It was one of the biggest charity gigs ever to be held in the UK - but it very nearly didn't happen.

First, a confession: I wasn’t even alive when Queen played Live Aid. I was born three years later in 1988, three years before Mercury died of bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS. My first ...

This show features Live Aid, the biggest benefit concert in history. Taking place simultaneously in two separate stadiums in the USA and the UK, many of the top contemporary rock music acts play ...

“Live Aid was a monumental event and movement that harnessed the power of popular music and brought more than a billion people together in aid of famine relief. How Live Aid came to be, the ...

Taking us behind the scenes of the benefit concert, Live Aid, staged in 1985 and viewed by 1.5 billion people, its tornado of sound is certainly stadium quality. An ensemble of singers pound out ...

Exactly 40 years after Live Aid, the trans-Atlantic benefit concert for famine relief in Ethiopia, a new musical commemorating the cultural event will open in Toronto. “Just for One Day ...

This amazing live music experience will take place on Friday and Saturday 11th and 12th July and features 12 superb tribute bands. Proceeds to Brain Tumour Research and Simply The Breast (Mid ...

Over the past four decades, it is believed the Band Aid Charitable Trust "has raised more than £140 million in total", said the BBC. The hit also spawned Live Aid, the 1985 concert, and Live 8 ...