Moscow added to Live 8 concerts

Moscow has been added to the lineup of the Live 8 concerts on Saturday, which aim to put pressure on world leaders meeting next week to do more to alleviate extreme poverty. The Red Square show, which will feature English band the Pet Shop Boys and several Russian acts, completes the organizers’ goal of having a concert in each of the Group of 8 nations.

The concerts will kick off in Tokyo in the east and end in Philadelphia and near Toronto in the west, taking in Johannesburg, Paris, Berlin, Rome, London and Moscow on the way.

Live 8 will also get a financial injection from music fans who participate in a fundraising program sponsored by concert promoter Clear Channel Music Group. Lawn seats for more than 400 concerts at 42 U.S. amphitheaters operated by Clear Channel will be sold for $18 Saturday through Monday. A donation of $1 from each transaction will be donated to the Live 8 Foundation.

Among the Southern California concerts included in the offer, which represents a $2 reduction in the standard lawn price, are Judas Priest, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and the Backstreet Boys (all at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater) and the Eminem/50 Cent Anger Management Tour and Ozzfest (at Hyundai Pavilion).