16 Facts About Live Aid

Live Aid was a multi-venue benefit concert held on Saturday 13 July 1985, as well as a music-based fundraising initiative.

The organisers of Live Aid tried to run aid efforts directly, channelling millions of pounds to NGOs in Ethiopia.

Live Aid's had become God-like and that is unbearable for anyone.

Live Aid had to call Elton and say Queen are in and Bowie's in, and of course they weren't.

Uplinger came up with the idea to produce a four-hour video edit of Live Aid to distribute to those countries without the necessary satellite equipment to rebroadcast the live feed.

Related searches

Live Aid later joked by saying he had thought about changing the lyrics to "There will be some feedback, let it be".

Live Aid stopped just after the line "The lesson today is how to die" to loud applause.

Live Aid just has a huge charisma; he'd make a frightening politician.

Live Aid's was being crushed by people pushing forwards; Bono saw this, and gestured frantically at the ushers to help her.

Live Aid felt pressured into it by Graham and local promoter Larry Magid.

The Band Live Aid Trust complained to the BBC Editorial Complaints Unit regarding the specific allegations in the BBC World Service documentary, and their complaint was upheld.

Live Aid had himself recently returned from a trip to Africa to see how the money had so far been spent, and suggested that Lewis do the same.

An audio copy of Live Aid was officially released by the Band Aid Trust label on 7 September 2018 on digital download.

Since the official DVD release of Live Aid includes only partial footage of this event, unofficial distribution sources continue to be the only source of the most complete recordings of this event.

Many artists and performers at Live Aid gained prominence and positive commercial influence.

Queen's performance at Live Aid was recreated in the band's 2018 biographical film Bohemian Rhapsody.