Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason wants the band to reunite.

We should make this rock we live on a better place for all as well as looking at the stars, Bob Geldof told the world’s leading scientists yesterday.

Irish musician and human rights activist Bob Geldof has said bankers and traders should be jailed if they have broken the law.

Andy Kershaw: No Off Switch

A MAN accused of raping a university graduate at knifepoint on the night of Live Aid 26 years ago was cleared by an Old Bailey jury.

A British man accused of raping a university graduate at knifepoint on the night of Live Aid 26 years ago was cleared by an Old Bailey jury today.

Sacha Baron Cohen is to play Freddie Mercury in a new film.

Bob Geldof was terrified he wouldn’t be able to pull off Live Aid.

The Scissor Sisters are hoping to be joined on stage by Ian McKellen at this weekend's Glastonbury Festival.

British rockers Duran Duran took a 20-year break from the music industry following a disastrous performance at 1985's Live Aid concert.

Former US Vice President Al Gore has hit back at Bob Geldof's criticisms of his forthcoming Live 8 concerts, insisting the super gigs will be a "wake-up call for the world".

Singer George Michael will kick off his European tour tonight with a show in Denmark.

U2 frontman Bono is being awarded an honorary British knighthood for his services to the music industry and humanitarian work, it was announced today.

South-East Correspondent Neans McSweeney looks back at 21 busy years of international flights.

Bob Geldof has been honoured with a humanitarian award by the Holocaust Museum Houston for his work organising 1985’s Live Aid concert.

Bob Geldof has been honoured by the Houston Holocaust Museum with a humanitarian award for his work organising 1985’s Live Aid concert.

Queen’s flamboyant performance at Live Aid 20 years ago has been crowned the world’s greatest rock gig.

A PLAQUE commemorating “the unparalleled benevolence of the English nation to the poor of Ireland” has caused outrage in the Sinn Féin party in Nenagh, Co Tipperary (Irish Examiner, October 28).

Twenty years ago tonight, four Irish athletes came home for a charity race that changed their lives - and set a record that still stands today. Simon Lewis reflects.

FROM lazy indifference to the first faint simmerings of indignation to a global outcry for action to end African poverty - the positive universal response to Live8 bore delightful testimony to the lofty, not-so-crazy ideals of one Irishman.

IT was the most powerful expression of people power in the 20 years since Live Aid, with the Live 8 concerts in ten cities around the world attended by hundreds of thousands of people and attracting global television audiences estimated at three billion.

Twenty years after Live Aid, the world’s leading musicians took to the London stage once more tonight to call for an end to world poverty.

The message beating out today from the Live 8 concerts all over the world to the leaders of the industrialised states, who will gather in Edinburgh next Wednesday, will be simply this: stop the poverty in Africa.

Live 8 organisers were tonight making the final preparations for the biggest music event the world has yet seen.

More than a million people are expected to crowd the streets of Philadelphia tomorrow to witness their own piece of the Live 8 extravaganza.

Tens of thousands of people led by Bob Geldof issued a call to the G8 summit today, shouting in unison “Make Poverty History“.

MTV and VH1 will broadcast eight hours of the Live 8 concerts on July 2, the networks have revealed.

Hip-hop star 50 Cent has dropped out of performing at the Live 8 concert in Philadelphia next month, because it clashes with work on his debut movie, Get Rich Or Die Tryin’.

Irish music fans will not be able to go to London's Live 8 concert on July 2.

Should one-million people march on the G8 summit in Edinburgh in a month’s time, as Bob Geldof wants them to, a powerful message will be delivered to some of the wealthiest and most influential leaders in the world.

Madonna, Robbie Williams and Paul McCartney head the stellar line-up for Live 8 – the biggest music event since Live Aid 20 years ago.

Bob Geldof has confirmed charity concert Live 8 will go ahead this summer - but warned music fans the gig will not be "a Live Aid 2".

Bob Geldof and Midge Ure today announced plans for their follow-up to Live Aid.

Charity concert Live Aid II is being planned for this summer in order to tie in with the G8 Summit.

Bob Geldof is retuning to Africa 20 years after the Live Aid extravaganza which he organised to alleviate famine and poverty in Ethiopia.

Manic Street Preachers, Badly Drawn Boy, Snow Patrol and Embrace have joined the line-up for the forthcoming Live Aid-style extravaganza in Britain, which aims to raise millions for the Asia tsunami victims.

Bob Geldof has asked Madonna to introduce the new Band Aid charity single - despite slamming her performance at the original Live Aid show 20 years ago.

Paul McCartney won't be asked to sing on the new Band Aid single, because at 62 organisers consider him too old.

there no end to the suffering that the people of Ethiopia must endure?

Led Zeppelin’s former members have defended a decision to pull out of the Live Aid DVD which is being released by Bob Geldof to raise money for Sudan.

Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney is playing his 3,000th gig today.

The 20th anniversary of Live Aid will draw the public’s attention back to African issues and encourage western governments to take urgent action, it was claimed today.

IRISH rock superstars Bono and The Corrs joined Beyoncé Knowles and other international stars to answer Nelson Mandela's call to help fight the scourge of AIDS on Saturday.

Bulldozers began demolishing the old Wembley stadium today – marking the end of an era for one of the most famous stadiums in the world.