are REALLY good friends
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By this time, he was a global
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Don't let it get away

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It's a beautiful day

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Touch me, touch me...

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and I want to punch its lights out.

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Live Aid -
it began a journey for all of us,

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a lot of people on that stage,

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from what you might call charity

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to what you might call justice.

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I don't believe anything like that
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..without Bob.

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I had the fortune of working with,
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We had a lot of momentum on
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NEWS: The United Nations says
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have HIV or Aids, and 3 million
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80% of them in Africa.

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was about to undo everything.

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..what more could we do
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The organisation we founded
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Data.org.

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Debt. Aids. And trade.

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and his - at the time it was
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a few months
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He's right. We were rinky-dink.

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That's correct, actually.

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I think it's true.

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But that was, if I can say so,
the genius of the strategy.

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So we're not coming in here
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I said, "Bono will never sing
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"Not Happy Birthday, not "how are
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Nothing.

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They were asking for Bono to have
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I said I would present it to her.

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I myself
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Sister Frazer came in
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"Bono - do you know who that is?"

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I would love to meet Bono."

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I think she was a little surprised.

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It was very weird

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for the National Security Advisor
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Bono came talking about the facts.

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He came with a very substantive
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than the staff.

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And Bono, to his great credit,
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He was like, "Yeah,
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that Bono wanted
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in taking on that challenge.

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every day

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of a preventable treatable disease
concerning HIV.

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But they don't have to.

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If that population was anywhere
else, there is a treatment.

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And we just have
to get it affordable

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I was a little bit worried
about bringing Bono in

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to see the President.

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The President, his tastes go toward
country music,

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not toward rock music.

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The President did not do
that sort of thing often,

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would be using

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the White House platform to advance
their own celebrity.

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And so Josh is briefing me,

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you know, you'll stand here, you'll
say to Bono this, Bono that.

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I said, "I got it, Josh. I got it."

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he turns over his shoulder and said,

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"You do know who Bono is,
don't you?"

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And I said, "Yeah, he married Cher."

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And I turned around
and I looked at his face

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and I could not tell
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and I said, "No, that's Sonny Bono,
who is dead."

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And in comes the great star, Bono.

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He surprised me by giving me
a Bible.

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I don't think this was a way
to make me like him,

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I think it was a way
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a part of his being.

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I knew he was a man of faith

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and I thought he might enjoy
this ancient Irish Bible.

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The first 10 or 15 minutes of
the conversation

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between President Bush and Bono

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in the public sphere.

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Well, he made the case about people
dying of Aids.

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I had campaigned and told people

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a guiding principle of
my administration

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was all life is precious

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I asked George Bush,
"Is there a hierarchy to sin?"

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

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"Er, the sin of omission?"

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The sin of omission.

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Well, the sin of omission
would be to say,

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cos I'm too busy,

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"or cos, you know, whatever,

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"and we'll let all those people
the."

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

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an entire generation of people
on the continent of Africa,

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that I'm the President of...

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..which I consider the most generous
nation in the world,

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and we're doing nothing about it.

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It struck my heart.

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As unappealing as it was
to U2's audience,

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having their singer hang out
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it was just as much a bad photo op
for them.

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A year passed from that fateful day
when Bono met President Bush,

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and I assumed Bono was wondering,

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"OK, what's happening
with Aids relief?"

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And the President had decided
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in his State of the Union,

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which is the moment
when the biggest ideas come forward.

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I asked the Congress to commit

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$15 billion
over the next five years,

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including nearly $10 billion
in new money,

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in the most afflicted nations
of Africa and the Caribbean.

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Bono got George Bush

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to give $15 billion to black people

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who don't vote, who have Aids.

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I think a great nation also should
be a compassionate nation.

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helping people who are condemned

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to death live.

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Pepfar, the President's emergency
plan for Aids relief,

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is the largest health intervention
in the history

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of health interventions.

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Bono, he never stopped pushing,

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but he was also moving on
to other topics

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in development,
including debt relief.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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I've come because
Prime Minister Blair asked me -

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In the largest sense,

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I'm here because of a journey
that began in 1984, '85,

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with Band Aid and Live Aid.

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Live Aid raised

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200 million or something like that.

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That's what the African
continent's paying every week

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Shouldn't we be offering
these struggling economies

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across the world a brand-new start

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by lifting that debt burden
from them?

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That was the journey from charity
to justice right there.

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The Prime Minister's
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this can be a radical landmark.

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It will have to be...

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..if Bob Geldof has his way,

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and it is hard not to give
Bob Geldof his way, is it not?

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The Commission for Africa report
set out the broad agenda. It kind of

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created the road map, or
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of what he finally wanted
at the G8 meeting in Gleneagles.

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This thing here is so doable.

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NEWS: The plan for Africa
is radical,

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including a 100% cancellation
of debt,

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in the first instance,

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and removing unfair trade barriers
so that Africa can sell

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goods to the developed world.

