Farm Aid
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Farm Aid is a benefit concert held nearly every year since 1985 for American farmers.
Willie Nelson
Neil Young
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Margo Price
Live Aid
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Live Aid was a two-venue benefit concert and music-based fund-raising initiative held on Saturday, 13 July 1985. The event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise further funds for relief o
Farm Aid
…nearly every year since 1985 for American farmers. On July 13, 1985, before performing "When the Ship Comes In" with Keith Richards and Ron Wood at the Live Aid benefit concert for the 1983–1985 Ethiopian famine, Bob Dylan remarked about family farmers within the United States in danger of losing their farms…
Official Live Aid poster featuring artwork by Peter Blake
The reports of Michael Buerk (pictured in 2012) on the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia for BBC World Service helped spark the aid relief movement.
Bob Geldof (pictured in 1987) successfully pitched the idea of the Live Aid concert to promoter Harvey Goldsmith
The old Wembley Stadium (pictured) hosted the London concert