Musician, Sting (L) and Recording Artist, Common, perform on stage at the 2015 Global Citizen Festival to end extreme poverty by 2030 in Central Park on September 26, 2015 in New York City.
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It’s too hard to highlight just one.
Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has signed up as a curator of the event for the next 15 years with Richard Curtis as creative director.
Coldplay was the first group to bring out a surprise guest.
“We are running out of time”, Leonardo DiCaprio told the crowd.
The answer was Ariana Grande.
The “Redemption Song” performance was punctuated by video of Nelson Mandela giving a speech about humanity overcoming extreme poverty while Vedder continued strumming and Beyonce harmonized under the former South African president’s words.
Lyrics contained in the song included, “And the view”.
“It’s not that there is lack of money in this world”, she said.
During her empowering set, the 34-year-old entertainer was joined on stage by Ed Sheeran for a duet of “Drunk In Love“.
Perhaps the most notable of those covers come from Ed Sheeran himself, who has performed the song during more than one radio interview.
LOUISA and Martin have their first therapy session together – though neither of them was expecting they would be given homework – while Morwenna is not happy about it when a teenager on work experience starts trying to boss her around in the surgery.
Pearl Jam’s 12-song performance began with “Mind Your Manners”, one of two songs played in NYC pulled from 2013’s Lightning Bolt LP. Eddie Vedder’s growl is still as raw as ever, and his crowd banter is just as delightfully random. They dedicated the song to 18-year-old Nobel Prize victor Malala Yousafzai, who was also in attendance. And that protecting universal rights is equally universal, because it is – everybody in the world should be treated with dignity.
Fans wishing to attend the New York festival are directed to the Global Citizen website, and then tasked with completing “action journeys”.
The White House majorly supported the festival.
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Beyonce had another honor during the festival when she introduced First Lady Michelle Obama. She requested the viewers to tweet pictures of themselves with the hashtag #62MillionGirls and say what you discovered in class. Obama stated she discovered the best way to “converse up” in class.