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I said to Bob, you know,

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

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with those politics

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"by mobilising the public
in favour of this,

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"cos a lot of people are going to be
saying to me,

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" 'Why are you making all of this
commitment to Africa?' "

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I'd sworn to the Prime Minister

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if he implemented
the Commission for Africa...

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..which was the cancellation of debt
to the poorest

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and a doubling of aid.

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I thought that I could be
a good bridge between

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the complexity
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and the simplicity of what
the public might respond to.

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Myself and Bono and Bob spoke often

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and we believed that we could come
up with an interesting campaign,

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which was a campaign that turned
into Make Poverty History.

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launch, launch, and launch again.

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We just launched as many times
as we could.

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Then we had this opportunity
for Nelson Mandela

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to launch it again.

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Millions of people in the world's
poorest countries,

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of poverty.

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It is time to set them free.

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Mandela's presence was

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to bring a very strong African
leadership to it,

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and my presence was to say,

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"Well,
we're organising globally,"

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to it.

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Even that launch was heavy celebrity
focused, right?

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Of course, a conversation broke out
about celebrocracy,

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which is the domination
of public space by celebrities.

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that the blunt truth is

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we had access to people in power,

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but nothing like what the
celebrities were able to deliver.

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It seemed to me that if the
Make Poverty History campaign

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could have a...second Live Aid,

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then it might be possible to make it
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and popular and famous
and therefore more effective.

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I can't overdramatise
how much of a refusenik I was.

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I was not going to do this.

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Then Bono, who knows me very well,

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came and said...

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Imagine if Paul McCartney...

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Sergeant Pepper taught the band
to play...

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It WAS 20 years ago today.

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Live Aid was 20 years ago today.

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Walking onstage,

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Paul McCartney...

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..and U2.

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And I went...

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..cos he had me.

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that it might be magnificent.

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And he came up with Live 8,

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in other words do a concert
in each of the G8 countries.

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I call up Harvey.

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He goes, "We're not fucking doing it
again!"

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You know, so... And I said,

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"This time it's in eight places,"
you know?

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Well, I have,
15 times in the last week.

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He's an awkward bugger.

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If he wants something,
he doesn't stop.

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I had an office with a spare sofa

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and a very tolerant staff.

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on speaker,

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which meant that you could hear
every conversation he ever had,

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and he talks very loud
in order to convince people.

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Did I have to call all these people
again?

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<font color="
no idea how I have to steel myself.

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I sort of said,
"Hey, Pete, it's Bob."

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Or, "Madge, it's Geldof again."

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It's not. It's like...

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Mick?

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It's Bob.

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I'm here to haunt you.

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NEWS: Bob Geldof walked into

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what he had promised never to do,

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stage another concert
like Live Aid.

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Good morning.

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

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it's the beginning of the final leg.

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What Live Aid did joyously,
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was open up the avenues of
possibility.

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Finally, Live 8 invites you
to walk down them.

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When was the last G8?

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When did you ever read about it?

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When will...? What was the agenda?

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And did you know the leaders had
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And when they came back,
did the press question them?

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No.

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A million people on the streets

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of every capital city,

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that was my plan,

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so that the journalists were totally
focused

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and it was called Live 8.

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8, 8, everywhere.

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I get a call from the President of
the Nelson Mandela Foundation

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who says to me...

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.."Kumi,

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"Mandela is very upset

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"that there's no concert in Africa.

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"I mean, these guys are talking
about Africa, Africa, Africa

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"and there's nothing in Africa.
How can that be?"

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And the logic was, you know,
if we had something,

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even if it was smaller-scale than
the other eight concerts,

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at least Africa is not invisibilised

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and then you don't have
the white man saviour complex.

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"OK, I think we can
pull it off in Johannesburg."

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This global gig is going
to make itself heard.

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Shows will run
throughout today.

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They're intended to put pressure on
the leaders of the G8 countries

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to tackle global poverty.

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As many as 200,000 people

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are expected in Hyde Park in London.

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Everybody here's not only here
for the music,

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but they're just to show
that we, as a nation, are committed

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to ending poverty.

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CHEERING

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PRESENTER: It's two o'clock
in London

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on July the 2nd, 2005.

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Hyde Park welcomes the world

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to Live 8.

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Just the start of Live 8,

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U2, we're in our dressing room,

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we close the door,
have this prayer thing.

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Our manager, Dennis Sheehan,
God rest his soul,

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he knows nobody can come in
in that moment,

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HE KNOCKS ON TABLE

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Don't answer the door.

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Finish the prayer.

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I ask Dennis, I said,

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"What was that at the door?

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00:27:12,360 --> 00:27:14,520
He said, "Oh, that was, erm...

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"That was Sir Paul McCartney."

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I said, "Paul McCartney? Oh, God."

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Ran out.

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I go, "Paul!

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"So sorry."
He said, "What were you doing?

507
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:28,200
"What were you doing?"

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00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,480
I said, "We just have a little
prayer moment, you know?

