George Roger Waters (born September 9, 1943) is an English rock musician; singer, guitarist, bassist, songwriter, and composer. He is best known for his 1965-1985 career with the band Pink Floyd as their main songwriter (after the departure of Syd Barrett), bass player and one of their lead vocalists (along with David Gilmour and, to a lesser extent, Rick Wright). He was also the mastermind behind many of the band's concept albums, …

Richard Paul Ashcroft (born September 11 1971 in Billinge Maternity Hospital in Billinge Higher End, Lancashire (now part of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester) is an English singer-songwriter. He is the lead singer of The Verve, an English rock band that he helped form in 1989. After that band's demise in 1999, Ashcroft embarked on a successful solo career, before reuniting again with The Verve in June 2007.

Kevin Wall is one of the primary organizers of the Live 8 concerts and the Live Earth concerts. Wall founded SOS (Save Our Selves) to combat climate change. Wall is married to Susan Smalley, a geneticist who currently teaches at UCLA. Together, they have two sons and one daughter. On July 7, 2007, Wall gave a speech at the UK leg of Live Earth at Wembley Stadium, London.

Emmanuel Jal. Emmanuel is a spokesman for the Make Poverty History campaign, the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers and the Control Arms campaign. Among other places he performed at the Live 8 Concert in Cornwall this summer. He was awarded a 2005 American Gospel Music Award for best international artist.

Harvey Goldsmith CBE (b. 4 March, 1946) was the co–organiser of The Live 8 concert in Hyde Park, London that took place on 2 July, 2005 together with Bob Geldof. Harvey Goldsmith is probably the United Kingdom's best known rock promoters and has been instrumental in developing the live touring industry in Europe. From acts as diverse as Pavarotti, Queen, Lord of the Dance, The Who, Van Morrison, Madonna, …

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, CBE (born 2 October, 1951), universally known by his stage name Sting, is an English musician from Newcastle upon Tyne. Prior to starting his solo career, he was the principal composer, lead singer and bass player of the rock band The Police.

Jon Carin (born October 21 1964 in New York) is a musician, producer, engineer, writer and programmer who plays keyboards, guitar, bass guitar, drums and sings. Also known as the front-man (lead vocalist, keyboard and guitar player) of the 80s band Industry, whose 1984 breakthrough single State Of The Nation was followed in the same year by the successful album Stranger To Stranger.

Vusi Mahlasela is a South African singer/songwriter whose music is generally described as "African folk." His work was an inspiration to many in the anti-apartheid movement. His themes include the struggle for freedom, and forgiveness and reconciliation with your enemies. He toured with Ladysmith Black Mambazo in the United Kingdom for the group's British tour of October and November 2004.

Daniel Campos (born May 6, 1983), also known as Cloud, is a director, choreographer, actor, and dancer born in Adel, Georgia but raised in San Diego, California. Cloud is of Filipino and Caucasian decent. He speaks English and is conversational in Tagalog. Cloud is a former member of the Al Fuentes High Voltage Extreme Acrobatic Dance Team as well as a dancer with the Skills Methodz troupe.

Michael Cohl (born c. 1948) is a Canadian concert promoter. He is the president of Toronto-based music promotional company The BCL Group (Ballard Cohl Labatt). Although he started out in the business at the age of 18 running a strip club, he made his reputation in 1989 by buying the concert, sponsorship, merchandising, radio, television, and film rights to The Rolling Stones' Steel Wheels Tour. The tour became the most financially successful rock tour in history.

Birhan Woldu (born circa 1981) is an Ethiopian famed for being the starving child, near death, shown in a video at Live Aid in 1985. Woldu was originally found in 1984 by a CBC documentary crew led by Tony Burman, then became the iconic symbol that rallied the world to address the Ethiopian Famine. British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the image of her face "changed his life." In 2004, …

Dick Parry (born December 22, 1942 in Kentford, Suffolk, England) is an English saxophonist. He has appeared as a session musician on various albums by modern bands and artists, and is probably most famous for his solo parts on the Pink Floyd songs "Money", "Us and Them", and "Shine On You Crazy Diamond". He started his career as a friend of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, and was part of a mid-1960's band called Joker's Wild.

Louis Bertignac is a French guitarist, vocalist and songwriter.An ex Shakin' Street member and A founding member in 1976 of the rock band Téléphone, he formed Bertignac et les Visiteurs after Téléphone split in 1986. Tony Visconti produced his first solo album, "Elle et Louis" (1993). In 2004, he produced, arranged and played guitar on the debut album by Carla Bruni, "Quelqu'un m'a dit".

Coco Mbassi is a female artist originating from Cameroon, and born in Paris, France, in 1969. Winner of the Radio France Internationale Découvertes Prize in 2001 with the song "Muenge Mwa Ndolo", she toured worldwide and her first album, "Sepia", was released in 2001. Nominated in 2002 for the BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards, this album won the German World Music CD Critics' Awards, and her second album "Sisea" was released in 2003.

