Last year I wrote a rather cynical column about the reworking of the Live Aid song, and questioned whether it had the same meaning 20 years later. Therefore I was somewhat surprised to find myself among the 200,000 people who converged on Hyde Park last week to watch the Live 8 concert.
Sir Bob had rung the week before saying: "C'mon Claire, I read your column every week and we need you to introduce Robbie Williams." Yeah, right.
I embarrassed myself on being offered a ticket to such an amazing event by coming out in a dose of the hives about toilet facilities and crowds, and then I thought about all the people without clean water and food, and why it was being done in the first place.
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