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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.
YU Rock Misija (known in English as YU Rock Mission) was the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's contribution to Bob Geldof's Band Aid campaign, which culminated with the Live Aid concert. It consisted of recording the "Za milion godina" charity single and staging a concert held at Red Star Stadium in Belgrade on 15 June 1985, both ...
Live Aid was a two-venue benefit concert and music-based fundraising initiative held on Saturday, 13 July 1985. The 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.
Jonah Sithole (1952–1997) – chimurenga music artist and guitarist [2] Solomon Skuza (1956–1995) – pop singer-songwriter [2] Buffalo Souljah (born 1980) – Zimdancehall and reggae artist; Shingisai Suluma (born 1971) – gospel music artist; Takura (born 1991) – house music and hip hop artist; System Tazvida (1968-1999) – singer ...
The Bhundu Boys were a Zimbabwean band that played a mixture of chimurenga music with American rock and roll, disco, country, and pop influences. Their style became known as jit, and is quite popular across Africa, with some international success, and has influenced later groups like Nehoreka and Mokoomba.
Birhan Woldu (born 1981) is an Ethiopian who, as a child during the 1983-1985 Ethiopian famine, appeared in video footage taken while she was starving and close to death. The footage was shown at Live Aid in 1985. Woldu was originally found in 1984 by a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) documentary crew led by Brian Stewart and Tony ...
Freeman started his music career in 2009 when he recorded his first track Unondipa Rudo which was produced by WeMaNuff Nhubu. Before becoming a recording artist, he was a professional footballer playing for Mwana Africa F.C. in first division league at the time, he also spent a considerable time of his life in the late 2000s as a butcher boy in the Waterfalls area. [5]
Live Aid was the first ever "Global Juke Box", featuring two near-simultaneous concerts, one at Wembley Stadium in the UK and JFK Stadium in the U.S. Over 60 countries showed the 17-hour event live on television. Following the success of Live Aid, Goldsmith became involved with concerts in aid of human rights including a worldwide Amnesty Tour.