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TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - Veteran rockers politician Browne, Alice Cooper, king balladeer and Graham Nash led an all-star goodness concert in metropolis on Thursday night that paid commendation to victims of the actuation rampage there in January.

The exhibit was organized by illustrator and Cooper to improve money for a foundation to encourage formality in the consequence of the shooting, which left six people dead and 13 others wounded, including Democratic U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords.

Other performers included vapors stars Sam Cooke, Keb' Mo' and a patron of topical talent.

"The full world's effort bigger, isn't it? Bigger in the heart," Keb' Mo' said on stage, tapping his dresser with one hand. "It starts in Tucson."

On his website, illustrator said the noncommercial foundation would hold "individuals and families strained by the Jan 8th actuation in Tucson, and module encourage formality and respect in open discourse, schools, and the community."

College dropout Jared Loughner, 22, is accused of opening blast with a semiautomatic pistol on Giffords and a gathering of bystanders attending a semipolitical event right a grocery accumulation on Jan 8.

The rampage sparked firm speaking in the United States about gun control and prompted soul intelligent over the vitriolic tenor of semipolitical debate, though no causative for the move has been offered by investigators.

The Fund for Civility, Respect and Understanding was launched by Ron Barber, a Giffords helper injured in the shooting. Some proceeds module be utilised to conflict aggression in schools and to clear for a open cognisance information for mental illness, he said.

The five-hour concert was held at the metropolis Convention Center, which lies across a agency from the federal courthouse where Loughner pleaded not blameable to an expanded, 49-count indictment on Wednesday.

(Reporting by Tim Gaynor; Editing by Jerry Norton and Bob Tourtellotte)