"by Bill Gordon with assistance from Zev Eizics of Australian Concert Entertainment. Band Aid co-founder Midge Ure was brought to Australia to head the day-long televised performances. Live satellite crosses to fellow co-founder Bob Geldof and other Band Aid performers were included. The concert raised $1 million which was paid to the Red Cross. Bill Gordon floated the idea of a UK concert with Ure utilising all of the performers of Band Aid's charity single ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"". Gordon visited Geldof and the Band Aid Committee in London in April 1985 to secure a place for Australia in"
"Fashion Aid Fashion Aid was a single venue benefit concert held on 5 November 1985. The original event was organised by Bob Geldof as part of Live Aid to raise funds for relief of the ongoing Ethiopian famine. Billed as the ""largest gathering of fashion creatives in the UK"", the event was held at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England, United Kingdom (attended by 5,500 people) . Fashion Aid was created as an alternate funding initiative following on from the success of [Live Aid] earlier in the same year. Bob Geldof and his wife Paula Yates decided it would"
"of 1985, Mitchell was contacted by Bob Geldof, an English rock musician, that had been working on issues of drought and famine in Africa. Geldof asked Mitchell to produce a worldwide televised music show to raise funds to help alleviate the catastrophic consequences of the worst African famine in a century. Mitchell became the Executive Producer of the worldwide Live Aid broadcast (under a newly formed venture Worldwide Sports and Entertainment) and President of the Live Aid Foundation in America. The July 13, 1985 broadcast was the world's first large globally interactive show seen by 1.5 billion viewers in 150"
"Aid and Live Aid phenomenon of the 1980s. Instead of publicising new Boomtown Rats release as planned, Bob Geldof announced the creation of the Band Aid project on Skinner's Radio 1 show in 1984. Then on 13 July 1985, Skinner made the opening announcement at Live Aid (""It's twelve noon in London ..."") as the event got underway. He also fronted the first hours of BBC TV's Bafta Award-winning coverage. In 2018, Skinner's original Live Aid opening announcement was featured in the remarkable recreation of the concert in the Queen bio-pic 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. In the spring of 1986, Skinner left"
"Zandra Rhodes and Katharine Hamnett. The event also featured fashion designs from Calvin Klein, Giorgio Armani, Issey Miyake and Yves Saint Laurent. Fashion Aid Fashion Aid was a single venue benefit concert held on 5 November 1985. The original event was organised by Bob Geldof as part of Live Aid to raise funds for relief of the ongoing Ethiopian famine. Billed as the ""largest gathering of fashion creatives in the UK"", the event was held at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England, United Kingdom (attended by 5,500 people) . Fashion Aid was created as an alternate funding initiative following"
"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"
"Stadium was the venue for an enormous 16-hour charity rock concert, largely the brain-child of Irish singer Bob Geldof, in partnership with Midge Ure from Ultravox. Shocked by the famine in Ethiopia, Geldof had created Band Aid, which had released the single Do They Know It’s Christmas/Feed The World in late 1984. Now he had helped arrange a live charity event on an as yet unheard-of scale. As Geldof later said “Wembley had to be the centrepiece: for the thing to have any authority it had to be staged at Wembley.” It was held simultaneously with John F. Kennedy Stadium"
"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"
"Aid charity, which held its first concert in September 1985. The concert raised over $9 million for America's family farmers and became an annual event. Geldof was not happy about the Hooters being added as the opening band in Philadelphia. He felt pressured into it by Graham and local promoter Larry Magid. Magid, promoting the concert through Electric Factory Concerts, argued that the band was popular in Philadelphia; their first major label album ""Nervous Night"" had been released almost three months earlier had been a hit. In an interview for ""Rolling Stone"", Geldof asked: ""Who the fuck are the Hooters?"""