509
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:32,040
"One of those prayer moments."

510
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:34,000
Why didn't you ask me? Why...?

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

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

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It was the most poetic prayer.

514
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:47,080
And then we went onstage.

516
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,280
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts
Club Band by The Beatles

517
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:06,240
Well, it was 20 years ago today

518
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,880
Sergeant Pepper taught the band
to play

519
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,200
They've been going in and out
of style

520
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:14,040
But they're guaranteed
to raise a smile

521
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,400
So let me introduce to you

522
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,360
The band you've known
for all these years

523
00:28:19,360 --> 00:28:24,320
Sergeant Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band...

524
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:28,760
They went onstage
and we opened the show

525
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:33,040
with a fanfare, and there it was
"20 years ago today"

526
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:42,040
We're Sergeant Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band<

527
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:45,920
We hope you will enjoy
The show...

528
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,360
As we heard the names of who was
going to be performing

529
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,160
in the London concert,

530
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,680
people were getting concerned that
actually they were not seeing

531
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:56,120
<font color="

532
00:28:56,120 --> 00:29:00,840
and it's not like Africa
as a continent is poor

533
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:02,200
in musical talent.

534
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:07,560
Will it alter the politics of the G8

535
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,920
to have genius African musicians on?

536
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:14,440
Will it force the G8
to do what we ask?

537
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:15,600
No.

538
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,640
I think we all consistently
disagreed with Bob on this,

539
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:20,360
myself and Bono.

540
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,120
It was clear that, you know,
<font color="

541
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:25,600
African representation in Live 8.

542
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,280
And there was a great
African musician, Youssou N'Dour.

543
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:31,840
He did perform. I wish his voice had
been heard more.

544
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:33,240
Thank you!

545
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:50,960
The ox is my horse

546
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:55,320
Don't guess it's blood you're talking about.
me

547
00:29:55,320 --> 00:30:02,080
<font color="
ak thi guinaw...

548
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:07,600
Youssou N'Dour was a key voice
in making the argument

549
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:11,800
that debt cancellation, for example,
should be done in such a way

550
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:15,040
as African citizens could keep
an eye on their leaders

551
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:17,760
<font color="
was spent.

552
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:21,080
So he was able to articulate
that nuanced point

553
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:25,080
in a way that it was very hard for,
you know, Irish rock stars to do.

554
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:28,640
Lots of racial feelings
which makes them despair

555
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:30,240
I want both hands open

556
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:33,360
<font color="
sorrows and their joy

557
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,600
So that they have information
who do not divide

558
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:38,760
Change...

559
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:46,880
We did our best to make it more
involving of African acts...

560
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,080
..and failed.

561
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:52,600
We fucked up.

563
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:56,600
Africa!

564
00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:00,840
<font color="

565
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:04,760
What we had that none of the other
concerts had,

566
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:10,040
we had the most moral,
ethical human being

567
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:13,600
who was going to be in Johannesburg,
and that was Nelson Mandela.

569
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:18,920
I am pleased...

570
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:22,320
<font color="

571
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:28,120
..to support Africa standing tall
against poverty...

572
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:31,280
..in concert...

573
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:35,040
..with Live 8.

574
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:37,600
CHEERING

575
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:41,920
Generations to come

576
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,720
will judge our leaders

577
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,360
by the decisions they make

578
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:49,240
in the coming weeks.

579
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,040
CHEERING

580
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:54,480
<font color="

581
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,200
Ms Dynamite!

582
00:31:58,080 --> 00:31:59,680
It's so beautiful to be here.

583
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,200
It's so beautiful to see
all of these beautiful faces

584
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:03,440
in front of me.

585
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:09,320
We, as a nation, have robbed,
killed,

586
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:13,120
stolen and tortured the Third World
<font color="

587
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,120
If there is a debt to be paid,

588
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,120
surely we're the ones that owe.

589
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,920
CHEERING

590
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:32,040
Old pirates, yes, they rob I

591
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:34,960
Sold I to the merchant ship

592
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:40,680
Minutes after they took I

593
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:44,000
From the bottomless pit

594
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:48,400
But my hand was made strong

595
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:52,120
By the hand of the Almighty

596
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:57,160
<font color="

597
00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:00,880
Triumphantly

598
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,960
So won't you help to sing

599
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:07,840
Redemption song?

600
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:11,000
What's going on?
Nothing's changed

601
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,120
We're still exploiting the poor

602
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:15,400
Slavery never ended, no

603
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,440
It just changed course

604
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,360
Aids and free trade

605
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,440
<font color="

606
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:25,320
Famine everywhere
but why never a shortage of guns?

607
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:27,440
Conflict all over the globe

608
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:29,760
It's dictated by our leaders

609
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:31,440
War in the motherland...

610
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:33,640
BOTH: But no African arms dealers

611
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:35,720
The West robbed the Third World

612
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:37,520
Of every single cent

613
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,640
Now there's Third World debt

614
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:41,720
How does that make sense?

