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Richard Skinner (born 26 December 1951) [1] [2] is a British radio and television presenter.. He was the opening announcer and TV anchor at the Live Aid concert in 1985, and is the only presenter to have fronted all three of the BBC's leading pop music programmes, The Old Grey Whistle Test and Top of the Pops on television and the Radio One Top 40 show.
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.
YU Rock Misija (known in English as YU Rock Mission) was the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's contribution to Bob Geldof's Band Aid campaign, which culminated with the Live Aid concert. It consisted of recording the "Za milion godina" charity single and staging a concert held at Red Star Stadium in Belgrade on 15 June 1985, both ...
A live version of "Tears Are Not Enough" was performed at the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame gala in Toronto on September 24, 2022. The rendition included many original Northern Lights members including soloists Hart, Hill, and Cockburn plus new Canadian talent such as Alessia Cara and Charlotte Cardin .
In September 2001, Africa Israel Investments, a financial group headed by Lev Leviev won the tender for the creation of Israel TV channel in Russian. Established in November 2002, [1] the channel's first CEO was Yulia Shamalov-Berkovich, who led the company until February 2004. [2] The station began broadcasting on 12 November 2002.
23 March – Richard Skinner presents the Sunday Top 40 for the final time. 29 March – Richard Skinner leaves the station for a while to join Capital Radio. 30 March – Bruno Brookes takes over as the host of The Official Chart. 18 April – Mike Read presents his final Radio 1 Breakfast show after five years in the hot seat. 3 May – Simon ...
Live Aid organiser Bob Geldof announced the event on 31 May. Many former Live Aid acts offered their services to the cause. Prior to the official announcement of the event, many news sources referred to the event as Live Aid 2. However, Geldof and co-organiser Midge Ure have since explicitly said they do not think of the event as the same as ...
The first show is presented by Richard Skinner, who had launched Virgin 1215 18 years earlier. 2012 13 August – To celebrate Team GB 's Olympic success at London 2012 Absolute Radio's breakfast show host Christian O'Connell plays Spandau Ballet 's 1983 hit Gold 29 times between 6.00am and 10.30am, matching the number of gold medals won by ...