"Live Aid Live Aid was a dual-venue benefit concert held on Saturday 13 July 1985, and an ongoing music-based fundraising initiative. The original event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for relief of the ongoing Ethiopian famine. Billed as the ""global jukebox"", the event was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London, England, United Kingdom (attended by 72,000 people) and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (attended by about 100,000 people). On the same day, concerts inspired by the initiative happened in other countries, such as the Soviet Union, Canada, Japan, Yugoslavia,"
"1985 in British music This is a summary of 1985 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. The biggest British musical event of 1985 was the Live Aid concert in London's Wembley Stadium on 13 July. Held to follow up the previous year's charity record ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"", the biggest-selling single ever at the time, popular acts such as The Who, U2 and Queen performed in front of an estimated audience of 1.9 billion viewers. It raised £150 million to help famine in Ethiopia, and a similar event would happen 20 years"
"were: 1985 in British music This is a summary of 1985 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. The biggest British musical event of 1985 was the Live Aid concert in London's Wembley Stadium on 13 July. Held to follow up the previous year's charity record ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"", the biggest-selling single ever at the time, popular acts such as The Who, U2 and Queen performed in front of an estimated audience of 1.9 billion viewers. It raised £150 million to help famine in Ethiopia, and a similar event would happen 20"
"Aid, a charity supergroup primarily made up of the biggest British and Irish musicians of the era, and sang on ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"" which was recorded at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, London. This led to the Live Aid concert in July 1985 at Wembley Stadium, in which Sting performed with Phil Collins and Dire Straits. On 2 July 2005, Sting performed at the Live 8 concert at Hyde Park, London, the follow-up to 1985's Live Aid. In June 1986, Sting reunited with the Police for the last three shows of Amnesty's six-date A Conspiracy of Hope"
"""Journey, Frontiers and Beyond"". On August 20, 1983, The Police headlined another ""JFK Jam"" as these multi-act, all-day shows were being referred to. This time the opening acts were R.E.M., Madness, and Joan Jett. Pop Group The Jacksons performed for 4 sold-out shows in September 1984 during their Victory Tour in front of 240,000 in attendance, one of the largest audiences of the tour. American side of Live Aid was primarily a dual-venue concert held on July 13, 1985. The event was held simultaneously at JFK Stadium (attended by about 100,000 people) and at Wembley Stadium, in London (attended by"
"1985) in the United Kingdom, No. 4 in West Germany, No. 6 in Canada and No. 3 (No. 5 on re-entry in 1985) in Ireland. The song is associated with the July 1985 Live Aid event, where it was performed by Benjamin Orr during the Philadelphia event; previously, the song was used as the background music to a montage of clips depicting the contemporaneous Ethiopian famine during the London event, which was introduced by English musician David Bowie. Following the concert it was re-released in the UK and peaked at No. 4 in August 1985. Proceeds from the sales of"
"in loan repayments. It became obvious that one song was not enough. On 13 July 1985, Geldof and Ure organised Live Aid, a huge event staged simultaneously at the Wembley Stadium in London and John 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 stage shows in history, with Phil Collins flying on Concorde so that he could play at both Wembley and Philadelphia on the"
"was at the time the joint highest-placed Bond theme on the UK chart where it reached number 2. It was the last single the band recorded as the original five-piece for close to twenty years. As a follow-up to the Christmas 1984 Band Aid single, Duran Duran performed in front of 90,000 people (and an estimated 1.5 billion TV viewers) at the Live Aid charity concert at John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 13 July 1985 while their Bond song held the top spot on the American charts. It was not intended to be a farewell performance—the band"
"Eyes"", ""Maneater"", ""Kiss on My List"" and others. ""It was insanely fun,"" he recalled. ""We were so big that one year, we decided we would perform during summer – all year 'round! We toured the northern hemisphere in the summer and the southern hemisphere during New York's winter."" Another event was the Live Aid and Farm Aid benefit concerts in mid-1985. During the Philadelphia portion of Live Aid day (the main Live Aid show was in London) the Hall & Oates band ended up being the house band. Smith ended up being the de facto music director for a lot"
