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40 Years After Live Aid, It’s Still Personal for Bob Geldof
To mark the Live Aid anniversary, the BBC and CNN have co-produced a documentary series, “Live Aid: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took On the World.” It also covers Band Aid and Live 8, concerts that Geldof organized in 2005 that helped pressure the world’s richest countries to cut the debt owed by the poorest countries and increase aid spending.
Forty years ago, music history was made when simultaneous concerts in London and Philadelphia raised money for famine relief.
CNN’s original four-part series takes music fans behind the scenes of the benefit concert that featured performances by Queen ...
Live Aid's historic 1985 concerts at Wembley and JFK stadiums featured icons like Queen and Madonna while raising funds for Ethiopian famine relief, reaching 1.9 billion viewers.
"They didn't invite us so we did our own thing," he says. "We made ourselves proud that we could put in whatever small fee to ...
The Live Aid Musical” in London, Brian May looks back on Queen’s legendary performance. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press.
On July 13, 1985, musicians and celebrities gathered at arenas in London and Philadelphia to hold a 16-hour Live Aid concert, ...
Live Aid did raise millions for famine relief, with some political ripple effects. It inspired the set-up of the US President ...
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Also at the multiplex is “Eddington,” a dark comedy billed as a contemporary Western starring Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone and ...
1.9 billion: Number of people who reportedly watched the Live Aid broadcast. (Likely exaggerated.) The most popular ...
Forty years after Live Aid, U2’s Bono recalled the ‘bad hair day’ he had at the charity concert in 1985. ‘One of the most ...
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