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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?" in December 1984.
The concert raised £1.25m and 61,000 people attended the event at the stadium. The concert was, at the time, the biggest charity concert held in the United Kingdom since Live Aid in 1985. The main tickets sold out in just 3 days with a further 3,000 tickets issued selling out in 20 minutes. [19] 29 June U2: Vertigo Tour: The Killers and ...
The final Queen show of the year was in Hyde Park, London, on 18th September, after the hot summer of 1976. The Hyde Park gig was in fact a free concert which drew in a crowd of about 180,000. The free concert was organised by entrepreneur Richard Branson. Several audio recordings exist of the Hyde Park concert, including a soundboard source.
Just For One Day. Just For One Day is a jukebox musical with a book by John O'Farrell. Told through a modern-day perspective, Just For One Day retells the events leading up to Live Aid, the 1985 benefit concert organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise awareness and funds for the famine in Ethiopia. While the primary events leading to the ...
Boston is an American rock band formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1975. The band's core members include multi-instrumentalist, founder and leader Tom Scholz , who played the majority of instruments on the band's 1976 self-titled debut album , and former lead vocalist Brad Delp , among a number of other musicians who varied from album to album.
Harvey Goldsmith CBE (born 4 March 1946 in Edgware, Middlesex) is an English performing arts promoter. He is best known as a promoter of rock concerts, charity concerts, television broadcasts for the Prince's Trust and the Teenage Cancer Trust shows at the Royal Albert Hall. In 1985, Goldsmith promoted the Live Aid concert held at Wembley ...
Don't Look Back is the second studio album by American rock band Boston, released in 1978 by Epic Records, as the band's last album on the label. [4][5] The album reached No. 1 in both the US and Canada, and No. 9 in the UK. The title track helped with the album's success, reaching No. 4 in 1978 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and remains one of ...
Boston. (album) Boston is the debut studio album by American rock band Boston, released on August 25, 1976, by Epic Records. [3] It was produced by band guitarist Tom Scholz and John Boylan. [4] A multi-instrumentalist and engineer who had been involved in the Boston music scene since the late 1960s, Scholz started to write and record demos in ...