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What is Live Earth?

Live Earth is a 24-hour, 7-continent series of 9 concerts taking place on 7/7/07 that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis.

Live Earth will reach this worldwide audience through an unprecedented global media architecture covering all media platforms - TV, radio, Internet and wireless channels.

Live Earth will stage concerts at Giants Stadium in New York; Wembley Stadium in London; Aussie Stadium in Sydney; Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro; Maropeng at the Cradle of Humankind in Johannesburg; Makuhari Messe in Tokyo; the Steps of the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai; HSH Nordbank Arena in Hamburg; and Inonu Stadium in Istanbul.

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Smashing Pumpkins, Dave Matthews, Madonna, John Mayer, Beatsie Boys, The Police, Linkin Park, Rihanna, Snoop Dogg, Black Eyed Peas, James Blunt, Snow Patrol, Kanye West, Fall Out Boy, Ludacris, Duran Duran are among the artist lineup for this major event.

Not living anywhere nearby the concert venues? No worries, Live Earth concerts will be broadcast to a live worldwide audience by MSN at LiveEarth.MSN.com.

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The former U.S. Vice President, Al Gore, and a group of environmental activists announced a star-studded series of international concerts, aiming at raising awareness about the threat of climate changes.

The worldwide string of various concerts, dubbed Live Earth, which will take place across seven continents, is scheduled for this summer, on July 7, 2007 (07.07.07), and will include performances by 150 of the world’s top recording artists introduced by an army of “celebrities and thought leaders.” Some of those artists that already signed up for the concert include Sheryl Crow, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Eyed Peas, Bon Jovi, Kelly Clarkson, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Snow Patrol, Foo Fighters, Duran Duran, Enrique Iglesias, Lenny Kravitz and rapper Snoop Dogg.

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