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Pink Floyd's charity plea
By Nicole Lampert, Daily Mail, Showbusiness Editor Last updated at 00:00am on 05.07.05
Pink Floyd's Dave Gilmour at Live8
Pink Floyd's David Gilmour has called on his fellow Live8 artists to give any profits they make from the show to charity.
The guitarist, whose band staged a one-off reunion for the concert, said the profits from extra sales as a result of Live8 'should be used to save lives'.
He announced that he would not profit from the Hyde Park concert as it emerged that some acts saw their album sales rise by more than 1,000 per cent in one day thanks to their performances on Saturday.
Gilmour said: 'Though the main objective has been to raise consciousness and put pressure on the G8 leaders, I will not profit from the concert. If other artists feel like donating their extra royalties to charity, perhaps then the record companies could be persuaded to make a similar gesture.'
Woolworths music boss Jim Batchelor said: 'Our stores have been inundated with customers wanting CDs of the Live8 artists and we are busy re-ordering back catalogue titles.'
HMV's Gennaro Castaldo added: 'It's likely this impact will become more pronounced through the week, as more fans respond to the combined efforts of the weekend's televised event, the G8 summit and all the ensuing publicity.'
According to HMV, sales of Pink Floyd's 'best of' album Echoes went up by 1,343 per cent. Sales of albums by the Who rose by 863 per cent, Annie Lennox by 500 per cent, Dido by 412 per cent, Razorlight by 335 per cent and Robbie Williams by 320 per cent.
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That's a very good gesture. Rock Music is traditionally humanitarian in spirit and colour. Dave's appeal to other musicians for donating royalties is understandable. Not only this, there should be more concerts like this with involvement of other creative personas in a unifying way to create more options to raise funds for those who need them the most. I know for certain that there are persons who are continuously trying to reach out with this idea to old musicians /singers of the 60s era in UK/US who once rocked the earth.
- Joy Roy Choudhury, UK
