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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.
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 corresponding charity concert was held at Red Star Stadium on 15 June 1985, less than a month before Live Aid. [1] Beside the musicians who had already participated in the song recording and the bands they were members of, additional acts performed at the live show. [1] Some 20,000 spectators attended the concert. [14]
The original Band Aid release set a record for Christmas sales in the U.K., and eight months later, Geldof organized Live Aid, a televised concert that attracted more than a billion viewers in ...
The album had been a massive international success and the tour concluded with Collins performing "Against All Odds" and "In the Air Tonight" at both Live Aid concerts, in London and Philadelphia, on 13 July 1985. During the tour, the music video for "Take Me Home" was filmed on location in various cities where the tour was staged. It was ...
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On July 13, 1985, before performing "When The Ship Comes In" with Keith Richards and Ron Wood at the Live Aid benefit concert for the 1983–1985 Ethiopian famine, Bob Dylan remarked about family farmers within the United States in danger of losing their farms through mortgage debt, saying to the worldwide audience exceeding one billion people, "I hope that some of the money ... maybe they can ...
Two INXS songs from the BBC broadcast are contained on Live Aid's four DVD boxed set released in 2004. [7] About 11,000 spectators paid $18.50 each, in order to see Oz for Africa. The concert and telethon, and the associated Sport Aid Oz, raised ten million Australian dollars for the International Disaster Emergency Committee in Australia.