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
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
1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia
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A widespread famine affected Ethiopia from 1983 to 1985. The worst famine to hit the country in a century, it affected 7.75 million people and left approximately 300,000 to 1.2 million dead. 2.5 milli
Live Aid
…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 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…
Royal Air Force C-130 airdropping food during the famine in 1985
According to Oxfam and Human Rights Watch, Mengistu Haile Mariam helped to organize policies that multiplied the effects of the famine. He was sentenced to death in Ethiopia for crimes committed during his government (Derg). As of 2018[update],[needs update] Mengistu lived in exile in Zimbabwe.
Famine relief being unloaded off a truck in 1985
Food distribution organized by Ethiopian Red Cross volunteers