Fifty-five thousand free tickets to London’s Live 8 concert will be available starting Wednesday at 3 p.m. in London and other distribution centres outside the city. These tickets will allow people to see the concert on giant screens in Hyde Park.

Venues with additional tickets will reopen for distribution on Thursday at 10 a.m.

People will not be able to see the concert outside Hyde Park because area will be partitioned off. About 133,000 tickets were already distributed to people who will have direct views of the stage.

Live 8 organizer Bob Geldof said that Hyde Park will be completely filled and this will be the largest ticketed event in Britain.

Organizers said that they had extended the ending time for the concert from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

The July 2 event will include U2, Coldplay, Madonna and Paul McCartney.






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