Live Aid

Live Aid was a multi-venue rock music concert held on July 13, 1985. The event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in order to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia. Billed as a "global jukebox", the main sites for the event were Wembley Stadium, London, attended by 72,000 people, and JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, attended by about 90,000 people, with some acts performing at other venues such as Sydney and Moscow. It was one of the largest scale satellite link-ups and TV broadcasts of all time -- an estimated 1.5 billion viewers in 100 countries watched the live broadcast.

References

• Live Aid: Rockin' All Over the World - BBC TV documentary recalling the build-up to the day and the day itself. Viewed 18th June 2005.
• Live Aid: World Wide Concert Book - Peter Hillmore with Introduction by Bob Geldof -ISBN 0-88101-024-3 - Copyright 1985 The Unicorn Publishing House, New Jersey.