5.7.05

Gimme some money

This is interesting - according to HMV, this is the increase in album sales for key artists appearing at Live 8 on Saturday:

1. Pink Floyd - Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd - 1343%
2. The Who - Then and Now - 863%
3. Annie Lennox - Eurythmics Greatest Hits - 500%
4. Dido - Life for Rent - 412%
5. Razorlight - Up All Night - 335%
6. Robbie Williams - Greatest Hits - 320%
7. Joss Stone - Mind, Body and Soul - 309%
8. Sting - The Very Best of Sting & The Police - 300%
9. Travis - Singles - 268%
10. Madonna - Immaculate Collection - 200%

Quite why anyone still wants to hear records by Annie Lennox is a worry to me, and the same goes for Dido - the blandest voice in pop EVER. Those Razorlight kids were having fun - shirts off, swearing, everything! And it must have been way past their bed time.

Anyway, good old Uncle Dave Gilmour out of Pink Floyd says that artists and record companies should be donating the extra royalties from post Live 8 sales to charity. Good for him. Should be interesting to see if anyone agrees with him - Pink Floyd are already as rich as Croesus and can afford to make such grandiose gestures, but I'm not sure Johnny Razorlight or whatever the fuck he calls himslef will be quite so benevolent. He's probably already spent the extra cash on fizzy pop and sherbert.

I'm learning a grudging respect for Alex Petri Dish in the Grauniad:


"For all the fuss about the lack of black faces on Live 8's bill, rapper Snoop Dogg somehow contrives to seem incredibly inappropriate. He never mentions the concert's aims, preferring instead to raise the watching world's awareness of Snoop Dogg. "Wave your motherfucking hands in the air," he yells. "Wave the motherfuckers like you just don't care." Given that caring is rather the point of Live 8, this suggestion seems unsuitable at best."

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