"Live Aid in 1985, singing ""Caribbean Queen"" and ""Loverboy"", from JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. His 1986 album ""Love Zone"" also sold well. It included the successful singles ""When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going"", the theme from the film ""The Jewel of the Nile;"" this was a No. 1 success in the UK and a No. 2 in the United States; and ""There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)"" (a US No. 1, and also a major UK success). Also included were the title track and ""Love Is Forever"", which were No. 10 and No. 16 US"
"event, The Concerts for Kampuchea, at Hammersmith Odeon, London, featuring artists including Paul McCartney, Queen and The Who. The event raised over $2 million from worldwide sales. In 1985, Goldsmith organised Live Aid with Bob Geldof which became a £140 million fundraising venture within ten weeks. Live Aid was the first ever ""Global Juke Box"" featuring two simultaneous concerts, at Wembley Stadium in the UK and JFK Stadium in the US, with over 60 countries showing the 17-hour event live on television. Following the success of Live Aid, Goldsmith became involved with concerts in aid of human rights, including a"
"Farm Aid Farm Aid started as a benefit concert held September 22, 1985, in Champaign, Illinois, to raise money for family farmers in the United States. The concert was organized by Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young, spurred on by Bob Dylan's comments at Live Aid earlier in that year that he hoped some of the money would help American farmers in danger of losing their farms through mortgage debt. The first concert was at University of Illinois' Memorial Stadium in Champaign on September 22 before a crowd of 80,000 people. Performers included Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, B.B. King,"
"to Los Angeles. Promoters marketed youthful musical artists known as teen idols to appeal to the young audience. Philadelphia-born singers such as Frankie Avalon, James Darren, Eddie Fisher, Fabian Forte, and Bobby Rydell, along with South Philly-raised Chubby Checker, topped the music charts, establishing a clean-cut rock and roll image. Philly soul music of the late 1960s–1970s is a highly produced version of soul music which led to later forms of popular music such as disco and urban contemporary rhythm and blues. On July 13, 1985, John F. Kennedy Stadium was the American venue for the Live Aid concert. The"
"Live Aid, performing at the Philadelphia show on 13 July 1985. This event – which also featured reunions of The Who and Led Zeppelin – marked the first time the original line-up had appeared on stage since 1978. ""We were all drunk when we did Live Aid,"" recalled Geezer Butler, ""but we'd all got drunk separately."" Returning to his solo work, Iommi enlisted bassist Dave Spitz (ex-Great White), drummer Eric Singer and initially intended to use multiple singers, including Rob Halford of Judas Priest, former Deep Purple and Trapeze vocalist Glenn Hughes, and former Sabbath vocalist Ronnie James Dio. This"
"Theater - Philadelphia, PA 1979-09-15 The Granada Theater – Chicago, IL 1979-09-21 Rainbow Music Hall - Denver CO 1979-10-08 Paradiso – Amsterdam, Holland 1979-10-19 Gota Lejon Stockholm, Sweden 1979-10-23 Strathclyde University Glasgow, Scotland 1979-10-24 University Leeds, England 1979-10-26 Odeon Birmingham, England 1979-10-27 The Rainbow Theatre London, England 1979-10-28 The Venue - London UK 1979-10-29 The Dome Brighton, England 1979-11-07 Live at the Palladium - NY (WPLJ radio) 1979-11-14 Ryerson Theater - Toronto Canada 1979-12-31 Capitol Theater - Passaic NJ Love Is A Sacrifice Tour (1980) 1980-xx-xx West Chester PA 1980-05-27 Guest DJ - WNEW-FM NYC 1980-07-05 Freehold Raceway NJ 1980-07-08"
"The Who 1985 and 1988 reunions The Who performed only twice between their 1982 and 1989 tours, both short reunions that were nonetheless highly anticipated. The first took place in 1985 for the Live Aid concert and the second in 1988 for the BPI Awards. These were the last two occasions in which the band performed with Kenney Jones on drums. Two and a half years after the group finished their ""farewell tour"", they were persuaded by Live Aid organiser Bob Geldof to appear in the London segment of the monumental concert, which took place on 13 July 1985 at"
"out ""Pride (In the Name of Love)"", which was supposed to end the band's performance. The concert turned out to be a breakthrough moment for the band, showing a television audience of millions the personal connection that Bono could make with audiences. Only a week later he realized that the dance with the fan became a key image of Live Aid. All of U2's albums re-entered the charts in the UK after their performance. ""Bad"" is the first track on the 1985 EP ""Wide Awake in America"", this being a live version recorded at Birmingham's NEC Arena on November 12,"