Tim Renwick (born August 7, 1949 in Cambridgeshire, England) is an English guitarist.

Lemon (Real name Andrew Anderson) (1975-) (official website: www.lemonshood.com) was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City. Lemon is a critically acclaimed poet, spokenword artist, and actor. As a poet he has the most aired episodes on HBO's Def Poetry, eight times in six seasons, and was an original cast member of the TONY Award winning Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway.

Paul Vallely CMG is a leading British writer on Africa and development issues. He first coined, in his seminal 1990 book "Bad Samaritans: First World Ethics and Third World Debt", the expression that campaigners needed to move "from charity to justice" – a slogan that was taken up by Jubilee 2000 and Live 8. Vallely was the "The Times" correspondent in Ethiopia during the great famine of 1984/5.

Lethal Bizzle (also known as Lethal B, born Maxwell Ansah) 23, is a rapper from, Walthamstow, East London, born to Ghanaian parents. In December 2004 he released the single "Pow (Forward)", also known as "Forward Riddim", which was banned from airplay by some mainstream stations; it entered the UK Singles Chart at number 11 in the first chart of 2005 and number one on the UK Dance Chart. Whilst he was a part of the group More Fire Crew, …

Hunterz is an English urban musician with Arabic, Hindi and Bhangra influences. After co-producing Slave II Fusion, he made his solo producing debut in 1999 with No Limits. However, he had no part in the singing. His vocal debut came in 2003 with the bhangra album "Most Wanted". The second album to bear his name was "Phat Trax Vol. 1: Blazin", completed in 2004, which had a more urban flavour in comparison to Most Wanted's international style.

James Steven Ignatius 'Jim' Corr (born July 31 1964) is the guitarist for the Irish folk rock band "The Corrs". He is also the eldest and the only male sibling in the group. Standing at 5'8", he is the tallest of the group. He also plays acoustic and electric guitar as well as piano, keyboard, and background vocals. He has also had an active role in the production aspects of all of their albums to present date, …

Javier Weyler (born 3 july, 1975 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is the drummer for the Welsh based rock group Stereophonics. Javier was born in Argentina but lived most of his life in Caracas, Venezuela. He was given his first drum kit at thirteen and by seventeen was playing professionally with his band Claroscuro, releasing an EP and two albums with them. He moved to London to study Audio Engineering at the SAE Institute in 2000.

Damon Minchella (born 1 June 1969, in Liverpool) is a British bass guitarist, formerly with Ocean Colour Scene, which he left in 2003. He regularly plays in Paul Weller's backing band, is a member of the supergroup The Players and played for The Who during their performance at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park.

Ryan Jarman is a guitarist with British indie-rock band The Cribs. In 2006 he turned down the chance of producing McFly's album, but he has already proven himself as a creditable producer after the self produced "New Fellas" reached high in the UK charts. He has made numerous TV appearences including Never Mind The Buzzcocks, where he claimed to have created Live 8.

Sir Thomas Blane Hunter is a Scottish businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.

Chris Gorman is a serial entrepreneur who lives in Renfrewshire in Scotland. He grew up in Hartlepool. He was an organiser of the Live 8 concert in Edinburgh. A serial entrepreneur, Chris Gorman has headed several highly successful ventures in technology and retail businesses. A founder shareholder in UK mobile phone retailer DX Communications which was sold in 1999, Chris then went on to create the internet services company, Reality Solutions, …

Dominic Mohan (b. 26 May 1969) is a British journalist from Bristol, England. He is the Associate Editor of "The Sun" newspaper in London. He joined "The Sun" in 1995 and became well known as the Showbiz Editor, and face of the "Bizarre" column. He was recruited by Andy Coulson, former editor of "News of the World". Mohan conceived the idea of re-recording Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in 2004, …

Robert Frederick Xenon Geldof, KBE, known as Bob Geldof (born 5 October 1951), is an Irish singer, songwriter, actor and political activist

Danbert Nobacon, real name Nigel Hunter, was vocalist and keyboard player of the Leeds based anarchist band Chumbawamba. He is currently pursuing a solo career. Nobacon has long aired his views through his music, producing cassettes in the early 1980s that featured songs exploring his views on anarchism, ecology and personal relationships. Despite being a member of Chumbawamba, the first vinyl release on their own Sky and Trees label was Nobacon's acoustic solo album, …

Grant Random is a DJ for XM Satellite Radio's SquiZZ. He is on from 6 PM - 12 AM ET weeknights. Every night at 9 PM ET, Grant hosts The Random Selection, which is any song that he decides to play at that time period for the entire week, and invites listeners to share their opinions on the song. When XM broadcast Live 8 in 2005, Grant co-hosted the Philadelphia concert with XMU's Tobi.

South African reggae star. Shot and killed by thieves who were trying to steal his car.