LIVE 8
Hide Park, Londra 2 luglio 2005
con Pete
Doherty
"I'm
glad to be here in general, because when the Live
Aid concert happened 20 years ago, I was pretty much a self-obsessed
drug addict.
And
although I was really pleased to be part of a great
day, I really wasn't adult enough or mature enough to realise the full
consequences of what we were doing then.
Since
then, of course, I have been 15 years sober and
clean and I think I have grown up and matured a bit and started my own
Aids charity and have been in a huge battle to help Aids patients ever
since.
And of
course, those two things are tied in together very much so.
I went
to Africa in January and saw for myself the
situation there and saw the ignorance and stigma that people are
fighting against. And I'm just very proud to be involved in something.
Musicians are kind of like Pied Pipers in this respect, and now I'm
really aware or what is going and the injustices that are happening and
the anger that we get from seeing it.
Just a
simple turning over of money is not as simple as
that because you have got corrupt governments to deal with and
everything.
And we
have so much ignorance that we are fighting like
South Africa, we have the president of South Africa saying that Aids is
caused by poverty. I wish!
I don't
have much to say, except that I'm extremely
honoured to be around to play this concert, because it means so much
more to me now than it did.
It may sound ridiculous but it really does mean a lot more to me now,
because I'm fully aware of the situations having become involved in
fundraising and trying to combat poverty and ignorance through the Aids
Foundation.
I know
all the musicians taking part are the creme de la
creme. Since Live Aid, musicians have really stepped up to the plate,
like Bono. Bob's always been there.
The
reason I'm here today is that Bob Geldof asked me to
do something. I would go on a dangerous mission with Bob, I trust him
with my life.
He's an
honourable, honourable man and I admire so much for what he is doing
here.
I
think he encouraged, through Live Aid 20 years ago,
musicians to really think about what they should be doing instead of
just playing and driving around in flash cars."
Elton John 2005
Elton ha
duettato con Peter Doherty in occasione del Live 8, un Live
Aid
20 anni dopo, con la canzone Children Of The Revolution.
La prestazione di Doherty è stata giudicata senza dubbio la
peggiore di tutta la manifestazione.
The Bitch Is Back
Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)
Children Of The Revolution
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