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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 Rolling Stone Album Guide [55] Sounds: 3⅔/5 [56] ... Bob Geldof, the organiser of Live Aid, originally asked Collins to be part of Geldof's first charity effort
The band's 12-minute performance of the song at the Live Aid charity concert in 1985 was a breakthrough moment for them. A live version of the song appears on U2's 1985 EP Wide Awake in America ; this rendition became popular on album-oriented rock radio stations. [ 2 ]
Live Aid was broadcast across the globe and reportedly drew an estimated more than 1.8 billion viewers and raised more than $125 million. It became known as one of the largest, most-watched ...
Enraged by the British government charging the standard 15% sales tax on tickets for Live Aid, Bob Geldof (Craige Els) bullies his way into a meeting with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (sparky ...
In July 1985, Status Quo opened Live Aid at Wembley Stadium with "Rockin' All Over the World". [3] Fogerty has given the cover a positive appraisal, occasionally making joking reference to it as the better-known version in introducing the song at UK gigs, and has talked about how the success of Status Quo's version came during a "very dark ...
Run-DMC was the first hip hop act to have their music videos broadcast on MTV, appear on American Bandstand, be on the cover of Rolling Stone, [7] perform at Live Aid, and be nominated for a Grammy Award. [8] In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Run-DMC at number 48 in its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. [4]