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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.
Madonna has embarked on several promotional concerts to promote her studio albums, as well as performing award shows and benefit concerts like Live Aid (1985), Live 8 (2005) and Live Earth (2007). In 2012, she headlined the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show, which at that time was the most-watched halftime show in history.
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.
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 ...
This influenced Queen's appearance at Live Aid, where the 72,000-person crowd at Wembley Stadium would sing loudly and clap their hands in unison. Queen's performance at Live Aid was later voted the greatest live show of all time by a group of over 60 musicians, critics, and executives in a poll conducted by Channel 4. [1]
Events City Country Place Capacity Date Songs 1. Benefit for "Release" London: England: Hard Rock Café: 18 March 1973: 2. Live Aid: Wembley Stadium: 72,000: 13 July 1985: 1 3. The Prince's Trust: Wembley Arena: 20 June 1986: 3 4. Sanremo Music Festival: Sanremo: Italy: Teatro Ariston: 28 February 1988: 5. Up Close TV show: New York: United ...
The first concert, according to Robin Denselow, music critic and presenter of the BBC broadcast, writing in 1989, [9] was the "biggest and most spectacular pop-political event of all time, a more political version of Live Aid with the aim of raising consciousness rather than just money."
25 Live: 23 September 2006 – 1 December 2008 Twenty Five: Europe North America Middle East 106 1,300,000 [3] George Michael Live in Australia: 20 February – 3 March 2010 — Australia 3 100,000 [4] [5] [6] Symphonica Tour: 22 August 2011 – 17 October 2012 Europe 67