MÖTLEY CRÜE And STATUS QUO Rejected By LIVE 8 Organizers

June 17, 2005

MÖTLEY CRÜE and STATUS QUO are among the 65 bands that were reportedly rejected by the the Live 8 organizers after the artists offered to play the flagship concert in London next month, according to The Scotsman. "We simply don't have room for them," Harvey Goldsmith, the promoter, said.

STATUS QUO famously opened the original Live Aid concert in 1985 with their hit "Rockin' All Over The World". Yesterday their lead singer, Francis Rossi, said they were "desperate" to play at Hyde Park. "We're going to be there if they want us to," he said. "We want to make it clear we are desperate for this gig."

A total of five enormous, free concerts will be held July 2 in Philadelphia, London, Paris, Berlin and Rome, according to the Washington Post.

The extravaganza, which is being organized by Bob Geldof, who 20 years ago put together the famine-relief concerts of Live Aid, will not be intended to raise funds. Rather, it is aimed at spotlighting the problem of poverty in developing African countries just days before President Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Russian President Vladimir Putin and leaders of five other industrial nations gather for the G8 Summit in Scotland.

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