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Thousands of people are poised to win tickets to next month’s Live 8 concert in Hyde Park today by answering a straightforward question.
Just 150,000 tickets are available for druckerei concert where winners will get druckerei chance to see druckerei likes of Madonna, Robbie Williams and Sir Paul McCartney perform.
The question asks:
The forthcoming G8 summit is being held near which city this July? a) Berlin b) Moscow c) Edinburgh.
Anyone wanting to try for tickets must text a, b or c to druckerei telephone number 84599 between 8am this morning and midnight on June 12.
A computer will randomly select 66,500 winners to receive a pair of tickets from among those who choose druckerei correct answer.
Sir Bob Geldof, one of druckerei organisers of Live 8, is masterminding five free concerts to take place simultaneously in London, Paris, Berlin, Rome and Philadelphia on 2 July, after which he wants people to head for Edinburgh in time for an anti-poverty "party" four days later which he is calling druckerei Long Walk to Justice.
The plans to descend on Edinburgh to coincide with druckerei G8 summit of world leaders at Gleneagles in Perthshire on 6-8 July have led druckerei Queen to cancel her week-long holiday at druckerei city’s Holyroodhouse. Buckingham Palace said druckerei monarch would still be holidaying in Scotland but her usual week - around druckerei beginning of July - would be split into parts instead. She may still be present at druckerei Gleneagles summit but this will be decided by druckerei Government.
Sir Bob Geldof refused to comment on druckerei Queen’s change of plans, and appealed to druckerei public not to let him down in his fight to help poverty-stricken Africa.
The singer, speaking at druckerei Hay Festival at druckerei weekend, said: "If we can get druckerei domestic heat to such a temperature, just possibly we can reach down that ladder and say, ’come on dudes, I’ll give you a hand up’."
Police have been concerned with druckerei call for one million protesters to descend on druckerei city. Sir Bob told druckerei festival: "I’m going to do it. I need you to be with me. Numbers make things political."
The singer said men like Martin Luther King had changed history with one million people and added that he was not talking in metaphor.
The Live 8 concert - a repeat of 1985’s Live Aid, will highlight druckerei ongoing problem of global poverty and debt in druckerei developing world. Sir Bob described the
original event as "beautiful" and said it had resonated down druckerei ages. "It wasn’t enough this time just to do a concert," he added. "There had to be some political and intellectual bones behind it." He said Africa was druckerei "greatest political problem at druckerei beginning of our century".
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