615
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,800
Won't you help to sing

616
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,240
These songs of freedom?

617
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:52,240
Redemption song.

618
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,080
Thank you so much.

619
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,280
Well, thank you, Ms Dy-Na-Mi-Tee!

620
00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:59,440
JONATHAN ROSS: Well, I'm going
to hand you downstairs to Jo,

621
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,880
<font color="
with her. Jo?

622
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:03,720
Lenny, is there a lack today...?

623
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:06,440
I had to represent
so many black people today.

624
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:07,720
But was it a problem for you today?

625
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:09,920
Actually, what's been very,
very good is that

626
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,080
there's been more than you think,
actually.

627
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:13,600
<font color="

628
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:14,960
I've enjoyed it today.

629
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,280
There's always a criticism
about not being enough black acts.

630
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:21,360
I didn't care whether they were
black, brown, green or yellow.

631
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:22,920
If they were a big act,

632
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:27,120
and they were great,
<font color="

633
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:33,440
I want to say hello to Philadelphia.
Welcome, America, to Live 8!

635
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:39,640
And the reason that millions of you
have tuned in

636
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:42,040
is because every three seconds,

637
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:45,400
in one of the poorest countries
in the world,

638
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:49,560
<font color="
as a result of extreme poverty.

639
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:51,200
Please watch this.

640
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:59,000
The click campaign was a way
of making the reality,

641
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:00,800
the horror of the thing...

642
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:04,680
..immediately accessible.

643
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:06,120
CLICK

644
00:35:08,240 --> 00:35:09,480
Dead.

645
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:15,080
<font color="

646
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:16,640
Let me see your hands!

647
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:19,120
All over the world, here we go.

648
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:24,520
CLICKING

649
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,560
Let these world leaders know.

650
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,240
If you were a politician
sitting in Gleneagles

651
00:35:32,240 --> 00:35:35,840
and the screen splits up
to the world all going click,

652
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:37,760
<font color="

653
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:39,480
And if I was a political adviser,

654
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:41,320
I'd say,
"Prime Minister, Mr President,

655
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,840
"can I just show you this?"
You know?

656
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:48,080
Thank you for being
a part of Live 8.

658
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,520
I know for us
<font color="

659
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:54,520
and a lot of young people
look up to us,

660
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:56,680
so we actually,
one of the reasons we're here is

661
00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:58,600
to take advantage of the celebrity.

662
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:00,600
Say my name, say my name...

663
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,280
We've been to Africa
and we've seen the children,

664
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,720
<font color="
we're here.

665
00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:08,560
I know you say
that I am assuming things

666
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:10,160
Something's goin' down,
that's the way it seems

667
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:11,800
Shouldn't be no reason
why you're actin' strange

668
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:13,440
If nobody's holdin' you back
<font color="

669
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:15,280
Cos I know how you usually do

670
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,040
Where you're sayin' everything
to me times two

671
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:18,560
Why can't you just tell the truth?

672
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,160
If somebody's there
then tell me who...

673
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:25,760
You see, the difference
between '85 and '05.

674
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:28,280
<font color="

675
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:32,160
..Patti LaBelle,
Teddy Pendergrass,

676
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,440
but it wasn't Michael Jackson,
it wasn't Stevie Wonder.

677
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:36,520
At Live 8, we had Destiny's Child,

678
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,120
Beyonce, Will Smith, Jay-Z.

679
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:40,400
CHEERING

680
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,920
You know, they're spending billions
and billions of dollars

681
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:46,680
<font color="

682
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,840
We just spent billions and billions
of dollars to help people live,

683
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:51,680
and we appreciate all y'all help.

684
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,400
I don't want to get too political.
Let's play some music, man.

685
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,040
Come on!
Come on, Jay.

686
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:01,320
Who you know fresher than Hov?
Riddle me that

687
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,640
The rest of y'all know
where I'm lyrically at

688
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:05,200
Can't none of y'all mirror me back

689
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:07,880
Yeah, hearing me rap is like
hearing G Rap in his prime

690
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,280
I'm young HO,
rap's Grateful Dead

691
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,360
Back to take over the globe,
now break bread

692
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,720
I'm in Boeing jets, Global Express

693
00:37:14,720 --> 00:37:16,720
Out the country
but the Blueberry still connect

694
00:37:16,720 --> 00:37:18,040
<font color="

695
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:20,120
As I said, there are gigs going on
all over the world,

696
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:21,640
so let's see what's happening
in Paris.

697
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:23,400
It's with the Chateau de Versailles,
I believe.

698
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:28,040
CHEERING

699
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:29,840
Good evening, Paris!

700
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:34,800
How are you doing?

701
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:36,680
<font color="

702
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:38,080
This is Moscow.

703
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:41,400
Tokyo.

704
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,320
This is Canada.

705
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:45,320
Huge gathering there in Berlin.

706
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:49,200
In Rome, we have a band performing
called Nek.

