On September 11, 2005, Arcade Fire appeared on the long-running BBC music series Top of the Pops , performing “Rebellion (Lies)”.
On September 9, 2005, the band appeared on the British/US television special “Fashion Rocks”, on which David Bowie joined them for “Wake Up”.
As part of their promotion of the album in Latin America, the band was interviewed in September 2005 on the live-action Mexican show Rebelde .
On 27 August 2005, the band played a concert for 120,000 people in Frogner Park in Oslo, the largest concert ever in Norway.
The album has sold approximately 5.5 million copies worldwide. In the UK, it stayed in the top 75 of the UK Albums Chart for 72 weeks, appearing again on its 115th week. Post-release, the band released singles from the album ” Bedshaped ,” ” This Is the Last Time ”…
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With these releases their fanbase continued to grow and on 25 July 2005 their debut album The Back Room was released to critical acclaim and commercial success.
As members of the Make Poverty History , Keane performed “Somewhere Only We Know” and “Bedshaped” at the Live 8 concert, which took place in London on 2 July 2005. Keane are also patrons of War Child , and in September 2005, they recorded a cover version of Elton John…
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After a world tour in early 2005, Duran Duran were presented with the PRS Outstanding Contribution to British Music at the 2005 Ivor Novello Awards. Later that summer, the band headlined the massive Live 8 concert, Rome on 2 July 2005 in the Circus Maximus .
On 2 July 2005, A-ha performed at the Berlin edition of Live 8 in front of an audience of nearly 200,000 people. They began with “Hunting High and Low”, followed by “Take On Me”, during which Morten Harket had difficulties hearing himself when his in-ear monitor failed: he requested a…
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and in June the band released a new single, ” Cold Wind “, on Six Feet Under, Vol. 2: Everything Ends .