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Get ready for a 24-hour worldwide summer extravaganza on July 7, 2007.

That's when Save Our Selves : The Campaign for a Climate in Crisis hopes to trigger a broader movement to address what former Vice President Al Gore calls a "planetary emergency."

The catalyst behind Live Earth is an Oscar winner for "An Inconvenient Truth", a film that spells out the dire consequences of global warming.

In a statement announcing the event, Gore said "The climate crisis will only be stopped by an unprecedented and sustained global movement. We hope to jump-start that movement right here, right now, and take it to a new level on July 7, 2007."

To bring Live Earth to the worldwide stage on seven continents, Gore is working shoulder-to-shoulder with Kevin Wall, who produced the Live 8 concert in 2005, as well as stars from the entertainment world, including producer-rapper Pharrell Williams and actress Cameron Diaz.

As part of the effort, the team is bringing together more than 100 of the world's top musical performers, in much the way Bob Geldof did for Live Aid and Willie Nelson did for Farm Aid.

Performers

So far, top music stars scheduled to perform at Live Earth include the Police, Smashing Pumpkins, Roger Waters, Fall Out Boy and Kanye West who will be among the headliners for the U.S. at Giants Stadium in New Jersey.

The U.S. show will also feature Alicia Keys, Ludacris, Kelly Clarkson, Bon Jovi, the Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer and KT Tunstall. Other stars slated to perform at the U.S. venue include Snoop Dogg, Lenny Kravitz, Sheryl Crow, Melissa Etheridge, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw.

In the UK, Madonna, Genesis, The Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, James Blunt, Snow Patrol, Bloc Party, Keanne, the Black Eyed Peas, Corinne Bailey Rae, Damien Rice, David Gray, Duran Duran, Foo Fighters, John Legend, Paolo Nutini, Razorlight and others are set to play at Wembley Stadium in London.

Where

Elsewhere, Live Earth concerts will take place in Sydney's Aussie Stadium; Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach; Johannesburg's Cradle of Human Kind; Tokyo's Tokyo Stadium; Hamburg's HSH Nordbank Arena, and on the steps of the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai, China.

The campaign even plans to stage the first-ever rock concert on Antarctica, to focus attention on the consequences of glacial meltdown, with scientists at the British
Antarctic Survey performing at the Rothera Research Station. In fact, it'll be the first time anyone outside the station has heard the indie rock-folk band, Nunatak, play outside Antartica.

TV and On the Web

2 billion people are expected watch either through attendance at live venues, or at home via TV broadcasts as well as online at MSN Live Earth.

In the UK, the BBC is planning total coverage on BBC One, BBC Two and BBC Radio featuring the live London broadcast as well as highlights from Sydney, Rio de Janeiro, Shanghai, Johannesburg, Tokyo and the US.

In the U.S., tune into NBC for complete live coverage and in Canada, turn the dial to CTV.

More about Live Earth around the Web:

Live Earth Blog

BBC - World climate change gigs planned

Bon Jovi, Peppers, Peas Orbit Gore's Live Earth

Gore plans to rock against warming

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