707
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:50,520
Thank you!

708
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:53,440
Until next time.

709
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:56,840
Over 200,000 people have gathered
here today in London.

710
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,680
A worldwide audience we think
of in the region of

711
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:02,000
5 billion people

712
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:03,600
Hi.

713
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,920
<font color="
That's Jeanne, my missus.

714
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:07,520
Hello.
That's Tiger.

715
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:11,720
AS VOICEOVER: Madonna is not only
an avatar of the '80s,

716
00:38:11,720 --> 00:38:15,800
but became emblematic of the whole
adventure of Live Aid

717
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:17,080
through to Live 8.

718
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:25,400
See this little girl?

719
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:28,360
She had ten minutes to live
20 years ago.

720
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:32,720
And because we did a concert
in this city and in Philadelphia,

721
00:38:32,720 --> 00:38:34,640
and all of you came and...

722
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:38,000
Last week,
she did her agricultural exams

723
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:41,520
in the school she goes to in
the northern Ethiopian Highlands.

724
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:43,640
She's here tonight,
this little girl.

725
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:46,040
Birhan.

726
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:47,920
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

727
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:50,960
Don't let them tell us
that this doesn't work.

728
00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:01,280
Ladies and gentlemen,
from one immensely strong woman

729
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,920
to another,
the queen bee of rock and roll,

730
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:06,520
<font color="

731
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:26,400
Oooh...

732
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:37,120
Wow.

733
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:46,800
Life is a mystery

734
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:51,160
Everyone must stand alone...

735
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:57,840
Madonna, this healthy, beautiful,
talented woman onstage

736
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:03,360
with this infant who had seconds
to live 20 years ago.

737
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:07,280
If anything could have told
the journey of Band Aid,

738
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,040
it was this image.

739
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:14,480
When you call my name,
<font color="

740
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:16,280
I'm down on my knees...

741
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:28,000
Just like a prayer,
you know I'll take you there...

742
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:46,840
When you call my name,
it's like a little prayer

743
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:51,040
I'm down on my knees,
I wanna take you there...

744
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:54,960
Yeah, quite a lot.

745
00:40:56,720 --> 00:40:59,200
Well, Harvey's been stressed
for fucking weeks.

746
00:41:00,720 --> 00:41:02,280
<font color="

747
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:03,560
Can we go now?

748
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,080
One, two, three, four!

750
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:25,160
Every breath you take

751
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:29,520
And every move you make

752
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:33,240
Every bond you break,
every step you take

753
00:41:33,240 --> 00:41:35,040
I'll be watching you...

754
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:40,440
Spitting Image had used that song,
Every Breath You Take,

755
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:43,280
as the end song of one their shows,

756
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,640
and "we'll be watching you",

757
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:49,200
and it was all of the world leaders
were puppets.

758
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:50,760
We'll be watching you...

759
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:52,200
So I took that as my lead.

760
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:54,840
That's what the song
became about that day,

761
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:56,440
we'd be watching you.

762
00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:58,120
Surveillance the other way.

763
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,160
Democracy

764
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:03,800
This is the daily plan

765
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:08,720
No matter we say...

766
00:42:08,720 --> 00:42:11,880
You can't change the world
with a song,

767
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:13,720
or even a concert,

768
00:42:13,720 --> 00:42:15,760
but you can plant a seed.

769
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:18,960
If you plant a seed in a young mind

770
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:22,760
about fairness, about human rights,

771
00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:27,520
about the nature of governments,

772
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:29,440
that seed can bear fruit,

773
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:31,200
and it does.

774
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:32,840
Every single day

775
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:35,680
Every word you say

776
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:49,080
Yeah, oh-oh-oh-oh.

778
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:55,920
We did overrun.

779
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:57,840
It was a problem,

780
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:00,120
and I had to deal with

781
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,440
a platoon of policemen

782
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:05,120
marching towards the stage

783
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:09,720
at just about 15 minutes
before the official curfew time.

784
00:43:09,720 --> 00:43:11,720
And I was threatening them,
you know?

785
00:43:11,720 --> 00:43:14,600
"Pull the fucking plug."

786
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:17,520
They didn't quite understand

787
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:23,280
that the planet, 3.2 billion people,
were watching.

788
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:24,800
And they didn't care.

789
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:27,920
And I was going ape-wire,

790
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:30,800
I was so afraid
we wouldn't get to Paul.

791
00:43:32,240 --> 00:43:34,680
Someone found Tessa Jowell,

792
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:36,800
who was having a nice time
watching the show,

793
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:38,480
and dragged her backstage.

794
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,720
He came through the crowd

795
00:43:40,720 --> 00:43:44,240
and said to my kids,

796
00:43:44,240 --> 00:43:46,280
I need to borrow your mum.

797
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:47,840
<font color="

798
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,040
The Minister for Culture is coming.

799
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:53,960
I advise you to get your hand away
from that plug.

