[quote name=\'tommycharles\' date=\'Dec 27 2003, 11:33 PM\'] Well, actually, that demonstrates what a TERRIBLE job the U.S. media did of covering the 46664 campaign. November 29th, 2003, a massive 4-hour concert was staged at Green Point stadium in Cape Town, South Africa. This was to benefit AIDS in Africa, a cause that has gone far beyond a medical issue and into one of human rights (poor countries not being able to get drugs that would save lives entirely because they're poor countries, etc.).
It featured Queen, Bono/The Edge, Eurythmics (they reunited), Beyonce, Bob Geldof, Anastasia, and tons of other people who I've forgotten.
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This isn't the first time an event that was big in Europe was all but ignored in the USA...which brings up my $1,000,000 question:
In terms of participants, the largest running race in the world was held in what city?
A. London
B. San Francisco
C. Atlanta
D. New York
The correct answer is A - the first Sport Aid "race" held in London. There were races coordinated to be run all at the same time throughout the world, but there were two problems as far as the USA was concerned; one, noon London meant the race would be run at 7 AM in New York and 4 AM in Los Angeles (actually, there were races held in those cities, but fewer than 1000 people in either one, as opposed to, if I recall correctly, 125,000 in London); two, Hands Across America was on the same day.
Besides, most people who were interested in the music probably wouldn't care what the cause was; most of the people at the Paris Amnesty International concert (where the Dalai Lama made a surprise appearance) admitted they weren't interested about Tibet and just came for the concert.
-- Don
