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London (pte032/10.06.2005/14:36) - Bob Geldof, singer, advocate for human rights and freedom, has voiced concern about the effects his Live 8 protests and concerts will have on the G8 leaders. "It will be, not for me but for everyone involved, a glorious failure," the 53-year-old singer said.
Geldof said his role in the organisation process was "very demanding" and, "I really don't want to do it... There is no part... that I have liked, not a single part."
But he added: "For the rest of my life I would have thought 'I could have maybe done that, I could have maybe changed it and I bottled it for personal reasons'."
The rock singer is organising five Live 8 concerts on 2nd July in London, Berlin, Philadelphia, Paris and Rome in the style of the 1985 Live Aid concert, four days before the G8 summit begins in Scotland http://www.g8.gov.uk . Geldof also hopes to mobilise a million people to protest outside the Gleneagle's doors.
The campaign, entitled Make Poverty History, is meant to encourage the world's wealthiest nations to offer more aid to Third World countries.
U2 singer Bono is campaigning alongside his colleague and friend. "There will always be natural calamities, but there are 120,000 lost lives in Africa every month and this is avoidable," the Irish singer said.
Meeting with European Commission leader Jose Manuel Barroso on Thursday, Bono told world leaders: "Don't blow it."
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