A big benefit concert Fire Fight Australia raised close to A$10 million ($6.7 million for fire relief, drawing a record 1.5 million viewers across its domestic broadcast partners. Dozens of local and international acts performed at the 10-hour concert, more than 70,000 people attended the concert to hear from artists like Queen, Alice Cooper, Olivia Newton-John, John Farnham, Jessica Mauboy, k.d. Lang, Peter Murray, Conrad Sewell and Daryl Braithwaite.

Queen and Adam Lambert, Alice Cooper, k.d. lang, Olivia Newton-John and John Farnham will play the Sydney’s ANZ Stadium for a massive bushfire relief concert, to be held February 16. All profits and contributions will go to Australian wildfires relief efforts. Also confirmed for the Fire Fight Australia concert are numerous homegrown artists.

Elton John has been appointed to the Queen's Order of the Companions of Honour in the New Year Honours list for a remarkable music career and his services to charity. He becomes one of only 65 people apart from the monarch who can hold the honour at any one time. Apart from him, Olivia Newton-John, […]