Forty years after Live Aid, U2’s Bono recalled the “bad hair day” he had during the charity concert in London in 1985 “One of the most famous moments of your life and your activism, you’ve got a ...
“It was our Woodstock, but better,” Nile Rodgers asserts in Live Aid: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World, referring to the all-star charity concerts broadcast around the world 40 years ago. Boomers ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Ebet Roberts/Getty Images A groggy 9am on Saturday, July 13, 1985. The JFK Stadium in ...
Forty years ago, music history was made when simultaneous concerts in London and Philadelphia raised money for famine relief. Beyond the dollars, Live Aid supercharged how benefit concerts could make ...
Backstage at Live Aid in Philadelphia in 1985 are (from left) David Crosby, Graham Nash, Stephen Stills, Jack Nicholson, Fred Spanjaard. Courtesy photo Back in 1985 when Live Aid, the largest charity ...
“One of the most famous moments of your life and your activism, you’ve got a mullet,” Bono said in a new documentary about Live Aid Staff/Mirrorpix via Getty; VALERY HACHE/AFP via Getty Forty years ...