800
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:56,560
I didn't expect to be
on the front line

801
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:58,680
of whether or not
the concert carried on.

802
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:02,480
I simply said,
This is on my shoulders.

803
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:05,720
She said - very cold, very strict

804
00:44:05,720 --> 00:44:08,200
I am telling you now,

805
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:10,920
with the authority
of the Prime Minister...

806
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:16,320
that this concert finishes
appropriately.

807
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:17,640
Done.

808
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:21,200
Pop and politics at this point

809
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:24,200
had blended almost seamlessly.

810
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:31,160
Na-na-na, na-na-na-na... 

811
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:32,320
Come on!

812
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:35,920
Na-na-na, hey, Jude...

813
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:39,240
Come on, everybody,
don't keep me waiting!

814
00:44:39,240 --> 00:44:44,960
Na-na-na, na-na-na-na

815
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:50,080
Na-na-na-na, hey, Jude

816
00:44:51,720 --> 00:44:57,640
Na-na-na, na-na-na-na

817
00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:01,520
Na-na-na, hey, Jude...

818
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:03,880
Ah, we hope
you're going to hear us.

819
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:06,080
We hope you're going to hear us!

820
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:10,680
Na-na-na, na-na-na-na

821
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:16,440
Na-na-na-na, hey, Jude

822
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:18,800
Yes...

823
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:22,080
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

824
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,080
Ohh, oh-oh-oh.

825
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:34,160
<font color="

826
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:36,240
See you in Edinburgh.

827
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:43,520
BAGPIPES SKIRL

828
00:45:46,720 --> 00:45:49,880
We hadn't got the Africa deal
before the summit began,

829
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:52,240
it wasn't across the line,

830
00:45:52,240 --> 00:45:55,000
and there was still quite a lot
of opposition to it.

831
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:59,360
The Americans had a strategy
for a while that the top issue

832
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:02,480
that would get agreed at Gleneagles
would be debt cancellation,

833
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:05,400
and we wanted a doubling of aid
for Africa as well.

834
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:08,160
On Africa, I was negotiating

835
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:10,520
the text with Faryar Shirzad

836
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:12,560
as he was flying in with Bush.

837
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:18,160
Michael and I essentially had
to kind of figure that process out.

838
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:19,200
I kept saying to him,

839
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:21,720
Listen, we can pledge to double
development assistance,

840
00:46:21,720 --> 00:46:25,600
but committing to do it,
well, is a complicated thing."

841
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:28,320
And we had three or four hours
on the phone,

842
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:33,160
with me in Gleneagles, him in the
plane, trying to get him to agree.

843
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:35,640
There was no relationship
the President had around the world

844
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:38,360
that was closer than the one he had
with Tony Blair,

845
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:41,320
and so he made it very clear to me
that this summit had to be

846
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:44,080
a success, an outside success,
for the Prime Minister.

847
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:49,040
BAND PLAYS: Hail To The Chief

848
00:46:54,720 --> 00:46:57,960
You get to places like Gleneagles,

849
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:04,280
where a character like
President Bush is more than bemused

850
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:09,480
at the sight of myself and Bob
running around.

851
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:13,640
And I didn't have any clue
who "Geldorf" was.

852
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:16,080
Yeah, he and Bono came in and...

853
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:18,160
<font color="

854
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:21,560
Geldorf looked like he'd crawled out
from underneath the ground.

855
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:25,000
But he was a good guy.
He cared deeply, and...

856
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,520
LAUGHS: ..I'm sure
I insisted upon the picture,

857
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:29,960
to prove I actually met Geldorf.

858
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:34,440
I personally felt like it was
<font color="

859
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:37,360
but it was very nice of
the Prime Minister to have us there.

860
00:47:39,240 --> 00:47:41,800
So the corridors, which once
would have been

861
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:44,320
just the G8 leaders having
a fireside chat,

862
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:48,360
now were full of us all
making sure that

863
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:51,000
<font color="
and the developing world

864
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,960
was part of the conversation
in a central way.

865
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:20,960
The Prime Minister and the President
had a private breakfast that morning

866
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:23,360
and then joined the setting.

867
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:26,160
There was kind of a patio area

868
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:29,720
and an inner lounge
<font color="

869
00:48:29,720 --> 00:48:34,360
The meeting started, but it had only
been going, I suppose,

870
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:38,280
15, 20 minutes or so,
when news began to come in.

871
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:40,840
Newsbeat.  In the last few minutes,
we've been getting reports

872
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:43,120
of an explosion
between Liverpool Street

873
00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:44,680
<font color="

874
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:47,520
All the windows were blown out
on one of the trains.

875
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:50,320
An eyewitness described a loud bang
and black smoke...

876
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:52,440
The police have declared it
a major incident.

877
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:55,280
I remember Jonathan coming in
and telling me,

878
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:57,840
<font color="
in London,

879
00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:00,000
"and we don't know
exactly what's happened,

880
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:02,040
"but we think
it's a terrorist attack."