"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"
"during the 50th show in November 1984 that Bob Geldof allegedly ran into Midge Ure and suggested the idea of a fund-raising single for the Christmas market to help the Ethiopian famine, the project that would become Band Aid and later Live Aid. The Jam performed on the first edition of the show in 1982, it was their last live TV appearance together before they split up at the end of the year. The cornerstone of the shows was the live performances from three or four bands each week. In an era where most music TV shows featured non-stop miming,"
"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"
"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"
"Band Aid (band) Band Aid is a charity supergroup featuring mainly British and Irish musicians and recording artists. It was founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for anti-famine efforts in Ethiopia by releasing the song ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"" for the Christmas market that year. On 25 November 1984, the song was recorded at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, London, and was released in the UK four days later. The single surpassed the hopes of the producers to become the Christmas number one on that release. Three subsequent re-recordings of the song"
"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,"
"Philadelphia and organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia. While the ABC network showed only selected highlights during primetime, MTV broadcast 16 hours of coverage. Along with VH1, MTV broadcast the Live 8 concerts, a series of concerts set in the G8 states and South Africa, on July 2, 2005. Live 8 preceded the 31st G8 summit and the 20th anniversary of Live Aid. MTV drew heavy criticism for its coverage of Live 8. The network cut to commercials, VJ commentary, or other performances during performances. Complaints surfaced on the Internet over"
"brains behind the original Band Aid. It was she who became the driving force that inspired (and helped) Geldof to rally the most famous pop stars of the 1980s to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. The group was composed of forty artists to raise awareness and funds for the Ethiopian famine in 1983–1985 . The group's name stemmed from the idea that the musicians were providing aid to the less fortunate and suggested that their project was likened to putting a band-aid on a wound. Geldof was looking for support from all nations for Africa beginning in the"
"He also co-organised the Live Aid concert of 1985 along with Geldof and Harvey Goldsmith. Geldof and Ure have been honoured with two Ivor Novello awards for writing the song. He helped organising and did perform at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute. Ure has been the Musical Director and performed at The Prince's Trust Rock Concerts 1986,1987,1988, 2010 and 2011. Ure performed at Music for Montserrat, September 15, 1997, to raise funds for the Caribbean island of Montserrat, which had been devastated by the hurricane Hugo in 1989 and in 1997, Montserrat was practically destroyed by the volcanic activity."
"producer Clive Langer. Lewis' work with Amnesty International has been credited by politically conscious and active artists such as Bono, Sting and Peter Gabriel as having been a factor in the growing social activism of rock musicians since the early 1980s. In a 1986 interview in ""Rolling Stone magazine"", Bono said: ""I saw ""The Secret Policeman's Ball"" and it became a part of me. It sowed a seed..."" Live Aid and Live 8 organizer Bob Geldof's first-ever participation in a benefit show was at 1981's The Secret Policeman's Other Ball - the event where he first worked with Midge Ure"
"the title changed to ""Phil Collins: No Ticket Required"". It won an ACE AWARD for best TV Music special in 1986. Another television special was recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England for Cinemax show called ""Album Flash"". The Live Aid concerts were notable for Collins performing at both the Philadelphia and London shows. Bob Geldof, the organiser of Live Aid, originally asked Collins to be part of Geldof's first charity effort, Band Aid. Collins provided drums and sang backing vocals for Band Aid's 1984 No. 1 UK hit, ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"". For Live Aid Collins"
"YU Rock Misija YU Rock Misija (known in English as YU Rock Mission) was the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's contribution to Bob Geldof's Band Aid campaign, which culminated with the Live Aid concert. It consisted of recording the ""Za milion godina"" single and staging a concert held at Red Star Stadium on 15 June 1985, both featuring top acts of the Yugoslav rock scene. The proceeds from both the single and the concert were given to Band Aid. Talking about how YU Rock Misija came about, rock critic Peca Popović stated in an interview for the ""Rockovnik"" documentary TV"
"Live Aid concerts, held July 13, 1985, which were an outgrowth of the 1984 charity single ""Do They Know It's Halloween?"" and became the largest musical concert in history with performers on two main stages, one in London, England and the other in Philadelphia, USA (plus some other acts performing in other countries) and televised worldwide. The concert lasted 16 hours and featured nearly everybody who was in the forefront of rock and pop in 1985. The charity event raised millions of dollars for famine relief in Africa. Live Aid became a model for many other fund-raising and consciousness-raising efforts,"