"September 1985 in London, 27 September in Birmingham and 28 September in Manchester. The tour fared better in North America with 34 US and Canadian shows from 11 October 1985 in Santa Cruz, California until 14 December 1985 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Ant decided to pause his career in music at the end of 1985 to focus on his acting career. The Fort Lauderdale show was Ant's last full-length concert until February 1993. Indeed, between December 1982 and February 1995, Ant's only public live concerts outside North America were the four aforementioned UK/Spanish shows, Live Aid, a 1987 fanclub party"
"The ""Boston Globe"" described it as a ""mesmerising performance"". A selection of highlights of both nights was released on VHS with the title ""Queen: Live in Rio"", and was later broadcast on MTV in the US. In April and May 1985, Queen completed the Works Tour with sold-out shows in Australia and Japan. At Live Aid, held at Wembley on 13 July 1985, in front of the biggest-ever TV audience of 1.9 billion, Queen performed some of their greatest hits, during which the sold-out stadium audience of 72,000 people clapped, sang, and swayed in unison. The show's organisers Bob Geldof"
"Band Aid, which continued throughout 1985 until its finale – the historical Live Aid concert on 13 July 1985. The concert was broadcast worldwide including SFR Yugoslavia. Beside ""Do They Know it's Christmas?"" and USA for Africa projects from the UK and USA respectively, plenty of other countries also joined in. For example: Canada, West Germany, Austria, Norway etc. The SFR Yugoslav pop and rock elite also joined Geldof's campaign and formed a Yugoslav Band Aid under the name YU Rock Misija. The group included Oliver Mandić, Željko Bebek, Marina Perazić, Momčilo Bajagić, Aki Rahimovski, Husein Hasanefendić, Slađana Milošević, Jura"
"Hall and Oates band also backed up Mick Jagger's performance at this show. Hall, Oates, Ruffin and Kendrick performed again at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York later that year, complete with an Apollo Theater-style marquee descending on the stage during their performance. In May, 1985, Hall and Oates performed at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium. Just prior to Live Aid, on July 4, they participated in Liberty Concert, an outdoor benefit concert at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey for the restoration of the Statue of Liberty. It became a major music event, drawing an estimated"
"On 13 July 1969 the band Yes performed at Wembley Stadium, on a bill that also included Alan Price, Don Partridge (aka “the King of the Buskers”) and Status Quo, who would be the first act to open Live Aid, on exactly the same date 16 years later. This was the first popular music concert in the Stadium On 5 August 1972 a pop concert called The London Rock and Roll Show was held in the Stadium. It was the first of several popular music concerts held in the Stadium in the ‘70s. Crosby Stills Nash & Young followed on"
"when they reunited for Live Aid in 1985 and remained their keyboard player until 2011. Live material from 1982 has appeared on a number of different releases: The Clash's support set at Shea Stadium on 13 October became a popular bootleg, eventually being officially released as ""Live at Shea Stadium"" in 2008. with The band played two warm-up shows at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England shortly before travelling to North America. While Townshend's announcement during the first show that they planned to do ""a proper British tour next year"" was met with loud cheers, this ultimately did not"
"Live Aid was intended to help. At a concert in London in 1995, almost ten years later to the day, Bon Jovi covered the song after being joined on stage by Geldof at Wembley Stadium. This recorded performance features on Bon Jovi's live album ""One Wild Night Live 1985–2001"", as well as on the bonus 2-CD edition of ""These Days"". Bon Jovi was again joined by Geldof for a performance of the song at The O2 Arena on 23 June 2010, the 10th night of their 12-night residency. Geldof himself performed a version of the song while hosting the Live"
"Live 8 Live 8 was a string of benefit concerts that took place on 2 July 2005, in the G8 states and in South Africa. They were timed to precede the G8 conference and summit held at the Gleneagles Hotel in Auchterarder, Scotland from 6–8 July 2005. Both events also coincided with the 20th anniversary of Live Aid. Run in support of the aims of the UK's Make Poverty History campaign and the Global Call for Action Against Poverty, ten simultaneous concerts were held on 2 July and one on 6 July. On 7 July, the G8 leaders pledged to"
