Live Aid [DVD] [2005]

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Rieff, David (24 June 2005). "Did Live Aid do more harm than good?". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 6 March 2011. Beaumont, Mark. "Aaaaaay-o! Aaaaaay-o! Why Live Aid was the greatest show of all". The Independent . Retrieved 13 July 2020. Youngs, Ian (3 March 2004). "Geldof thwarts 'Live Aid pirate' ". 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. On the same day, concerts inspired by the initiative were held in other countries, such as the Soviet Union, Canada, Japan, Yugoslavia, Austria, Australia, and West Germany. It was one of the largest satellite link-ups and television broadcasts of all time; an estimated audience of 1.9billion, in 150 nations, watched the live broadcast, nearly 40 percent of the world population. [3] [4]

Lynch, Joe (13 July 2015). "Watch Bette Midler Introduce Madonna at Live Aid 30 Years Ago Today". Billboard . Retrieved 17 March 2022. Prince also declined to appear in person, but sent a pre-taped video of an acoustic version of "4 the Tears in Your Eyes", which was played during the concert in Philadelphia. The original version appears on the We Are the World album, [90] while the video version was released in 1993 on Prince's compilation The Hits/The B-Sides. [91] The DVDs contain the new German FSK logo print that was used since 1st December 2008 (the cardboard box still shows the old logo)One afternoon before the concert, Bowie was up in the office and we started looking through some videos of news footage, and we watched the CBC piece [footage from the Ethiopian famine, cut to the Cars' song " Drive"]. Everyone just stopped. Bowie said, 'You've got to put that in the show, it's the most dramatic thing I've ever seen.' That was probably one of the most evocative things in the whole show and really got the money rolling in." 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. Phil Collins performed at both Wembley Stadium and JFK, travelling from Wembley by helicopter (piloted by UK TV personality Noel Edmonds) to London Heathrow Airport, then took a British Airways Concorde flight to New York City, before taking another helicopter to Philadelphia. [25] As well as his own set at both venues, he also played the drums for Eric Clapton, and played with the reuniting surviving members of Led Zeppelin at JFK. On the Concorde flight, Collins encountered actress and singer Cher, who was unaware of the concerts. Upon reaching the US, she attended the Philadelphia concert and can be seen performing as part of the concert's " We Are the World" finale. [19] In a 1985 interview, singer-songwriter Billy Joel stated that he had considered performing at the event, but ultimately chose not to because he had difficulties getting his band together and did not want to perform by himself. [26] Broadcasts [ edit ] Fiorillo, Victor (15 June 2012). "The 10 Most Painful Band Reunions". Philadelphia. Philadelphia . Retrieved 4 August 2015.

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The concert was the most ambitious international satellite television venture that had ever been attempted at the time. Live Aid was a dual-venue benefit concert held on Saturday 13 July 1985, and an ongoing music-based fundraising initiative. The original event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for relief of the ongoing Ethiopian famine. Billed as the “global jukebox”, the event was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London, England, United Kingdom (attended by 72,000 people) and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (attended by about 100,000 people). Published in 2004 on 4 DVD9. When Harvey Met Bob, a 2010 television film dramatising the events leading up to and including the concert Self Aid, a 1986 Live Aid-inspired concert highlighting severe unemployment in Ireland, promoted by Jim Aiken

Andy Peebles—introduced Spandau Ballet, Elvis Costello, Noel Edmonds, Howard Jones, Bryan Ferry, Paul Young, Griff Rhys Jones with Mel Smith and David Bowie When organiser Bob Geldof was persuading artists to take part in the concert, he promised them that it would be a one-off event, never to be seen again. That was the reason why the concert was never recorded in its complete original form, and only secondary television broadcasts were recorded. Following Geldof's request, ABC erased its own broadcast tapes. [103] However, before the syndicated/ABC footage was erased, copies of it were donated to the Smithsonian Institution and have now been presumed lost. The ABC feed of the USA for Africa/"We Are The World" finale does exist in its entirety, complete with the network end credits, and can be found as a supplemental feature on the We Are The World: The Story Behind The Song DVD. Mark Beaumont (11 July 2020). "Aaaaaay-o! Aaaaaay-o! Why Live Aid was the greatest show of all". The Independent . Retrieved 10 August 2020. Queen's performance at Live Aid was later recreated in the band's biographical film Bohemian Rhapsody in 2018. [131] Footage from the original performance can be seen to match very accurately with the movie performance. [131] In 2020, Queen + Adam Lambert reprised the original Queen setlist from Live Aid for the Fire Fight Australia charity concert in Sydney, Australia. [132] Duran Duran performed a four-song set which was the final time the five original band members would publicly perform together until 2003. Their set saw a weak, off-key falsetto note hit by frontman Simon Le Bon during " A View to a Kill". The error was dubbed "The Bum Note Heard Round the World" by various media outlets, [34] [59] in contrast to Freddie Mercury's "Note Heard Round the World" at Wembley. [34] Le Bon later recalled it was the most embarrassing moment of his career. [59]