Dubbed "Live Aid II" by the papers, the Tsunami Relief concert quickly built momentum. But it needed an A-list headline act and none were willing to commit until, just as they were about to give ...

Live Aid started as Band Aid, where Geldof and Ure decided the best way they could assist was through the medium they knew - music. Soon, the single "Do They Know It's Christmas" was released ...

Live aid 85 comes to mind. The concert for New York after nine over 11, and Fire Aid's lineup is right up there. Have you tried you back the fire? Okay, so there will be 72,000 people packed ...

“Live Aid was a monumental event and movement that harnessed the power of popular music and brought more than a billion people together in aid of famine relief. How Live Aid came to be, the ...

Exactly 40 years after Live Aid, the trans-Atlantic benefit concert for famine relief in Ethiopia, a new musical commemorating the cultural event will open in Toronto. “Just for One Day ...

Over the past four decades, it is believed the Band Aid Charitable Trust "has raised more than £140 million in total", said the BBC. The hit also spawned Live Aid, the 1985 concert, and Live 8 ...