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 …

Mar 26, 2025 · Live Aid was a benefit concert held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London and JFK Stadium in Philadelphia on July 13, 1985. The concert drew an estimated 1.5 billion …

9 hours ago · Before there was Live Aid, there was BandAid, a group of '80s superstar musicians who came together to record a Christmas song that raised money for Ethiopians in …

Jul 3, 2022 · Live Aid, which took place on July 13, 1985 for a global audience of 1.9 billion people, was a massive, bicontinental pop concert created to raise money for Ethiopian famine …

Nov 24, 2009 · On July 13, 1985, at Wembley Stadium in London, Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially open Live Aid, a worldwide rock concert organized to raise money for the relief …

Jul 12, 2024 · On Saturday, 13th July 1985, rock and pop music’s top table came together to raise money and awareness for the famine crisis then taking place in Ethiopia. Radio X looks back …

Jul 13, 2021 · The performance helped transform them into a wonderfully camp, sleek and ubiquitous rock band, and the biggest British live act of the 80s. That their Live Aid …

Jun 4, 2022 · If you were around during the 1980s, you most likely remember the 1985 Live Aid Concert held for famine relief in Africa. For those of you young’uns, 90s babies and younger, …

Aug 26, 2015 · The “global jukebox” of Live Aid took place in London and Philadelphia on July 13th. Organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, Live Aid was the largest international charity …

Live Aid was a two-part fundraising concert that took place on July 13, 1985. Bob Geldolf (who starred in the 1982 movie “Pink Floyd The Wall” and was lead singer of The Boomtown Rats) …