The Secret Policeman's Balls is the collective name informally used to describe the long-running series of benefit shows staged in England to raise funds for the human rights organisation Amnesty International. The shows started out in the mid-1970s primarily as comedy galas featuring popular British comedic performers and later expanded to include leading musical performers.

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  • The Secret Policeman's Balls is the collective name informally used to describe the long-running series of benefit shows staged in England to raise funds for the human rights organisation Amnesty International. The shows started out in the mid-1970s primarily as comedy galas featuring popular British comedic performers and later expanded to include leading musical performers. The shows have yielded movies, TV specials, home-videos, albums and books that have been distributed worldwide and had a considerable international impact. The Secret Policeman's Ball shows and their spin-offs are credited by many prominent entertainers with having galvanised them to become involved with Amnesty and other social and political causes in succeeding years.[1] Musicians such as Bob Geldof, Bono, Sting and Peter Gabriel have credited the shows with inspiring benefit events that they subsequently helped organise such as Live Aid and Live 8 - and triggering their activism leading to social issue organisations with which they are associated including the Band Aid Trust, the Live Aid Foundation, the Witness human rights group, The Rainforest Foundation, the ONE Campaign, the Debt, AIDS & Trade in Africa DATA charity and the Global Elders. To date there have been four distinct eras of the Amnesty benefit shows. The first era (1976-1981) featured internationally-known British performers and were widely seen and heard internationally via theatrical films, TV specials, home-videos and record albums. The three subsequent eras (1987-1989, 1991-2001 and 2006 onwards) have featured primarily British performers popular in their homeland - and the spin-off products have been released mainly just in the UK.
  • Der Secret Policeman's Ball war eine Veranstaltung zu Gunsten von Amnesty International. Er fand erstmals 1976 statt. Beim "Pleasure at her Majesty's" traten Musiker und Komiker aus ganz England auf. Wie bei den späteren von Bob Geldof veranstalteten Live Aid und Live8 Konzerten traten auch beim Secret Policeman's Ball alle Künstler ohne Gage auf. Der Erlös der Shows ging vollständig an Amnesty International. Insgesamt gab es sechs Shows.
  • The Secret Policeman's Ball är en återkommande humorgala i London till föremål för Amnesty International.
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  • The Secret Policeman's Balls is the collective name informally used to describe the long-running series of benefit shows staged in England to raise funds for the human rights organisation Amnesty International. The shows started out in the mid-1970s primarily as comedy galas featuring popular British comedic performers and later expanded to include leading musical performers.
  • Der Secret Policeman's Ball war eine Veranstaltung zu Gunsten von Amnesty International. Er fand erstmals 1976 statt. Beim "Pleasure at her Majesty's" traten Musiker und Komiker aus ganz England auf. Wie bei den späteren von Bob Geldof veranstalteten Live Aid und Live8 Konzerten traten auch beim Secret Policeman's Ball alle Künstler ohne Gage auf. Der Erlös der Shows ging vollständig an Amnesty International. Insgesamt gab es sechs Shows.
  • The Secret Policeman's Ball är en återkommande humorgala i London till föremål för Amnesty International.
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