Featuring: Some of the biggest names in pop and rock.
The concerts: Spread over four discs, this set cherry-picks about 10 hours of live music from this summer's nine, near-simultaneous Live8 concerts, run under the banner 'Make Poverty History' - specifically in Africa.
The event's name is a play on the G8 organisation of world leaders (which was holding a summit in Scotland a week after the concerts) and Live Aid (which, 20 years previously, to the day, raised more than US$150 million for famine relief). But Live 8 wasn't so much about fund-raising (the concert tickets were free) as consciousness-raising. The idea was to put pressure on the leaders of the richest countries to adopt annual budgets for African famine relief and to cancel the debts of Africa's impoverished nations. At the G8 summit, undertakings for both these agendas were signed.
This DVD, however, is about raising funds - a percentage of profits from sales will go to charities working in Africa.
The discs follow a chronology of the event, which started in London's Hyde Park with Paul McCartney's rendition of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, with the help of U2. Several of the performers' complete sets are featured. Others appear on only one or two tracks.
If it was Queen who got the British crowd clapping in unison in 1985, this time it was Robbie Williams - who cheekily nods to the late Freddie Mercury & Co by beginning his set with their We Will Rock You. Madonna wasn't far behind in getting the crowd going in London, particularly with a 10-minute version of Music.