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Following the all-star Band Aid "Do They Know It's Christmas?" benefit single the previous December, it was 20-odd hours of ...
Forty years ago, the legendary Live Aid concerts simulcast from Philadelphia and London aimed to do a lot of good.
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 ...
Band Aid's 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' was the fastest-selling single in UK history - but readers might be surprised to ...
The Irish singer songwriter and political activist lost his daughter Peaches in 2014 and asked himself 'what could you have ...
Bob Geldof produced one of the greatest feats in rock 'n' roll history with Live Aid. A new CNN series takes a deep dive.
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 ...
A compilation of Heart and Heart 80s' interviews about Band Aid and #LiveAid with Bob Geldof, Midge Ure, Tony Hadley and Nik ...
Michael Buerk, a journalist who reported on the Ethiopian famine in 1984, has said his initial reaction to the Live Aid concerts, which raised funds for the crisis, “was real anger”.
He was driving up from Sussex, listening to U2 on the radio, and they were so good, he was getting really nervous,” remembers ...
The National Library of Ireland has now digitised 2,000 photographs and made them available to the public to view online to ...