Reply #25: Al Gore Sets Global Warming Concerts With Snoop Dogg, Bon Jovi

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Al Gore Sets Global Warming Concerts With Snoop Dogg, Bon Jovi

By Kim Chipman and Alan Ohnsman

Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) -- A group headed by former Vice President Al Gore is planning a single day of concerts on seven continents featuring more than 100 performers, including Bon Jovi, Snoop Dogg and Fall Out Boy, to promote awareness of global warming.

The ``Live Earth'' shows will take place July 7 in London, Shanghai, Sydney, Johannesburg and locations to be determined in the U.S., Brazil and Japan, Gore and music producer Kevin Wall said today in Los Angeles. Details of a show in Antarctica will be announced next month, Gore spokeswoman Kalee Kreider said.

The concerts are part of ``Save Our Selves,'' a new campaign founded by Wall, the producer behind the 2005 Live 8 concerts that raised money for Africa. General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal Inc. television and movie unit will televise the shows in the U.S. Gore and Wall said they expect ``Live Earth'' to be the most viewed event ever, reaching more than 2 billion people through television, radio, the Internet and film.

``The goal is to trigger a mass movement across the globe to combat our climate crisis,'' spokesman Yusef Robb of Save Our Selves said in an interview.

Proceeds from the concerts will go to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a group Gore heads that includes Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Managing Director Theodore Roosevelt IV and Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to President George H.W. Bush. Tickets will go on sale next month.

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