That Mandela Aids benefit concert which was cancelled at the start of the year might just happen after all – with a November date being muted. The original gig was due to take place last month at Robben Island (the prison where Mandela was held which is now a museum) and would have been beamed into a stadium in Cape Town. But the Mandela Foundation pulled the plug when it lost confidence in the promoters who were to stage the event.
The rescheduled event, plus a charity album to be launched at the same time, is being planned by Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor, and former Eurythmic Dave Stewart. Plans and line up are currently very vague, though Queen, Bono, Elton John and Coldplay were among the line up for the original date.