The creator of the psychedelic pop sound is more than happy to be playing a concert in his adopted home of Cork, he tells Ed Power

Michael Jackson is being urged to donate his profits from the historic Live 8 concerts, which otherwise could clear much of his financial debt, to charity.

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.