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Bob Geldof produced one of the greatest feats in rock 'n' roll history with Live Aid. A new CNN series takes a deep dive.
On July 13, 1985, the two Live Aid concerts took place at Wembley Stadium in London and John F. Kennedy Stadium in ...
Forty years after Live Aid rocked the world, Evelyn O'Rourke looks at ten ways the music event of a lifetime made musical history.
WHEN Paula Yates’ two-year-old daughter Fifi presented Princess Diana with a limp bunch of flowers at Live Aid, the cute ...
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 ...
Following the all-star Band Aid "Do They Know It's Christmas?" benefit single the previous December, it was 20-odd hours of ...
Now a lecturer at the University of Brighton, Elaine Hills was a sixth form student when she promised her mother she wouldn't ...
IT was 12 noon on Saturday, July 13 when a couple of ageing rockers in jeans walked onto the stage at Wembley Stadium.
"Featuring exclusive interviews with iconic figures such as Bob Geldof, Bono, Sting and Midge Ure, the series chronicles how ...
Bono also admits that even though U2’s stirring performance has been decreed a pinnacle of Live Aid, he can’t bring himself to watch it. “It was such a bad hair day,” he recalls.
When Queen stole the show at Live Aid, Brian May and Roger Taylor sat with the royals and other rock stars but where was ...
The Live Aid concerts for African famine relief turn 40 on Sunday, July 13, but for organizer Bob Geldof of the Boomtown Rats ...