That image of Freddie Mercury still lingers. In a white chest-hugging vest, the frontman of rock band Queen had energetically pranced around London’s Wembley Stadium stage, belting out the hits Radio ...

Legend also has it that you were initially resistant to having Queen play. Geldof: Look, if you want a single reason why punk existed, a single word -- Queen, OK? Spare me all this (expletive), ‘Hey, ...

On July 13, 1985, the world’s biggest music stars gathered for Live Aid, a massive benefit concert to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. In a new original series, CNN and BBC go behind the ...

“It was our Woodstock, but better,” Nile Rodgers asserts in Live Aid: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World, referring to the all-star charity concerts broadcast around the world 40 years ago. Boomers ...

I can’t recall much about the summer of 1985, but I do remember July 13. That morning 40 years ago, I flipped on my family’s old Zenith television to look at Live Aid, the fund-raiser for famine ...

Backstage at Live Aid in Philadelphia in 1985 are (from left) David Crosby, Graham Nash, Stephen Stills, Jack Nicholson, Fred Spanjaard. Courtesy photo Back in 1985 when Live Aid, the largest charity ...

In the summer of 1985, images of emaciated children in Ethiopia shocked the world and prompted one of the biggest charity concerts ever: Live Aid. Megastars like Paul McCartney, Lionel Richie, Madonna ...

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Some of rock and metal's biggest names were at Live Aid in 1985, but there were also some very notable absences as well. Who are the big artists that missed out on Live Aid and why were they not there ...