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Michael Buerk, a journalist who reported on the Ethiopian famine in 1984, has said his initial reaction to the Live Aid ...
'Live Aid at 40' viewers called out 'boring' Oasis as they asked to 'go back' to the old days of music concerts. The 40th anniversary of the two-venue benefit concert falls on Sunday, July 13, which ...
Simulcast from Philadelphia and London on July 13, 1985, Live Aid was the most ambitious global television event of its time: ...
The Irish singer songwriter and political activist lost his daughter Peaches in 2014 and asked himself 'what could you have done?' ...
"I still have to pinch myself, when I'm watching the footage, that I was there," she said. Chris Fowler has kept some of the ...
A flirty and electrifying performance by Mick Jagger and Tina Turner at Live Aid 40 years ago endures as a moment in rock ‘n’ ...
As Live Aid celebrates its 40th anniversary, Sir Bob Geldof has told how it wouldn’t work as a fund-raiser today because rock’n’roll no longer has the currency it did in the 1980s. And the ...
Bob Geldof has praised his late ex-wife Paula Yates for being instrumental in both Band Aid and Live Aid.
THE world will always remember 1985’s Live Aid as the global fundraiser organised by Bob Geldof. But the truth was, he could not have pulled off the mega rock concert without his then-girlfriend ...
We’re just a couple of weeks away from the 40th anniversary of Live Aid, the global mega-gig that set the template for charity stadium shows and took place on Saturday 13 July 1985. To mark the ...
Sir Bob Geldof has spoken about why he is not “proud” of the Live Aid concert, stating that it is what came afterwards that he is most “glad” about. The Irish rock star, 73, conceived the ...
Bob Geldof tells NME about the 'Live Aid' musical, the need for politics in music, and why such a huge-scale charity event could never happen again.