Live Aid

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Live Aid
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• July 13, 1985
• Organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure (same as
  Band Aid)
• Raise funds for relief of Ethiopian famine

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• Held at Wembley Stadium in London, England
  (attended by 72,000 people) and John F. Kennedy
  Stadium in Philadelphia (attended by 100,000
  people)

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• One of the largest scale satellite link ups and
  television broadcasts of all time
• 150 nations watched live

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• Geldof received an honorary knighthood for his
  work in Live Aid

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• Mick Jagger and David Bowie were supposed to
  perform at the two separate locations together,
  but technical difficulties occurred and they
  created covers of songs to play on the screens at
  the stadiums

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• Band Aid and Do They Know Its Christmas closed
  the UK concert
• USA for Africas We are the World closed the
  USA concert

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• Phil Collins performed at both of the concerts-
  he used a Concorde to get him from London to
  Philadelphia

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Queen

• Freddie Mercury led the entire crowd of 72,000
• Opened with Bohemian Rhapsody, closed with We are
  the Champions

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• Queens sound engineer had switched out the
  limiters that had been installed on the sound
  system so their performance would be louder than
  the others

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• Their performance has been voted as the greatest
  live performance in the history of rock music
• Sang the first song of the three part Wembley
  finale Is This The World We Created?

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• U2- would be established as superstars
• Bono jumped into the crowd to dance with a girl
  (who later said that she was being crushed by the
  crowd and he saved her)

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• David Bowie- Heroes dedicated to his son- and
  All our children, and the children of the world

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• Wembley- The Who performed My Generation and
  technical problems occurred (fuse blew) and
  Wont Get Fooled Again
• Paul McCartneys Let It Be- microphone failed
  for first 2 minutes

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• Performers went out on the stage with McCartney
  to help sing back up since he couldnt be heard
  (Bob Geldof, David Bowie, Alison Moyet, Pete
  Townshend all went out)

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• Bob Geldof was put on the shoulders of The Whos
  guitarist Pete Townshend and Paul McCartney-
  symbolizing his great achievement of unifying the
  world for one day, in the spirit of music and
  charity

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JFK Stadium

• Madonna performed
• Tom Petty American Girl
• Bob Dylan- broke a guitar string
• Ronnie Wood gave him his guitar, and played air
  guitar until someone brought him one

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• Mick Jagger ripped away part of Tina Turners
  dress during their duet of Its Only Rock n
  Roll and she finished the song in basically a
  leotard

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• Reunions of Crosby Stills Nash Young and
  original Black Sabbath (Ozzy Osbourne), Led
  Zeppelin (with Phil Collins and Tony Thompson
  sharing drum duty)

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• Teddy Pendergrass made his first public
  appearance since his near fatal car accident in
  1982- performed Reach Out and Touch with
  Ashford Simpson

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• Duran Duran- performed four songs
• They would not perform together again in public
  until 2003
• Simon Le Bon hit a wrong note in A View to a
  Kill known as The Bum Note Heard Round the
  World
• Le Bon said it was the most embarrassing moment
  of his career

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• Geldof had an outburst when he was disappointed
  about the amount of money raised. After this,
  giving increased by 300 pounds per second.

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• Video was shown of starving and diseased
  Ethiopian children set to the song Drive by The
  Cars- rate of giving became faster right
  afterwards

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• Single largest donation came from the ruling
  family of Dubai
• They donated 1 million pounds in a phone
  conversation with Geldof

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• Around 150 million pounds was raised for famine
  relief as a result of the concerts

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Some of the performers at Wembley

• The Boomtown Rats, Adam Ant, Spandau Ballet,
  Ultravox, Elvis Costello, Sade, Sting, Phil
  Collins, Bryan Ferry, Paul Young, U2, Dire
  Straits, Queen, David Bowie, The Who, Elton John,
  George Michael, Paul McCartney

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Some of the performers at JFK

• Joan Baez, Four Tops, Billy Ocean, Black Sabbath,
  Run DMC, Rick Springfield, REO Speedwagon, Crosby
  Stills and Nash, Judas Priest, Bryan Adams, The
  Beach Boys, George Thorogood and the Destroyers,
  Simple Minds, The Pretenders, Santana, Madonna,
  Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Kenny Loggins,
  The Cars

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• Thompson Twins, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Led
  Zeppelin, Duran Duran, Patti LaBelle, Hall
  Oates, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan

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• The logistics of this thing are staggering. But
  we tend to forget, in and amongst all the hoopla,
  what this is all about, and that is that this
  should be able to raise a lot of money to feed a
  lot of people.
• Bob Geldof

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• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vAx0_lhKnHCYlistPL
  2CEB3B442FF5AED2
• This includes over 20 different performances from
  Live Aid
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v4FNoIDgNE6o
• This is Queens Bohemian Rhapsody and Radio Ga Ga
  from Live Aid
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vOM0g-7sZeSo
• Freddie Mercury and Brian May Is This The World
  We Created at Live Aid