Wave Aid Hits the High Notes Biggest Charity Gig Since Live Aid Raises Millions for Tsunami Victims
Sunday Herald › January 24, 2005
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IT may look like a badly parked spaceship in the middle of Cardiff but yesterday the Millennium Stadium cocooned a crowd of 60,000, hosted music from 21 top acts and brought several more millions in donations for the Asian tsunami appeal.
An easy pounds-1 million was raised in just three days from ticket sales for the sell-out Welsh Tsunami Relief Concert, making it the biggest charity gig since Live Aid, which took pounds-60m in 1985. Worldwide broadcast rights were set to take yesterday's total to nearer pounds-5m.See the full content of this document
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Wave Aid Hits the High Notes Biggest Charity Gig Since Live Aid Raises Millions for Tsunami Victims
Wave Aid took place as the Disaster Emergency Committee announced that British donations for the Asian tsunami disaster had topped out at a staggering pounds-200m.
Only the massive total of private donations made yesterday's fundraiser appear modest."A million may...See the full content of this document
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