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Bob Geldof produced one of the greatest feats in rock 'n' roll history with Live Aid. A new CNN series takes a deep dive.
While Live Aid was undoubtedly one of the most successful set of benefit concerts in history, many of the line up ...
On 13 July 1985, music united the world at Live Aid. Now, 40 years later, a must-see BBC series revisits the iconic concert – with stars like Bob Geldof, Bono, Sting and Midge Ure revealing the ...
Band Aid single and organised the 1985 Live Aid concerts, which raised funds for the cause. The 73-year-old, however, takes issue with being called a “white saviour”.
When Queen stole the show at Live Aid, Brian May and Roger Taylor sat with the royals and other rock stars but where was ...
Bob Geldof didn’t mince words about those in charge across the pond as he celebrated 40 years of Live Aid. “The thuggery of Musk, and Vance and Trump, this confederacy of dunces, these abject ...
We’re just a couple of weeks away from the 40th anniversary of Live Aid, the global mega-gig that set the template for charity stadium shows and took place on Saturday 13 July 1985. To mark the ...
Bob Geldof’s Live Aid concerts raised more than £114m for the famine in Ethiopia (Getty) “If there was a famine in Italy and someone reacts and they’re white, are they a white saviour?
As one News Journal reporter on scene noted, Live Aid was "the biggest one-day line-up of stars in rock music's 30-year ...
As Live Aid celebrates its 40th anniversary, Sir Bob Geldof has told how it wouldn’t work as a fund-raiser today because rock’n’roll no longer has the currency it did in the 1980s.
THE world will always remember 1985’s Live Aid as the global fundraiser organised by Bob Geldof. But the truth was, he could not have pulled off the mega rock concert without his then-girlfriend ...
Bob Geldof told Freddie Mercury to ‘just play the hits’ before legendary Live Aid performance Queen’s six-song set is often remembered as one of the greatest rock performances of all time ...