If I say "LIVE 8," how many of you know what I'm talking about?
I thought so . . .
It was the biggest, hippest rock concert in the history of the world.
How many of you have already signed The One Declaration? You're more than one in a million.
And a million was the number that attended the Philadelphia Live 8. That doesn't include the millions more that were showed up in Moscow (20,000), Tokyo (10,000), Johannesburg (10,000, where Nelson Mandela stole the show), London (200,000, where Pink Floyd returned to the stage after decades of absence), Berlin (200,000), Paris (300,000), Rome (200,000), Toronto (35,000, but 10 million Canadians watched on tv), and southwestern England.
The purpose of Live 8 was laser-focused: bring public pressure to bear on the G-8 countries that hold the wor…