Linkin Park Headlines Live Earth Tokyo

Linkin Park Headlines Live Earth Tokyo

May 28, 2007

The 24-Hour, 7-Continent Concert Series to Combat Global
Warming Expected to Reach Over 2 Billion People on 7/7/07

Full Artist Lineup and Ticketing Information for Live Earth
Tokyo
To be Announced May 29

    LOS ANGELES, May 28 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Grammy
Award-winning band Linkin Park will headline the Tokyo leg
of the 24-hour, 7-continent Live Earth concert series on
July 7, 2007, organizers announced today. The full artist
lineup and ticketing information for Live Earth Tokyo,
which is being staged at Makuhari Messe, will be announced
on May 29.

    Released last week, Linkin Park's latest album, Minutes
to Midnight is currently number one on the Billboard 200
with the biggest sales debut of 2007. Minutes to Midnight
follows the band's 2003 album Meteora, which also topped
the Billboard charts and sold over 11 million copies
worldwide. Linkin Park debuted in 2000 with Hybrid Theory,
an album that sold 24 million copies worldwide and
catapulted the band to international stardom.

    Linkin Park has been leading the charge against climate
change with MUSIC FOR RELIEF, the foundation the band
established in 2005 to aid the victims of the tsunami in
South Asia. The organization now aims to mobilize the music
community and music fans to help with various causes around
the world, primarily disaster response and a proactive
campaign to weaken and decelerate future natural disasters
by raising awareness about the environmental consequences
of climate change and our responsibility to reduce
greenhouse gasses and develop alternate, renewable forms of
energy. 

    "Climate crisis awareness could be one of the
defining issues of our generation, and we're proud to play
this show in support of that effort," said Mike
Shinoda, Linkin Park band member.

    Linkin Park joins other headliners such as Madonna, Bon
Jovi, The Police, Sheryl Crow, Kelly Clarkson, Red Hot Chili
Peppers, Kanye West, Melissa Etheridge, Beastie Boys,
Smashing Pumpkins, John Mayer, Faith Hill, Black Eyed Peas,
Foo Fighters, Fall Out Boy, Duran Duran, and many more, in
playing Live Earth.

    Live Earth was founded by Kevin Wall, the Emmy
award-winning producer of Live 8, to bring together more
than 100 of the world's top music acts to engage an
audience of over two billion people with solutions to the
climate crisis.  Live Earth seeks to inspire its global
audience to make meaningful and lasting changes in their
lives and spur action by corporations and governments to
turn the tide on global warming.

    "The goal of Live Earth is to reach the largest
audience possible with tools to tackle the climate
crisis," said Wall. "Linkin Park's participation
is an incredible boost to these efforts, and we hope their
millions of fans worldwide will tune in to Live Earth on
7/7/7 and join our movement."

    The Live Earth concert series will begin in Sydney,
Australia and continue across all 7 continents with events
in Tokyo, Japan; Shanghai, China; Johannesburg, South
Africa; London, United Kingdom; Hamburg, Germany; Istanbul,
Turkey; and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, before concluding in New
York, United States.

    Live Earth marks the beginning of a multi-year campaign
led by the Alliance for Climate Protection and other
international non-governmental organizations to move
individuals, corporations and governments to take action to
solve global warming. Former Vice President of the United
States Al Gore is the Chair of the Alliance for Climate
Protection and a Partner of Live Earth.

    Live Earth is being produced globally by Control Room,
of which Kevin Wall is the CEO. Control Room has produced
and distributed more than 60 concerts since its founding in
2005 featuring Beyonce, Madonna, Green Day and the Rolling
Stones, among others.


    For more information, please contact: 

    Yusef K. Robb
    Live Earth
    Tel:   [phone]
    Email: [e-mail]
    
    Linkin Park Press Representative
    Dvora Vener Englefield
    Tel:   [phone]
    Email: [e-mail]