46664 – The Concert

Bono, Beyonce, Dave Stewart and The Edge performed ‘American Prayer’ and ‘46664 Long walk to freedom’ at Capetown’s Greenpoint Stadium in South Africa on Saturday.

bono-edge-capetown.jpg

Audio at U2exit.com: American Prayer, 46664, One, Amandla

Bono introduced the initiater of the 46664 campaign, Nelson Mandela. The former president told the audience that people with AIDS “are serving a prison term for life.”


Mr Mandela, who watched the full five hours of the show with his wife, saw international stars team up with local heroes. The Corrs harmonised with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Peter Gabriel — who had earlier duetted with Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens), sang alongside Johnny Clegg and Youssou N’dour joined Annie Lennox on stage for an empassioned performance of ‘Seven Seconds’.

Lennox had teamed up with Stewart for a Eurythmics reunion and surprised the audience with their classics ‘Here comes the rain again’ and ‘Sweet Dreams’.

Young British urban hero Ms Dynamite handed out condoms to the crowd. She performed a brand new song, ‘Don’t throw your life away’, to promote safe sex while South African newcomer Danny K. took the opportunity to plug his new single.

The Edge and Bono returned to the stage near the end of the show to play ‘One’. Bono placed a candle on top of a monitor and lit it, dedicating the song to a friend in Capetown who had died the previous day. As the song finished with ‘Unchained Melody’ they were joined by Anastacia, Beyonce and many others to sing Dave Stewart’s song ‘Amandla’.

Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor closed the show with a greatest hits medley and an all star finale of ‘We are the champions’.

The concert will be screened globally by MTV on World AIDS Day on December 1. www.46664.com will have an archive of the streamed performances on Monday.

  • The show’s setlist
  • Yahoo photos.
  • Reuters: World Pop stars perform at Mandela’s AIDS concert
  • BBC: Beyonce and Bono lead AIDS show
  • Sunday Times (SA) Bono and Beyonce visit AIDS clinic
  • IOL (SA) World stars shine on SA Aids clinics
  • LFI: Photos of the 46664 ball
  • Rex Features: Photos of 46664 concert
  • Rex Features: Photos of Robben Island tour
  • Rex Features: Photos of 46664 ball
  • Wire Image: Concert photos
  • Getty Images: 46664 Portraits
  • Globe Photos

    (older)
    Bono and The Edge will be playing live at the 46664 concert in Cape Town South Africa this Saturday evening. You can tune in to the three-hour event through the campaign’s website. Other artists on the bill include Peter Gabriel, Eurythmics and Ms Dynamite. The live web broadcast starts at 17.00 GMT, 12.00 EST, 18.00 CET.

  • IOL.co.za: Cape Town gears up for 46664
  • BBC: Live global webcast for AIDS gig
  • CNN: Stars give S. Africa AIDS benefit

    • 58 thoughts on “46664 – The Concert”

    1. I heard there will also be a telephonenumber you can call, with the chance you get one of the artists on the phone….So, call like a maniac, say hi to Bono or Edge and all that money you spend to get through will go to charity!

    2. I heard there will also be a telephonenumber you can call, with the chance you get one of the artists on the phone….So, call like a maniac, say hi to Bono or Edge and all that money you spend to get through will go to charity!

    3. Yeah Bono and Edge will be doing a number and they will also be doing a number with Beyonce. Dallas will be down there as well as I talked to him the night before they left for Capetown!

    4. Yeah Bono and Edge will be doing a number and they will also be doing a number with Beyonce. Dallas will be down there as well as I talked to him the night before they left for Capetown!

