THE WALL by PINK FLOYD w/ GRAPHICS: part 3 - waters vs. glimore

Blessed are the Peacemakers

In 1981, Roger Waters and David Gilmour fought for control over the destiny of Pink Floyd. Waters left the group and unsuccessfully sued members for rights to the band's name. Since then, guitarist-vocalist Gilmour, keyboard player Richard Wright and drummer Nick Mason have released albums and toured as Pink Floyd. The Hyde Park show of the Live 8 event put together by Bob Gildof marked the first reunion of classic Pink Floyd with Waters.

Bob Geldof (born October 5th 1954, Dublin, Ireland), leader of the Boomtown Rats starred as Pink in Alan Parker's movie The Wall and sings the songs In The Flesh? and In The Flesh.

In the fall of 1984, after watching a BBC documentry on Ethiopian poverty, Geldof was inspired to put together a charity single, "Do They Know It's Christmas." It featured a large number of British pop stars performing under the name Band Aid and became the best-selling single in the UK history. Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie repeated the feat the following year in the USA with "We Are The World." By then Geldof was involved in plans for a massive charity concert that eventually became Live Aid, two marathon shows held July 13th, 1985, at Wembley Stadium in London and at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, featuring a Who's Who of pop/rock talent. Millions were raised and distributed to the African poor.

In July of 2005, Millions gathered at concert venues across the world for a massive musical effort to focus attention on global poverty by pressuring G8 nations to do more to alleviate suffering.

At one point, Rajpal read an open letter from Bob Geldof, which appealed to world leaders for $25 billion in African aid and $25 billion more for other poor countries in the world.

Geldof said the G8 summit also needed to confirm the cancellation of all debt for all countries that need it and remove damaging economic policies imposed as a condition, and make "decisive steps" to end unjust trade, allowing poor countries to build their own economies.

"We will not applaud half-measures, or politics as usual. This must be a historic breakthrough," the letter said.

"Today there will be noise and music and joy, the joy of exuberant possibility. On Friday there will be great silence as the world awaits your verdict," it continued.

"Do not disappoint us. Do not create a generation of cynics. Do not betray the desires of billions and the hopes of the poorest of our world."

Geldof was nominated for a Nobel Prize and knighted, and his autobiography "Is That All?" became a UK best-seller.