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Live Aid was a multi-venue benefit concert and music-based fundraising initiative held on Saturday 13 July 1985. The original 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?"
Apr 21, 2024 · 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 television viewers and raised millions of dollars for famine relief in Ethiopia.
Jul 13, 2021 · Queen's Live Aid performance in July 1985 may have clocked in at just 17 minutes, but they were 17 minutes which would both make rock history and transform the band for good. Though they'd enjoyed continued success with their platinum-selling 11th album The Works in 1984, as the mid-80s beckoned, frontman Freddie Mercury found himself ...
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 relief. It was...
Jul 13, 2020 · Held in Philadelphia and London on this day in 1985, the massive benefit concert raised money to relieve famine in Ethiopia and was streamed globally via satellite. More recently, Geldof also...
Live Aid was two rock concerts in London and Philadelphia that were held on July 13, 1985. It was organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for African citizens who were in poverty not getting enough food.
Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy. The rock-music concert benefit held on July 13, 1985, for famine relief in Ethiopia and the Sudan was known as Live Aid. Live Aid was conceived by Irish singer-songwriter Bob Geldof, who had previously gained fame as leader of the Boomtown Rats.
