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Queen are asked to play Live Aid-style gig to help Australia bushfire victims – Sky News, Sky.com

Queen are asked to play Live Aid-style gig to help Australia bushfire victims – Sky News, Sky.com


             

Queen have been asked to play a Live Aid-style benefit gig to help support victims of the devastating wildfires in Australia, the band’s guitarist Brian May has revealed.

the environmental activist, 72, will visit the country with the group, fronted by Adam Lambert, in February as part of a world stadium tour.

With thebushfiresstill raging after several months, at least people have been killed, 2, 01 homes have been destroyed and millions of animals are feared to have died, with an area about half the size of Great Britain scorched.

    

        

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Stars including Kylie Minogue, Chris Hemsworth, Margot Robbie, Sir Elton John, Pink and Nicole Kidman are among the celebritiesdonating millions of dollars to help the unprecedented crisis.

Concert promoters TEG Live and TEG Dainty announced benefit gig Fire Fight Australia to raise funds earlier this week, with the show confirmed for Sunday 18 February amid much speculation about who will perform.

Asked whether Queen would be playing in a fundraising show during their time in the country, May said on Wednesday that fans might see a repeat of the band’s famous performance during Live Aid at Wembley Stadium in .

“Of course, we are going there very soon,” he said. “We are looking at it very carefully.

“We have been approached to do a benefit concert, or be part of a benefit concert, a bit like Live Aid, if you like, to try and help out the victims of the fire.

“Of course, I am very concerned about the animals. There’s people who have died which is a tragedy in itself, but half a billion animals is almost inconceivable. “

May described the devastation to wildlife as “like a mass extinction”.

“You are looking at a radical change of wildlife in Australia,” he said. “It’s like a mass extinction, which is something so awful.

” And we can do nothing about it really. We could have done something about it in the past.

“We know there are various things that could have been done. But it is a real caution for the rest of the world.”

  

***       Lead singer of Queen, Freddie Mercury on stage.Image:         Queen’s Live Aid set in 2000 is widely regarded as the show’s most memorable performance       

  

***       Lead singer of Queen, Freddie Mercury on stage.Image:         May on stage with Freddie Mercury (pictured on a screen) during a show in      

Queen have seven gigs scheduled in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide and the Gold Coast from to

February, with their schedule currently clear on February.

May said there is no official announcement about a benefit show yet as “we don’t know what the situation will be “in six weeks, but that the band” are looking at doing something like that. “

The musician spoke about Australia’s crisis outside parliament in Westminster, where he was promoting the Save Me Trust’s Amazing Grace Campaign to help Britain’s hedgehogs.

  

***       Lead singer of Queen, Freddie Mercury on stage.Image:         May with the Save Me Trust’s mascot, Grace the Hedgehog      

As co-founder of the animal welfare organization, he was joined by its chief executive Anne Brummer and Tracey Crouch, Conservative MP for Chatham and Aylesford, who is the body’s hedgehog champion.

The scheme is also backed by Michael Gove, the former environment secretary.

May defended Mr Gove’s record on the environment, saying he had got “a lot of stick” for being a Conservative.

“Michael Gove is already enlisted,” he said. “He has been very supportive.

” It is fair to say that he gets a lot of stick for just being a Tory, I suppose, and historically Tories have not been great and have not been green .

“But Michael Gove has done more for the environment than any of the recent ministers of the environment, already taking great steps.”

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