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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.
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.
The soundtrack features many of the band's songs and unreleased recordings including tracks from their legendary concert at Live Aid in 1985. [6] The soundtrack was released by Hollywood Records and Virgin EMI Records on 19 October 2018, on CD, cassette and digital formats.
On this day in 1985, a worldwide rock concert dubbed 'Live Aid' was organized to raise money for the relief of famine-stricken Africans at Wembley Stadium in London. According to History.com, the ...
The home release of "Bohemian Rhapsody" is giving fans of the acclaimed film more insight into how Queen reacted to the movie's most accurate moments.In an exclusive clip obtained by AOL ...
Bernard Watson (born David Weinstein, 1967) [1] is an American singer and guitarist, who was the opening act at the American leg of the Live Aid concert in JFK Stadium, Philadelphia on July 13, 1985. An 18-year-old from Miami Beach , he had just graduated from high school and had no professional musical experience.
The song was performed at Live Aid as an encore, with additional instruments and arrangements in the last part; changes were also present in the vocal line. A month before their Live Aid appearance, "Is This the World We Created…?" was Queen's contribution to the multi-artist compilation Greenpeace – The Album.
The title track was the one single from the album released in the US. Ant performed "Vive Le Rock" at the 1985 benefit concert Live Aid. It was the only song he played at the show, as the band preceding him on the bill, The Boomtown Rats (for whom concert co-organiser Bob Geldof was the front man) overran their allotted time. [10]