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CNN’s original four-part series takes music fans behind the scenes of the benefit concert that featured performances by Queen ...
Artists who performed at Live Aid — Springfield, organizer Bob Geldof, Hall and Oates' John Oates and Judas Priest's Rob Halford — reflected on the event and its impact in interviews with The ...
Forty years ago this summer, a joint concert event between London and Philadelphia came together for famine relief in Africa.
It's been 40 years since musicians came together to raise money for foreign aid and reshaped attitudes towards international development.
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 famous moments of your life and your activism, you’ve got a ...
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.
U2’s Bono Regrets This 1 Thing About His 1985 Live Aid Charity Concert Performance “One of the most famous moments of your life and your activism, you’ve got a mullet,” Bono said in a new ...
NEED TO KNOW Forty years after Live Aid, U2’s Bono recalled the “bad hair day” he had during the charity concert in London in 1985 “One of the most famous moments of your life and your ...
Queen were the undoubted stars of Live Aid, stealing the show at Wembley Stadium in 1985, but they did have a little help?
Fans also remember Live Aid for two special songs. In London, the concert concluded with Do They Know It’s Christmas? put together in 1984 by Geldof and Ure with Band Aid, a group of British and Irish ...
“Bohemian Rhapsody,” the 2018 film about the singer Freddie Mercury, suggests that Queen’s Live Aid performance was the moment when the donations started flowing in.
The author argues that Live Aid demonstrated the power of individual freedom and responsibility in addressing global issues. Forty years ago today, the world did something extraordinary.