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Live Earth is Al Gore’s campaign launch

James Forsyth

Wednesday, 4th July 2007

The eco-concert is the apogee of Gore's reinvention as a non-politician celebrity, says James Forsyth. But this advantage would evaporate if he were to re-enter conventional politics

Al Gore makes an unlikely rock star. He’s a natural-born wonk, and the only rock star he physically resembles is Elvis — in his later, bloated, cheeseburger phase. But on Saturday, Al Gore will be the main attraction at a climate-change jamboree that features 100 musicians and reaches across seven continents to a potential worldwide audience of more than two billion people. It is a turn of events that few would have predicted when Gore limped off the stage in 2000, an unloved and defeated presidential candidate.

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