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Bob Geldof says Live Aid still resonates today 40 years on from benefit concerts - Live Aid was a two-venue benefit concert held on July 13 1985 that raised money for the famine in Ethiopia.
Kemi Badenoch clashes with Bob Geldof after Live Aid organiser accuses Israel of ‘lying’ over Gaza aid - A senior Israeli ...
Forty years ago, the legendary Live Aid concerts simulcast from Philadelphia and London aimed to do a lot of good. They helped to raise over $100 million for famine relief in Ethiopia and inspired ...
Bob Geldof was in a French cafe recently when a man came up to him and said, “Thank you for the best day of my life.” “I didn’t know what he was talking about, but I assumed it was Live ...
By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) -Musicians who performed at Live Aid, the transatlantic concert that raised millions for famine relief in Ethiopia, reunited in London on Sunday to mark the event's ...
Irish musician Bob Geldof said that 40 years on from Live Aid the concerts inspired people to feel that "the individual was not powerless" and that they could change the world ...
Sir Bob Geldof is a name that we all recognise ... He later organised the charity concert Live Aid which is celebrating a 40 year anniversary in 2025 and Live 8 which took place in 2005, all of which ...
The National Library of Ireland has now digitised 2,000 photographs and made them available to the public to view online to ...
Geldof then appeared on follow-up American version, “We Are the World” in 1985. Later that summer, he helped organize Live Aid, the most ambitious global television event of its time.
In an interview with 'Radio Times,' it was revealed that Freddie Mercury was warned not to get clever" ahead of his legendary ...
Just For One Day will run at the Old Vic from January 26-March 30. The UK leg of Live Aid kicked off at Wembley Stadium where the likes of Queen with frontman Freddie Mercury, David Bowie, Elton ...
Twenty years later, Live Aid — now Live 8 — is back in expanded form. But both Geldof’s tactics and his organization’s rationale could not be more different from two decades ago.