July 2005 - With the world-wide Live 8 concerts having put the African issue on page 1 in the newspapers all over the globe, the G8 meeting in Gleneagles has finished with the group of Eight pledging to cancel the debt of 18 of the world's poorest countries under good governance and doubling foreign aid to 50 billion US dollars in the next five years. Live 8 organiser Sir Bob Geldof Judged the results a considerable victory for the Make Poverty History movement. Hundreds of thousands of people had attended the ten concerts, with billions watching on TV or via the Internet. Sennheiser was the official microphone sponsor, providing manpower and equipment to the concerts in London, Paris, Rome, Philadelphia and Berlin.

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Rolf Meyer, speaker of the Sennheiser Executive Committee, summed up the company's commitment, "Requiring more than 1500 hours of planning and labour and in excess of one million Euros worth of equipment, the co-operation of each of the involved subsidiaries and the German headquarters was an absolute must. More than 300 channels of Sennheiser wireless and well over 1000 wired microphones had to be shuffled around the planet as needed. Everything from an extra man for the Canadian team that came from Germany to special equipment for Madonna, Dido and Faithless that had to be co-ordinated between the US, Canada, UK, France and Germany plus much more had to be sorted out in just three weeks."