POP/ROCK - Sept. 7, 1987

Pop stars ranging from Boy George to Eric Clapton will take part in a two-day music festival Sept. 26-27 aimed at raising money for the families of victims of the Hungerford shooting in which 16 people were killed last month, organizers said Saturday. Concert backers include Imagination, Rick Wakeman, Elvis Costello and Madness. Mass murderer Michael Ryan, 27, shot dead 16 people, including his mother, on Aug. 19 in his southern English hometown of Hungerford before killing himself. It was Britain’s worst peacetime massacre.