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- Live Aid was a multi-venue benefit concert and music-based fundraising initiative held on Saturday, 13 July 1985.
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Live Aid was a multi-venue benefit concert and music-based fundraising initiative held on Saturday, 13 July 1985. The original event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise further funds for relief of the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia, a movement that started with the release of the successful charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
2 days ago · Live Aid was a benefit concert held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London and JFK Stadium in Philadelphia on July 13, 1985. The concert drew an estimated 1.5 billion television viewers and raised millions of dollars for famine relief in Ethiopia.
Once upon a time, in the mid-1980s, the world witnessed a phenomenon that would change charity concerts forever – Live Aid. It was more than just a musical event, it was a globe-spanning, rock-and-roll revolution that united the world in a common cause.
Jul 3, 2022 · Live Aid, which took place on July 13, 1985 for a global audience of 1.9 billion people, was a massive, bicontinental pop concert created to raise money for Ethiopian famine relief. It was the...
- Kenneth Partridge
Nov 24, 2009 · Live Aid was the brainchild of Bob Geldof, the singer of an Irish rock group called the Boomtown Rats. In 1984, Geldof traveled to Ethiopia after hearing news reports of a horrific famine...
- Missy Sullivan
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Oct 2, 2024 · The brainchild of musicians Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, Live Aid was an ambitious, multi-venue benefits concert created to raise funds for the relief of the 1983 – 1985 famine in Ethiopia.
Apr 5, 2000 · Live Aid: The show that rocked the world. Stark images of millions of people starving to death in Ethiopia, revealed by Michael Buerk's BBC news reports on the 1984 famine, shocked Britain. Pop...