881
00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:05,000
The Prime Minister was quite shaken
by the news that he had heard,

882
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:08,720
and he shared it with
the other leaders at that point.

883
00:49:08,720 --> 00:49:11,360
<font color="

884
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:13,240
I told Blair, "Get down to London.

885
00:49:13,240 --> 00:49:15,880
"We can handle our own up here,"
you know?

886
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:17,840
"Get down there and do your job."

887
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:22,360
And then the question was,
"Well, what'll happen to the G8?"

888
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:25,080
And they agreed, "Well, the G8
<font color="

889
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:27,360
"then the terrorists will be seen
to have won."

890
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:36,800
Today's bombings will not weaken
in any way our resolve...

891
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:42,640
..to uphold the most deeply held
principles of our societies.

892
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:48,200
We shall prevail,
<font color="

893
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:51,280
NEWS: There were at least
six explosions, the Home Secretary

894
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:55,400
has just confirmed, one of them
on a bus packed with commuters.

895
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:59,680
I remember just looking
and being a bit confused by this,

896
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:03,200
being horrified by the bombs.

897
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:06,040
<font color="
We had to collect ourselves.

898
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:07,840
We had to say,
"OK, what are we going to do now?"

899
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:10,760
We had to group and say,
"What's the next plan?"

900
00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:20,360
With Tony Blair gone, it was
then agreed that I would then...

901
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:23,480
<font color="
at lunch.

902
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:25,880
You know, him leaving,
it could've all fractured.

903
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:28,600
One of those leaders
could've taken advantage of it,

904
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:32,000
blocked the issues we were still
trying to get across the line.

905
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:35,040
<font color="
quite difficult to accept,

906
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:36,800
particularly the text on Africa.

907
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:38,760
The Germans were not on board.

908
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:42,120
Aid to Africa wasn't seen
as a particularly German thing.

909
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:45,240
Germany was more interested
in Eastern Europe and so on.

910
00:50:45,240 --> 00:50:48,760
The German Chancellor, Gerhard
Schroeder, I'd had a beer with him.

911
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:51,600
I say, "Look,
I'm actually going to Berlin,

912
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:53,480
"coming to a stadium near you,

913
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:55,840
"and I am going to have
to tell people

914
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:58,920
"if you're signing
or you're not signing.

915
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:02,280
"So...are we in or are we out?"

916
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:06,880
<font color="
he doesn't agree.

917
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:10,720
I go to Berlin, I do call him out.

918
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:16,280
Leadership means that between
all these rich countries,

919
00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:21,760
we get $50 billion a year
for the poorest of the poor,

920
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:26,400
something we have not yet got today.

921
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:30,160
And so we do not applaud
<font color="

922
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:32,400
But if...

923
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:35,240
..he can deliver this...

924
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:38,400
..by four o'clock tomorrow...

925
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:43,120
..your Chancellor, in my mind,

926
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:46,400
will be a hero.

927
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:46,400
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

928
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:55,480
Tony Blair came back from London,
exhausted.

929
00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:58,120
Quite late that evening,
<font color="

930
00:51:58,120 --> 00:52:00,520
and said, "Look, what's been
going on while I've been away?"

931
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:03,960
I said to Tony Blair, "Look, you're
going to have to talk to Schroeder."

932
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:06,760
And then he went down into the bar

933
00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:12,480
with all the leaders there
and their wives. I remember him...

934
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:16,000
Not to exaggerate, but he had
<font color="

935
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:19,160
saying, "We're going to do
this deal, aren't we, Gerhard?"

936
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:22,760
And at that moment,
I think Schroeder gave in

937
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:25,440
and we got across the line
with the Germans.

938
00:52:27,560 --> 00:52:30,200
What had been really hanging
in the balance,

939
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:33,200
in terms of getting the commitment,
it came through.

940
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:37,000
And all the leaders
played their part in that.

941
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:40,120
To be frank, even President Putin
played his part in that.

942
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:42,600
You know, he had the ability
to wreck that whole summit

943
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:45,400
if he wanted to, and he didn't.

944
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:47,360
He's Putin, you know?

945
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:51,960
<font color="
standing there, signing up to it,

946
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:54,400
with the African leaders
in attendance.

947
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:14,000
It was definitely
the most extraordinary weekend

948
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:16,680
I had in my time as Prime Minister.

949
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:18,200
It was...

950
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:24,960
<font color="
of truly global solidarity...

951
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:27,400
..that I can remember.

952
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:44,560
NEWS: The figures agreed
sound immense -

953
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:48,480
$50 billion extra in aid
for the developing world by 2010,

954
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:51,320
$25 billion of that for Africa.

955
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:55,760
<font color="
are saying that 2010 is too late,

956
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:58,840
that the money is needed
more urgently in Africa now.

957
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:02,600
This is a natural course of events.

958
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:06,000
You get fed up with
parts of the NGO community,

959
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:08,320
because whatever you do
<font color="

960
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:10,520
and they ask you to do something,
you do it

961
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:12,160
and they still criticise you.