"countries. Whereas the 1984 Olympics utilized three satellites to beam from one location around the world, Live Aid utilized thirteen satellites sending and receiving concerts from seven locations from around the world and producing one international feed back to the 150 nations. Despite 1985 being at the height of the Cold War, Mitchell established a global broadcast with a live concert from the Soviet Union featuring Autograph, and a delayed Live Aid showing in China. President Ronald Reagan's Administration supported the Live Aid Foundation by providing wheat from America's reserves and awarded Mitchell a Presidential Citation for the Live Aid"
"throughout Europe, as well as a top 10 hit in Canada. Kershaw is also most closely associated with this song in the U.S., where it narrowly missed going Top 40. Kershaw performed this song at Live Aid in London's Wembley Stadium in July 1985. Kershaw's first single from this album had failed to be a major hit, and it was on the strength of this recording's success that the earlier single, ""I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"", was promoted for a re-release. This time the single went all the way to #2 in the UK, becoming his"
"and Canada, including six consecutive nights at Madison Square Garden in New York and five nights at The Forum in Los Angeles. However, a planned Latin American leg in Mexico, Brazil, and Venezuela for the balance of August was cancelled due to a combination of currency fluctuations and security concerns. Four additional US dates were then added, culminating in a final performance on 8 August at Rich Stadium near Buffalo, New York. The 1977 live album ""Love You Live"" has ""Fingerprint File"" and ""It's Only Rock 'n Roll"" from Toronto, 17 June 1975 and ""Sympathy for the Devil"" from Los"
"15). Increased demand resulted in three concerts in Europe: February 18, 2007 at the London Palladium in London, February 20 at L'Olympia in Paris and February 25 once again at the London Palladium. The final performance was on September 23, 2007 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California. Part of the success of the tribute concerts can be attributed to the amount of press attention received and the eagerness of other artists to participate in the event. As written by Gaby Wood of ""The Guardian"", Wainwright ""sparkled on the cover of ""Time Out New York"""" and was ""adored in"
"meetings that resulted in the addition of an ad-hoc network within the US, which covered 85 percent of TVs there. Verna designed the needed satellite schematic and became the Executive Director as well as the Co-Executive Producer along with Hal Uplinger. Uplinger came up with the idea to produce a four-hour video edit of Live Aid to distribute to those countries without the necessary satellite equipment to rebroadcast the live feed. The concert began at 12:00 British Summer Time (BST) (7:00 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)) at Wembley Stadium in the United Kingdom. It continued at John F. Kennedy Stadium (JFK)"
"heard on the live album ""Who's Last""), as was obviously intended at the time. The tour concluded with two shows at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens, the second of which was made available via pay-per-view and radio broadcasts throughout North America, as it was thought to be the last performance of their final tour. The group would of course subsequently reunite for various events (the first being Live Aid in 1985) and tours. ""Doctor Jimmy"", ""Boris the Spider"", ""Love Ain't For Keeping"", and ""Squeeze Box"" were reintroduced to the set on this leg after long absences. Here is a fairly typical"
"phenomenally successful, with over 2.5 million tickets sold. The tour included dates in Europe, Israel, North America, and Australia and New Zealand. The band played 248 shows in over 100 different cities. Saxophonist Chris White joined the band, and the tour began on 25 April 1985 in Split, Croatia (then part of Yugoslavia). While playing a 13-night residency at Wembley Arena in London, the band moved down the road to Wembley Stadium on the afternoon of 13 July 1985, to appear in a Live Aid slot, in which their set included ""Money For Nothing"" with Sting as guest vocalist. The"
"Live Aid performance and would do on later tours. U2 covered Ben E. King's ""Stand By Me"" at their 25 September, '87 show at Philadelphia's old JFK Stadium, accompanied by a guest performance from Bruce Springsteen. The band performed ""Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)"" at their final concert in Tempe, Arizona on 20 December 1987. The band had recorded the track for the compilation album ""A Very Special Christmas"" months earlier on the European leg of their tour. The band filmed and recorded various shows from the tour for the documentary and album ""Rattle and Hum"". The band filmed the"