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Sting, Rob Halford, Mike Love, Graham Nash and more reflect on the day the world united to rock together for a cause.
Forty years ago, the legendary Live Aid concerts simulcast from Philadelphia and London aimed to do a lot of good.
Forty years ago, the legendary Live Aid concerts simulcast from Philadelphia and London aimed to do a lot of good. They ...
Band Aid's 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' was the fastest-selling single in UK history - but readers might be surprised to ...
A compilation of Heart and Heart 80s' interviews about Band Aid and #LiveAid with Bob Geldof, Midge Ure, Tony Hadley and Nik ...
Forty years ago, the legendary Live Aid concerts simulcast from Philadelphia and London aimed to do a lot of good ...
Bob Geldof has been recognised for the chart achievements of the artists that contributed to the Live Aid musical.
The Irish singer songwriter and political activist lost his daughter Peaches in 2014 and asked himself 'what could you have done?' ...
Bob Geldof’s Live Aid concerts raised more than £114m for the famine in Ethiopia (Getty) “If there was a famine in Italy and someone reacts and they’re white, are they a white saviour?
Now, in an interview with The Times to mark Live Aid’s upcoming 40th anniversary (13 July), organiser Bob Geldof has been recalling the McCartney mishap. “Paul asked me which song he should do ...
In 2024, Geldof dismissed a critical comment from the Guardian – which highlighted how some viewed Live Aid as reinforcing “a patronising image of Africa as a continent desperate for, and ...
Bob Geldof didn’t mince words about those in charge across the pond as he celebrated 40 years of Live Aid. “The thuggery of Musk, and Vance and Trump, this confederacy of dunces, these abject ...