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The
Wireless Festival is a music
festival in England that takes place
every year in Hyde Park, London, and
took place at Harewood House, Leeds
in 2006 and 2007. It is owned and
managed by Live Nation. From its
inception in 2005 until 2008, the
festival was sponsored by
telecommunications company O2, and
was called the O2 Wireless Festival.
Since 2009 the main sponsor has been
Barclaycard and the festival renamed
to simply Wireless Festival. The
Wireless Festival will be held
from Friday 1 July to Sunday 3 July
. Tickets are £48.50
(Saturday/Sunday) or £49.50 (Friday)
for one day, £92 for two and £130
for three days. Pulp are reforming
after ten years to play this and
other festivals in .
Hyde
Park is one of the largest parks in
central London, United Kingdom and
one of the Royal Parks of London,
famous for its Speakers' Corner. The
park is divided in two by the
Serpentine. The park is contiguous
with Kensington Gardens; although
often still assumed to be part of
Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens has
been technically separate since
1728, when Queen Caroline made a
division between the two. Hyde Park
covers 142 hectares (350 acres) and
Kensington Gardens covers 111
hectares (275 acres), giving an
overall area of 253 hectares (625
acres), making the combined area
larger than the Principality of
Monaco (196 ha/484 acres), though
smaller than New York City's Central
Park (341 ha/843 acres). To the
southeast, outside of the park, is
Hyde Park Corner. Although, during
daylight, the two parks merge
seamlessly into each other,
Kensington Gardens closes at dusk
but Hyde Park remains open
throughout the year from 5 am until
midnight.
Sites
of interest in the park include
Speakers' Corner (located in the
northeast corner near Marble Arch),
close to the former site of the
Tyburn gallows, and Rotten Row,
which is the northern boundary of
the site of the Crystal Palace.
South of the Serpentine is the
Diana, Princess of Wales memorial,
an oval stone ring fountain opened
on 6 July 2004. To the east of the
Serpentine, just beyond the dam, is
London's Holocaust Memorial. Another
memorial in the Park commemorates
the victims of the 7/7 terrorist
attacks, in the form of 52 steel
pillars, one for each of the dead.
Hyde Park has been the venue for
some famous rock concerts, including
the major location for the Live 8
string of benefit concerts. Queen
played here in one of their most
popular shows, in 1976. It is
estimated that between 150–200
thousand people turned up for the
event. However, the record concert
attendance is probably for the 1969
concert by the Rolling Stones.
According to much of the press, the
crowd then was estimated between
250,000 and 500,000. Also Blur
played here as part of their
reunion. They released a live album
recorded at the park called All the
People: Blur Live at Hyde Park.
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