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
Do They Know It's Christmas?
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"Do They Know It's Christmas?" is a charity song written in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia. It was first recorded by Band Aid, a supergroup consis
Live Aid
…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 jukebox", Live Aid was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London and John F. Kennedy Stadium in…
Cover artwork by Peter Blake
Do They Know It's Christmas single cover 1989
Do They Know It's Christmas single cover 2004
Geldof (right) persuaded a reluctant Bono to sing the line "Well, tonight thank God it's them, instead of you".