Yet more acts for Live 8

Alicia Keys, the Black Eyed Peas, Josh Groban, Def Leppard and Toby Keith have been added to the line-up of Saturday’s Live 8 concert in Philadelphia.

Celebrity presenters at the show will include actors Salma Hayek, Natalie Portman, Chris Tucker, Jennifer Connelly, Jimmy Smits and Kami, a HIV-positive puppet from the South African version of Sesame Street, organisers said last night.

The show also will feature host Will Smith and performances from Bon Jovi, Destiny’s Child, Linkin Park, Maroon 5, the Dave Matthews Band, Jay-Z, Keith Urban, Maroon 5, P Diddy, Rob Thomas, Sarah McLachlan and Stevie Wonder.

Hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons has signed on as a producer.

The Philadelphia show is one of nine concerts aimed at pressuring leaders of the world’s richest countries, the G8, to cancel Africa’s unpayable debts and double aid for the continent. The concerts take place the week before the G8 leaders meet in Scotland.

The other concert sites are in London, Moscow, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Tokyo, Canada and Johannesburg.

In the US, VH1 and MTV will air eight hours of the concert, while America Online, which owns the US rights to the concerts, will beam them on the internet.