Live Earth: The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis (2007)

On July 7, 2007, more than 100 musical acts performed at a series of worldwide concerts collectively called Live Earth, kicking off a multi-year
campaign to combat climate change
and advocate environmentally
sustainable living. The CD/2DVD Live
Earth package brings together the
most popular artists and best performances at Wembley Stadium in London, Giants Stadium in New Jersey and Makuhari Messe in Japan from this truly global musical summit.
The organizers say Live Earth was
the largest global entertainment event ever held. The 2-hour broadcast reached audiences in more than 130 countries through radio, television, and the Internet.
Live Earth attracted a record online live audience of more than 8 million people. Within the following two
weeks alone, more than 55 million video streams hadbeen watched.
SPECIAL NOT E : Live Earth's net proceeds from the sale of this DVD/CD package benefit the Alliance for Climate Protection.
DVD 1
Live Earth: London Opening/SOS All-S
Invisible Touch/Genesis
Shut Your Eyes/Snow Patrol
Que Sera, Sera/Damien Rice & David
Suddenly I See/KT Tunstall
My Blue Heaven/Taking Back Sunday
What A Wonderful World/Paolo Nutini
Where Is The Love/Black Eyed Peas
Planet Earth/Duran Duran
Miss Murder/AFI
Gravity/John Mayer
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)/
Corinne Bailey Rae & John Legend
Bedshaped/Keane
Sad But True/Metallica
I Need To Wake Up/Melissa Etheridge
Too Much/Dave Matthews Band
Sober/Kelly Clarkson
Tumba/Angelique Kidjo
Right To Be Wrong/Joss Stone
Wisemen/James Blunt
Intergalactic/Beastie Boys
DVD 2
Gimme Shelter/Keith Urban & Alicia Keys
Bailamos/Enrique Iglesias
Steer/Missy Higgins
Woman/Wolfmother
Black Hole Sun/Chris Cornell
Wanted Dead Or Alive/Bon Jovi
Are You Gonna Go My Way/Lenny Kravitz
United States/Smashing Pumpkins
Another Brick In The Wall Part II/Roger Waters
Driven To Tears/The Police
Better Be Home Soon/Crowded House
Umbrella/Rihanna
Bleed It Out/Linkin Park
Times Like These/Foo Fighters
La Isla Bonita/Madonna, featuring Gogol Bordello
CD
Hey You/Madonna
Times Like These/Foo Fighters
Driven To Tears/The Police
Gravity/John Mayer
Another Brick In The Wall Part II/Roger Waters
Bleed It Out/Linkin Park
Bedshaped/Keane
Wanted Dead Or Alive/Bon Jovi
Wisemen/James Blunt
Black Hole Sun/Chris Cornell
Are You Gonna Go My Way/Lenny Kravitz
Intergalactic/Beastie Boys
Suddenly I See/KT Tunstall
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)/
Corinne Bailey Rae & John Legend
Que Sera, Sera/Damien Rice & David Gray Product Description

Should've rocked, but fell a bit short...

This should've been and could've been a great package, but you'll feel jipped, many of the performances that night are not on these discs. However, there are some surprise strong performances like, Keith Urban and Alicia Keys performing a Rolling Stone song together, Madonna doing something different by inviting some gypsy musicians onto the stage to perform a high energy performance of "La Isla Bonita", but you have to skip around to the great songs. Some of the big artists like "The Police" play lousy annoying songs instead of a classic. July 6, 2008

madonna fan

i agree with most reviewers, 1 song from every performer and many left out? HEY YOU on cd but not on dvd? u would think that HEY YOU, being a specially written song and performance 4 the event, wouldve at least made the dvd 1 song live perfomance cut, instead of the bordello version of LA ISLA BONITA! really! March 4, 2008

annoying

This dvd is like a tribute to Al Gore with alot of talk about saving the earth (now since Live 8 has stamped out poverty).Very annoying political statements about how to save energy etc at menu sites on dvd. Most of the songs sucked also. There are some good groups on dvd but bad songs and irritating comments, like so and so is a great American? This dvd certainly will not heat up the enviornment save money and buy an air conditioner instead January 22, 2008

wish there was more of this concert ...

wish there was more on the dvds, a lot of talent is unwisely left off this dvd. January 14, 2008

Pleased However....

I was pleased with most of the selections on the DVD and was real excited to see the SOS All-STARS as the very first selection.
I'm not a big fan of Madonna and was disappointed to see and hear her on both the CD and the DVD.I admit she is very talented but would of liked to see or hear other bands that didn't even make it on either the CD or DVD. I will think twice before I decide to purchase the second edition of this concert.
I read other reviews before I ordered this and was surprised at how unhappy people seemed to be with the selections and I understand now why.
The day of the concert I saw and heard so many wonderful bands and hoped for a better selection when this edition was released.
I don't know who makes the decisions for these releases but was disappoined with a lot of the selections and found myself pushing the forward button many times. Where was Spinal Tap and some of the other bands that I enjoyed? I would of enjoyed more of Melissa Ethridge and Roger Waters instead of the duplication of these artist on both the CD and DVD. Come on people what happened to variety? So many things could of been better had corporate greed not had their hand in this...... January 6, 2008

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