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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.
The FireAid concert to benefit those affected by the Los Angeles fires is here. Those looking to tune in for the Thursday, Jan. 30 concert event — which will be happening in Los Angeles — have ...
The victims of the devastating L.A. wildfires are getting a helping hand from some music superstars. Lady Gaga, Green Day and Billie Eilish are among more than a dozen acts set to perform at ...
On July 13, 1985, at the Live Aid concert at JFK Stadium, Philadelphia. Tony Thompson and Phil Collins both played drums on all three songs. For the last song, "Stairway to Heaven", Paul Martinez played bass, while John Paul Jones moved to keyboards. The band was introduced on stage by Phil Collins as "my three friends" (not as Led Zeppelin).
Live 8, a large, international series of benefit concerts staged in 2005. A benefit concert or charity concert is a type of musical benefit performance (e.g., concert, show, or gala) featuring musicians, comedians, or other performers that is held for a charitable purpose, often directed at a specific and immediate humanitarian crisis.
The Los Angeles FireAid benefit concert brought together 27 musical acts to raise money for short-term relief efforts and long-term initiatives in Southern California in the wake of January's ...
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.
In an amusingly appropriate pairing, after the band’s Billie Joe Armstrong sang the first verse of that song, “Last Night on Earth,” from the band’s 2009 album “21 st Century Breakdown ...