I remember watching the televised event from both Wembley and JFK stadium in Philly. Organized by Bob Geldoff and Midge Ure in response to the famine in Ethiopia. It was an awesome spectacle that was attended by about 160,000 people in both stadiums. 1.9 billion people watched on TV around the world.
In London's Wembly Stadium:
7 am: Bob Geldolf opens Live Aid; Status Quo; Style Council; Boomtown Rats with Adam Ant.
8 am: Adam Ant; Ultravox; Spandau Ballet.
9 am: Elvis Costello; Nik Kershaw with Billy Conally; Sade.
10 am: Phil Collins with Julian Lennon; Sting with Howard Jones.
11 am: Bryan Ferry; Paul Young with Alison Moyet. 12:30 pm: U2.
1 pm: Dire Straits; Queen.
2 pm: David Bowie.
3 pm: The Who; Elton John.
4 pm: Wham! ; Paul McCartney.
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In Philadephia's JFK Stadium:
9 am: Joan Baez; The Hooters; The Four Tops; Billy Ocean.
10 am: Black Sabbath with Ozzy Osbourne; Run-DMC; Rick Springfield; REO Speedwagon.
11 am: Crosby, Stills, Nash; Judas Priest.
12 pm: Bryan Adams; The Beach Boys.
1 pm: George Thorogood; Queens Performance from London.
2 pm: Music video featuring David Bowie and Mick Jagger; Simple Minds; The Pretenders.
3 pm: Santana with Pat Metheny; Ashford and Simpson with Teddy Pendergrass.
4:30 pm: Madonna; Rod Stewart. 5 pm: Tom Petty; Kenny Loggins; The Cars.
6 pm: Neil Young; Power Station. 7 pm: Thompson Twins; Eric Clapton.
8 pm: Phil Collins with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page; Duran Duran.
9 pm: Patti LaBelle; Daryll Hall and John Oats with Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin.
10 pm: Mick Jagger; Jagger with Tina Turner; Bob Dylan.
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Ah yes, Phil Collins hopping on the Concorde to play both venues. To raise awareness of famine in Africa.
The snark is lighthearted, 15 year old me thought this was the most amazing thing ever. A week of negotiation was undertaken to secure unfettered access to the home VCR and cable to tape the entire thing onto a set of Beta tapes that I hung on to until about five years ago. The last Beta machine I had would have been gone more like 20 years ago.
I often wonder about the long term effects of Band Aid.
Is there less famine in Africa or the World?
Spoilered for being a total bummer.
Spoiler!
"The Ethiopian dictator, Mengistu, until then deadlocked in the war, was using the money the west gave him to buy sophisticated weapons from the Russians, and was now able to efficiently and viciously crush the opposition. Ethiopia, then the third poorest country in the world, suddenly had the largest, best equipped army on the African continent."
I like to think Live Aid and "do they know it's christmas time?" is where Bono learned that you could leverage western guilt into huge sums of money with little to no oversight, allowing him to get richer than everyone in Pink Floyd combined.
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"The Ethiopian dictator, Mengistu, until then deadlocked in the war, was using the money the west gave him to buy sophisticated weapons from the Russians, and was now able to efficiently and viciously crush the opposition. Ethiopia, then the third poorest country in the world, suddenly had the largest, best equipped army on the African continent."
I like to think Live Aid and "do they know it's christmas time?" is where Bono learned that you could leverage western guilt into huge sums of money with little to no oversight, allowing him to get richer than everyone in Pink Floyd combined.
yeah deep down inside of me i kind of knew the answer
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Captain James P. DeCOSTE, CD, 18 Sep 1993
was a teenager, and randomly found myself on that day in a pub (this was lunchtime/mid day) in England watching the spectacle. just outside of London as I recall- so close yet so far
I did buy an awesome Live Aid Tshirt that my daughter now wears (which the internet just told me I could try and sell for 275 pounds) and a poster that is rolled up in my garage somewhere though
Happy 36th anniversary Live Aid
