Pink Floyd to reunite with Roger Waters at today's Live 8

Pink Floyd


Paul McCartney and U2's Bono rocked London's Hyde Park with a rousing performance of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" on Saturday to kick off the main event in the Live 8 extravaganza rolling around the globe.
Harvey Goldsmith, one of the Live 8 organizers, said he was determined the show, featuring 25 acts including U2, Madonna, REM, Carey, Coldplay and Pink Floyd, would go like clockwork.
"We have clocks everywhere and our message to all the artists is, we don't care what time you go on, we just care about what time you come off," he said.
"We have to be as time-precise as possible, particularly with all the international links going on. We just ask everybody to play ball."
Organizers say 2 million people may attend the concerts and claim 85 percent of the world's population will have access to a television, radio or Internet broadcast of the day's events. A complex broadcasting operation will feed footage of the concerts to networks including the British Broadcasting Corp. -- which is devoting more than 12 hours on its main TV channels to the event -- and MTV.
The lineups are eclectic: Destiny's Child, The Dave Matthews Band, Bon Jovi, Stevie Wonder, P. Diddy and Jay-Z in Philadelphia; Brian Wilson, Chris de Burgh and Green Day in Berlin; Neil Young, Bryan Adams and Motley Crue in Barrie, north of Toronto; McFly in Tokyo; the Pet Shop Boys in Moscow; Goth-rockers The Cure and Senegalese superstar Youssou N'Dour in Paris, France.
The artists, playing for free, are heeding Geldof's call to urge world leaders to double aid, cancel debt and rework unfair trade laws to lift African nations out of poverty.
More at CNN.
The long desired reunion of Roger Waters and Pink Floyd is an event that rivals the dreams that Beatle fans so wanted until the passing of John Lennon. The American broadcast of Live 8 begins at noon eastern on MTV. Official Live 8 Site.