"going to attend both Live Aid shows as well, but ""they all chickened out."" ""By default, I was the only one who did it,"" he later claimed. Bob Geldof, the organiser of Live Aid, originally asked Collins to be part of Geldof's first charity effort, Band Aid. Collins played the drums and performed backing vocals for Band Aid's UK number one hit in 1984, ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"". Collins first performed with Sting at Wembley, and together they performed ""In the Air Tonight"", ""Against All Odds"", ""Long Long Way to Go"" and ""Every Breath You Take"", accompanied by saxophonist"
"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"
"and persuaded them to record the single under the title 'Band Aid' for free. On 25 November 1984, the song was recorded at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, London, and was released four days later. It stayed at number-one for five weeks in the UK, was Christmas number one, and became the fastest-selling single ever in Britain and raised £8 million, rather than the £70,000 Geldof and Ure had initially expected. Geldof then set his sights on staging a huge concert to raise further funds. The idea to stage a charity concert to raise more funds for Ethiopia originally"
"the planned event. The idea grew to become the Live Aid concept, which was to have concerts in UK, USA and elsewhere (including Australia). Due to time zone differences the Oz for Africa concert began twelve hours before the Wembley Stadium, London leg and was thus the first Live Aid concert. Oz for Africa was organised by furniture dealer Bill Gordon and music producer Brian de Courcy, in co-operation with Geldof and the Band Aid trust. Gordon sold his furniture business to use the cash to support the concert. The compere, Ian ""Molly"" Meldrum, was the musical director of Australian"
"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"
"company, earning assignments from a variety of publications. In October 1971, Preston moved permanently to Los Angeles. Over the past four decades, his work has been featured in countless magazines and used on the covers of hundreds of music-related releases. In 1985, Preston was chosen as one of the official photographers for Bob Geldof’s “Live Aid” concert at London’s Wembley Stadium. In 1988, he was official tour photographer for Amnesty International’s “A Conspiracy of Hope” international tour featuring Bruce Springsteen, Sting, and Peter Gabriel. His archives were the primary source of still photographs for over 50 episodes of VH-1’s music"
"In 1984, Bono and Adam Clayton participated in Band Aid to raise money for the 1983–85 famine in Ethiopia. This initiative produced the hit charity single ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"", which would be the first among several collaborations between U2 and Bob Geldof. In July 1985, U2 played Live Aid, a follow-up to Band Aid's efforts. Bono and his wife Ali, invited by World Vision, later visited Ethiopia where they witnessed the famine first hand. Bono would later say this laid the groundwork for his Africa campaigning and some of his songwriting. In 1986, U2 participated in the A"
"by the books, record albums and appearances of Kermit Schafer, a radio and TV producer who first popularized outtakes of broadcasts. For a period of several years in the 1980s, Clark simultaneously hosted regular programs on all three major American television networks - ABC (""Bandstand""), CBS (""Pyramid""), and NBC (""Bloopers""). In July 1985, Clark hosted the ABC primetime portion of the historic Live Aid concert, an all star concert designed by Bob Geldof to end world hunger. Clark also hosted various pageants from 1988-93 on CBS. He did a brief stint as announcer on ""The Jon Stewart Show"" in 1995."
"£8 million for famine relief within twelve months of its release. Other charity singles soon followed; ""We Are the World"" by USA for Africa was the most successful of these, selling 20 million copies worldwide. Live Aid, a 1985 fund-raising effort headed by Geldof, induced millions of people in the West to donate money and to urge their governments to participate in the relief effort in Ethiopia. Some of the proceeds also went to the famine hit areas of Eritrea. The event raised £145 million. In America, the supergroup USA for Africa released the single ""We Are the World"", written"
"news coverage and celebrity endorsement were mobilized to galvanize large-scale government-led famine (and other forms of) relief in response to disasters around the world. The 1983–85 famine in Ethiopia caused upwards of 1 million deaths and was documented by a BBC news crew, with Michael Buerk describing ""a biblical famine in the 20th Century"" and ""the closest thing to hell on Earth"". Live Aid, a 1985 fund-raising effort headed by Bob Geldof induced millions of people in the West to donate money and to urge their governments to participate in the relief effort in Ethiopia. Some of the proceeds also"
"the incentive for viewers to donate would be minimal. Bob Geldof, the founder of Live Aid, is aware of the need of familiarity and para-social interaction on behalf of the viewer. When criticised for not inviting enough African performers to play at Live Aid (of which the main purpose was famine relief for Africa), Geldof commented that only popular musicians were invited to play at the show because unfamiliar artists would cause viewers to lose interest and “switch off”. In seeing the familiar face of their beloved artist on stage endorsing a cause, fans feel more compelled to support the"