    7. Bono and The Edge were on at about a quarter to seven, UK time. Bono sang a duet of American Prayer with Beyonc

    8. Bono and The Edge were on at about a quarter to seven, UK time. Bono sang a duet of American Prayer with Beyonc

    13. I managed to capture most of the second song and Mandela’s speech using asfrecorder but I can’t get any players to play the file yet. Although they are reading the stream properties okay. :-S 🙁

    14. I managed to capture most of the second song and Mandela’s speech using asfrecorder but I can’t get any players to play the file yet. Although they are reading the stream properties okay. :-S 🙁

    17. Aw crap! I missed ’em by about 15 minutes, I’m away on vacation so I wasn’t going to stay in and I figured it’d be later. But are they coming back?? Andrea Corr’s been on for the better part of 45 minutes already. :-/

    18. Aw crap! I missed ’em by about 15 minutes, I’m away on vacation so I wasn’t going to stay in and I figured it’d be later. But are they coming back?? Andrea Corr’s been on for the better part of 45 minutes already. :-/

    23. Folks, the only real questions that matter:

      1) How was Bono’s hair?
      2) Which guitar did Edge choose to play?

    24. Folks, the only real questions that matter:

      1) How was Bono’s hair?
      2) Which guitar did Edge choose to play?

    25. Bono’s hair was having a quiet drink in a bar in downtown New York. The Edge chose the pink one, but Dallas forgot to bring it.

    26. Bono’s hair was having a quiet drink in a bar in downtown New York. The Edge chose the pink one, but Dallas forgot to bring it.

    27. Funniest quote from Bono – “These are all new songs. We didn’t wanna, you know, just trot out the same old bollocks.” Also amusing was the way he was making peace signs and other gestures in the background when the presenter woman was trying to do her “still to come” speech – the crowd kept reacting to Bono and obviously weren’t listening to the hostess at all!

    28. Funniest quote from Bono – “These are all new songs. We didn’t wanna, you know, just trot out the same old bollocks.” Also amusing was the way he was making peace signs and other gestures in the background when the presenter woman was trying to do her “still to come” speech – the crowd kept reacting to Bono and obviously weren’t listening to the hostess at all!

    31. Bono and The Edge are back… Bono showed his incompetence at lighting a candle (LOL) and now they’re performing One….

    32. Bono and The Edge are back… Bono showed his incompetence at lighting a candle (LOL) and now they’re performing One….

    39. Haha yeah, so much for not trotting out the same old bollocks – not that One could ever be described as bollocks. 😉 Love the way they tacked on Unchained Melody, ZooTV-style!

    40. Haha yeah, so much for not trotting out the same old bollocks – not that One could ever be described as bollocks. 😉 Love the way they tacked on Unchained Melody, ZooTV-style!

    47. The stream worked great! However, I wasn’t going to sit around and listen to speeches and Queen so I missed it. Call me a party poop but it seemed more like Mandela day instead of AIDS day…and I can’t help but feel like U2 are just grabbing at any vain attempt to feel like they’re one of us poor people when they’re obviously never going to experience life on OUR level ($18,000 – $40,000 per annum) ever again :p

    48. The stream worked great! However, I wasn’t going to sit around and listen to speeches and Queen so I missed it. Call me a party poop but it seemed more like Mandela day instead of AIDS day…and I can’t help but feel like U2 are just grabbing at any vain attempt to feel like they’re one of us poor people when they’re obviously never going to experience life on OUR level ($18,000 – $40,000 per annum) ever again :p

    51. Thoughts on Bono’s newer ending to “One”? “There’s no ‘them,’ there’s only us.” I like it, though it gets a little repetitive. He should throw in another line. Where were Adam and Larry?

    52. Thoughts on Bono’s newer ending to “One”? “There’s no ‘them,’ there’s only us.” I like it, though it gets a little repetitive. He should throw in another line. Where were Adam and Larry?

    57. Thought it was great that within two minutes Bono had the crowd singing along to a song they had never heard before. The true test of a great frontman, and it would do Freddie proud. (karaoke, just out of curiousity. why are you so sour and down on “U2”?)

    58. Thought it was great that within two minutes Bono had the crowd singing along to a song they had never heard before. The true test of a great frontman, and it would do Freddie proud. (karaoke, just out of curiousity. why are you so sour and down on “U2”?)

    Comments are closed.