Live Aid [DVD] [2005]

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If you want to watch the BBC broadcast feed, I have uploaded it here. It's in the link below. Let me know if there are any issues. Youngs, Ian (27 August 2004). "How Live Aid was saved for history". BBC News . Retrieved 6 March 2011. a b Edwards, Gavin (10 July 2014). "U2's 'Bad' Break: 12 Minutes at Live Aid That Made the Band's Career". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 13 July 2020. Live Aid was a multi-venue benefit concert held on Saturday 13 July 1985, as well as a music-based fundraising initiative. The original event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise further funds for relief of the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia, a movement that started with the release of the successful charity single " Do They Know It's Christmas?" in December 1984. Billed as the "global jukebox", Live Aid was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London, attended by about 72,000 people, and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, attended by 89,484 people. [1] [2]

In-depth interview between Hal Uplinger, producer of the "Live Aid Concert", the United States event, and the National Museum of American History (part of the Smithsonian Institution)

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During his opening number, " American Girl", Tom Petty flipped the middle finger to somebody off stage about one minute into the song. Petty stated the song was a last-minute addition when the band realised that they would be the first act to play the American side of the concert after the London finale and "since this is, after all, JFK Stadium". [55] a b Harris, Will (25 February 2008). "Eric Bazilian interview". Popdose.com . Retrieved 6 March 2011.

a b c "Watch David Bowie's iconic performance of 'Heroes' at 'Live Aid' in 1985". Far Out Magazine . Retrieved 14 July 2021. Hepworth, David (25 May 2011). "God Save The Queen by David Hepworth (Radio Times)". Queen Online. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015 . Retrieved 8 October 2015.

Studio Sound and Broadcast Engineering – Live aid, Loudspeakers and Monitor" (PDF). American Radio History. 1985 . Retrieved 23 November 2018.

Peart, Neil (25 April 1988). "All Fired Up". Metal Hammer (Interview). Interviewed by Malcolm Dome . Retrieved 13 December 2015. According to the BBC World Service, a certain proportion of the funds were siphoned off to buy arms for the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front. [81] This coalition battled at the time against Derg. The Band Aid Trust complained to the BBC Editorial Complaints Unit regarding the specific allegations in the BBC World Service documentary, and their complaint was upheld. [82] In 2010 the BBC issued an apology to the Trust and stated there was no evidence money had been diverted, [9] while the former British Ambassador to Ethiopia, Brian Barder, states, "the diversion of aid related only to the tiny proportion that was supplied by some NGOs to rebel-held areas." [10] Paphides, Pete (12 June 2011). "U2 become stars after Live Aid". The Guardian . Retrieved 7 November 2016. Youngs, Ian (3 March 2004). "Geldof thwarts 'Live Aid pirate' ". BBC News . Retrieved 6 March 2011.

How Bob Geldof's 1985 Live Aid concert changed celebrity fundraising forever". London Evening Standard . Retrieved 19 June 2020. a b "Ethiopia famine relief aid: misinterpreted allegations out of control". Barder.com . Retrieved 18 July 2020. Kent, Lucinda (13 July 2015). "Live Aid 30th anniversary: Seven things you may not know about Bob Geldof's charity concert". ABC Online . Retrieved 1 September 2020.

Thin Lizzy keyboard player Darren Wharton expressed regrets about the band not being asked to perform: "That was a tragic, tragic decision. It could've been and it should've been the turning point for Phil ( Lynott). And I think that really did Phil in quite a lot, that we were never asked to play. I mean Phil, he had a few problems at the time, but at the end of the day, if he would've been asked to play Live Aid, that would've been a goal for him to clean himself up to do that gig. We were all very upset of the fact that we weren't asked to do it because Phil knew Geldof and Midge Ure very well indeed. I was surprised that we weren't asked to do that. I don't think Phil ever forgave Bob." [99] Lynott died less than five months after the concert, from complications associated with his drug and alcohol addictions. Self Aid, a 1986 Live Aid-inspired concert highlighting severe unemployment in Ireland, promoted by Jim Aiken The idea to stage a charity concert to raise more funds for Ethiopia originally came from Boy George, the lead singer of Culture Club. George and Culture Club drummer Jon Moss had taken part in the recording of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and in the same month, the band were undertaking a tour of the UK, which culminated in six nights at Wembley Arena. On the final night at Wembley, 22 December 1984, an impromptu gathering of some of the other artists from Band Aid joined Culture Club on stage at the end of the concert for an encore of "Do They Know It's Christmas?". George was so overcome by the occasion he told Geldof that they should consider organising a benefit concert. Speaking to the UK music magazine Melody Maker at the beginning of January 1985, Geldof revealed his enthusiasm for George's idea, saying, "If George is organising it, you can tell him he can call me at any time and I'll do it. It's a logical progression from the record, but the point is you don't just talk about it, you go ahead and do it!" [18]The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (Diverse Interpreten; 'Live Aid ')". IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien.