Live Aid

Prompted by Mr Buerk's BBC reports, and others in Canada and the US, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure gathered international pop stars for the 1984 Band Aid single Do They Know It's Christmas and the Live Aid concert in 1985. In total...

In this article: Oxfam, Ethiopia, Michael Buerk, Band Aid, Africa, 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, Climate change, Do They Know It's Christmas, and Care International

...in conjunction with the Live Aid benefit. Two INXS songs, "What You Need " and "Don't Change", were also in the BBC broadcast and are contained on Live Aid's four DVD boxed set released in 2004. INXS had started out as a New Wave act,...

In this article: INXS, Michael Hutchence, Chris Murphy, Andrew Farriss, Australia, United States, J. D. Fortune, UK, Garry Beers, and New Wave

...BBC's refusal to broadcast the appeal was widely criticised. Sir Bob Geldof the co-organiser of the Live Aid and Live 8 initiatives called upon the corporation to think again. He told The Sunday Telegraph: "The BBC should broadcast the...

In this article: Gaza, BBC, ITV, Mr Benn, Israel, Channel 5, and The Sunday Telegraph

...manner: by making sure it totally rocked your face off. Not for nothing was the band's set at the 1985 Live Aid concert voted the greatest live performance of all time in a 2005 BBC poll. Interestingly, Freddie Mercury was initially reluctant...

In this article: Queen, Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Bob Geldof, John Deacon, Innuendo, Cruella de Vil, and Melody Maker

...and "villagification" programmes, under which at least 3 million people are said to have been displaced and between 50,000 and 100,000 killed. The Live Aid concert in London was also the first time that the BBC outdoor broadcast...

In this article: Bob Geldof, DVD, Philadelphia, Phil Collins, David Bowie, MTV, London, and Paul McCartney

...F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia. Thanks to an unprecedented decision by the BBC to clear its schedules for 16 hours of rock music, the event was also broadcast live in the UK on television and radio. It was one of the most monumental...

In this article: Bob Geldof, Live 8, Paula Yates, The Boomtown Rats, Africa, Poverty, and G8

...year and editor of the year award. In the early 1980s he had a short period as presenter of the BBC music show Old Grey Whistle Test and was one of the presenters of the BBC's coverage of Live Aid. David Hepworth is featured in a...

In this article: The Word, Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield, Mojo, Empire, Periodical Publishers Association, Mark Goodier, Beserkley Records, and Top of the Pops

...the BBC broadcast, writing in 1989, was the "biggest and most spectacular pop-political event of all time, a more political version of Live Aid with the aim of raising consciousness rather than just money." The organiser and risk-funder of...

In this article: Nelson Mandela, Sting, Stevie Wonder, Jerry Dammers, Harry Belafonte, Simple Minds, Dire Straits, Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute, and Whitney Houston