MEGASTARS COME OUT FOR MANCHESTER
Ariana, Bieber, Coldplay, Miley, Katy Perry, Take That and Pharrell in Live Aid-style concert on TV
A SENSATIONAL line-up of pop’s biggest stars will join Ariana Grande in Manchester this weekend for a benefit concert to honour the city’s suicide bomb victims.
The mega-gig, to be shown live on TV, will let the world know: “We won’t let hate win.”
ARIANA Grande will return to Manchester this weekend with some of pop’s biggest stars for a benefit gig in honour of the city’s bomb victims.
A galaxy of music giants including Justin Bieber, Coldplay, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Pharrell Williams and Take That will perform.
They have vowed to turn the One Love Manchester concert into a “mother of all gigs”.
All proceeds will go to the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund, which has already raised £6million to help victims’ families.
Ariana was left “broken” after 22 of her fans were killed when terrorist Salman Abedi blew himself up at the end of her Manchester Arena gig last week.
Fifty survivors were still in hospital last night, with 17 in critical care. Ariana, 23, is returning to the city on Sunday – just 13 days after the atrocity – to perform again. Any of the 21,000 who were at her concert last week can go for free if they register with Ticketmaster before 4pm today. The gig will take place at Emirates Old Trafford cricket ground – three miles from the scene of the attack – and will be broadcast worldwide via the BBC. It was given the go-ahead after police assured organisers the terror threat had receded and they could guarantee the safety of performers and fans. Ariana, who cancelled the rest of her European tour and fled back to her Florida home in tears following last week’s atrocity, said: “Our response to this violence must be to come closer together, to help each other, to love more, to sing louder and to live more kindly and generously than we did before.“She said from the day she conceived the idea for her Dangerous Woman tour she wanted the show to be a “safe space for my fans – a place for them to escape, to celebrate, to heal, to feel safe, and to be themselves”. Tickets for the concert go on sale via Ticketmaster at 10am tomorrow.