962
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:14,280
And Bob and Bono
just weren't like that at all.

963
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:19,360
Debt relief equivalent to billions
was a giant leap,

964
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:23,360
to the benefit of most of
<font color="

965
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:26,800
NEWS: Disappointment with the deal
-and some of its famous backers

966
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:29,280
came to a head
later in the afternoon.

967
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:32,160
The fact that aid was delayed
until 2010

968
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:35,480
meant there's a lot of room
for wriggle-out, right?

969
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:37,480
Because five years,
<font color="

970
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:39,960
the context has changed,
all of that.

971
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:42,880
Our reading is that the G8
has listened,

972
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:46,360
but their response has not been
a roar but a whisper.

973
00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:49,560
I do my "People roared
and G8 whispered,"

974
00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:53,560
<font color="
and goes...

975
00:54:55,280 --> 00:54:57,960
.."According to my calculation,
this is how many lives will be

976
00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:00,040
"saved as a result of
this aid money,"

977
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:02,280
which will come five years later.

978
00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:06,640
When did ten million people alive
become a whisper?

979
00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:09,080
At what point was that a whisper?

981
00:55:12,520 --> 00:55:15,960
It was a very, very intense moment.

982
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:19,880
I'm just thinking,
"We're getting through this

983
00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:25,880
"and we're advancing our cause
and we're not over."

984
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:28,840
A mountain has been climbed,

985
00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:34,120
and...only to reveal higher peaks,
<font color="

986
00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:37,160
But it's worth just stopping
for a second

987
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:40,960
and looking back down the valley
at where we've all come.

988
00:55:42,240 --> 00:55:45,320
Doubling aid to Africa
has not been easy.

989
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:47,080
What Bono said, we could live with.

990
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:51,920
<font color="
Bono said, "Every army needs

991
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:56,760
"to have a mad general,
and Geldof is our mad general."

993
00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:01,000
MUSIC: Do They Know It's Christmas?
by Band Aid

994
00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:14,400
At Christmas-time,
it's no time to be afraid

995
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:20,960
<font color="
Let in light and banish shade

996
00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:30,200
And in our world of plenty,
we can spread a smile of joy...

997
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:49,880
I think there were very many
good people, with good intentions,

998
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:54,280
that were involved
both with Live Aid and Live 8.

999
00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:59,400
<font color="
not enough sensitivity

1000
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:03,440
to understanding that it's not right

1001
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:09,160
for a bunch of predominantly
white male folks to get together

1002
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:11,480
and say, "We're going to frame
a continent like this."

1003
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:16,600
Tonight, thank God it's them
<font color="

1004
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:19,600
Getting this stuff right
is really hard,

1005
00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:24,800
because you are essentially
raising an alarm.

1006
00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:28,400
What Bob and Bono and others
have done over the years

1007
00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:30,800
has resulted in, I don't know,

1008
00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:33,360
probably millions of people living
<font color="

1009
00:57:33,360 --> 00:57:36,960
and I don't think
there's any type of, you know,

1010
00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:40,320
remote ideological argument that
should stand in the way of that.

1011
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:43,640
Feed the world...

1012
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:49,720
The 20th anniversary
was just a convergence of...

1013
00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:55,960
<font color="
on the world stage.

1014
00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:58,320
But what's happening now in politics

1015
00:57:58,320 --> 00:58:03,400
means this anniversary could be
a funeral...

1016
00:58:04,760 --> 00:58:07,280
..for the last 40 years.

1017
00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:11,440
It was unique.

1018
00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:13,560
It has saved lives.

1019
00:58:13,560 --> 00:58:18,200
But now, can we bring
<font color="

1020
00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:23,080
can we involve human beings
across the world

1021
00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:28,120
to act the way you acted
in the 1980s to save lives?

1022
00:58:30,800 --> 00:58:34,360
What I love is that
there are younger people,

1023
00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:38,280
and they say, "We're not going
to do it like they did it" -

1024
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:41,160
<font color="
cos I don't think that'll work -

1025
00:58:41,160 --> 00:58:44,920
"but I can utilise
this new stuff I've got

1026
00:58:44,920 --> 00:58:48,920
"to do something weird and mad
and wild."

1027
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:52,960
And if that's what we leave behind,

1028
00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:57,120
then that's what I'd love to be
the parting shot.

1029
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:02,120
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You've been a fantastic audience!

1030
00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:05,440
Thank you, thank you very much!

1031
00:59:05,440 --> 00:59:07,520
CHEERING

1032
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:09,720
We're back to Philadelphia now.

1033
00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:11,760
Thank you very much for coming.

1034
00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:14,920
Please leave the stadium
slowly and quietly.

1035
00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:18,480
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Thank you, thank you!

1036
00:59:18,480 --> 00:59:21,160
CHEERING

1037
00:59:18,480 --> 00:59:21,160
Over to you, Philadelphia!