Bob Geldof has said Live Aid still resonates today, 40 years on from the two-venue benefit concert which brought together a stellar cast of celebrity musicians. The campaigner and rock star, 73, said ...
Freddie Mercury peacocking across the stage, pumping his mic stand while 72,000 pairs of hands double clapped in unison during Queen's “Radio Ga Ga.” David Bowie, elegant in his powder blue suit, ...
“It’s 12 noon in London, 7 a.m. in Philadelphia, and around the world, it’s time for Live Aid!” BBC DJ and Live Aid host Richard Skinner declared as crowds cheered. It was Saturday, July 13, 1985, and ...
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 Aid — I don’t ...
The rock star-turned-activist reflects on the 1985 benefit concert and why it could not happen now. The singer and activist Bob Geldof at home in London. The Live Aid shows were seen by about 1.5 ...
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, ...
“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 ...
In 1985, the legendary Live Aid benefit concert kicked off at Wembley Stadium in London, England. The event was organized by Midge Ure and Bob Geldof with the sole purpose of raising money to provide ...
Anyone remember the biggest concert ever staged in the history of the world? The makers of Just For One Day are banking on it, in this competent but frustratingly shallow reconstruction of Live Aid, ...
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