On 6th July 2005, Bob Geldof's Live 8 concerts were beamed out across the world to an estimated (potential) audience of three billion people, many of whom will have found the proceedings to be typically lachrymose and simplistically sanctimonious, as all charidee gigs tend to be. There were plenty of embarrassing misfires. Charity may well bring out the best in people, but why does it so often bring out the worst in rock stars who can't resist making global tits of themselves when standing in front of what is probably the biggest audience they'll ever have? There was Mariah Carey, carping ...
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