Saving lives through concerts

If the successes of Live 8 and Group of Eight (G8) summit are anything to go by, one is tempted to conclude that major world problems can be better handled by celebrities and artistes rather than politicians. Already many of them have been made ambassadors to tackle issues and problem like HIV/AID...

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Main Author: Abd Razak, Dzulkifli
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Language:English
Published: 2005
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description If the successes of Live 8 and Group of Eight (G8) summit are anything to go by, one is tempted to conclude that major world problems can be better handled by celebrities and artistes rather than politicians. Already many of them have been made ambassadors to tackle issues and problem like HIV/AIDS, land mines, poverty and even peace on behalf of the United Nations and other international bodies. Bob Geldof and Bono are the two leading examples of such ambassadors that the world has known. It was almost two decades ago that both of them led a host of other singers and musicians to raise money for the Ethiopian famine victims through the Live Aid concert. They manage to attract more than 1.5 billion people in 100 countries live over television, raising awareness about the levels of poverty plaguing humanity, of which Ethiopia was just one of many examples.
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spelling usm-335182017-04-21T03:56:51Z http://eprints.usm.my/33518/ Saving lives through concerts Abd Razak, Dzulkifli HC79 Special topics-Including air pollution, automation,consumer demand, famines, flow of funds,etc. If the successes of Live 8 and Group of Eight (G8) summit are anything to go by, one is tempted to conclude that major world problems can be better handled by celebrities and artistes rather than politicians. Already many of them have been made ambassadors to tackle issues and problem like HIV/AIDS, land mines, poverty and even peace on behalf of the United Nations and other international bodies. Bob Geldof and Bono are the two leading examples of such ambassadors that the world has known. It was almost two decades ago that both of them led a host of other singers and musicians to raise money for the Ethiopian famine victims through the Live Aid concert. They manage to attract more than 1.5 billion people in 100 countries live over television, raising awareness about the levels of poverty plaguing humanity, of which Ethiopia was just one of many examples. 2005-08-17 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/33518/1/DZUL373.pdf Abd Razak, Dzulkifli (2005) Saving lives through concerts. New Sunday Times.
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Saving lives through concerts
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topic HC79 Special topics-Including air pollution, automation,consumer demand, famines, flow of funds,etc.
url http://eprints.usm.my/33518/
http://eprints.usm.my/33518/1/DZUL373.pdf