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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.
For example, both Downsview Park and Molson Amphitheatre were hosting concerts on Canada Day (the day before Live 8) and it was impossible to set up the Live 8 stage a day before the concert. On June 21, Park Place in Barrie, Ontario was finally announced as the official venue for the Canadian Live 8 concert by promoter, Michael Cohl. [3]
In an exclusive clip obtained by AOL Entertainment, viewers can see original Queen band members Bob Geldoff and Brian May react to the film's Live Aid set -- the recreation of the iconic benefit ...
The song became one of the opening numbers in Quo's live setlist for over 25 years. [4] It was the second number played at their Live Aid gig in 1985 [5] and it inspired Apollo 440's 1999 single "Stop the Rock". [6] The song was reprised, in 2014, for the band's thirty-first studio album Aquostic (Stripped Bare).
It was among the songs he performed at Live Aid held at Wembley Stadium in London on 13 July 1985. It reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 two weeks later, and was one of two top 10 hits Young had on the U.S. pop singles chart (the second being his 1990 cover of " Oh Girl " by the Chi-Lites ).
"Dancin' the Night Away" went to number one for three weeks on the Billboard disco/dance chart. [2] The single failed to chart on either the Billboard Hot 100 or the R&B chart (although the single did "Bubble Under" at No. 109 for one week). In the UK, the single peaked at No. 39 in August 1981. [3] In the Netherlands, it reached number 22.
Dua Lipa Taylor Hill/WireImage/Getty Images Dua Lipa has given her sequined swan song with “Dance the Night.” Though Lipa, 28, has found major success with the disco sound on songs like “Don ...