Live Aid
- TV Special
- 1985
- 16h
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8.5/10
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The broadcast of the biggest benefit concert in history, organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.The broadcast of the biggest benefit concert in history, organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.The broadcast of the biggest benefit concert in history, organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
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Stuart Adamson
- Self
- (as Big Country)
Tom Bailey
- Self
- (as Thompson Twins)
Andrew Bown
- Self
- (as Status Quo)
Pete Briquette
- Self
- (as Boomtown Rats)
Charlie Burchill
- Self
- (as Simple Minds)
- Directors
- Vincent Scarza
- Kenneth Shapiro(national syndication)
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaDuring The Who's set, a red warning light at the front of the stage flashed to alert the band that their time was up. In response, Pete Townshend stepped on the warning light, broke it, and the band played for five extra minutes.
- Quotes
Bob Geldof: [to the audience and world] Please. Please. Please. Give us as much money as we know you have. Thanks.
- Alternate versionsIn its original form, the concert ran 16 hours. There were two versions of the U.S. telecast - one incarnation aired complete on MTV, another produced by ABC was in two parts, part one (the first eleven hours) airing in syndication, part two (the final three hours) airing on ABC. In any case, the DVD version is edited to ten hours, leaving out many key performances, such as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Power Station, The Hooters, The Four Tops, Rick Springfield, Bernard Watson, Santana, and Led Zeppelin. The DVD version also contains an aurally altered version of Paul McCartney's performance of "Let It Be" (due to a microphone problem in the first half of the song, McCartney had to re-record his vocals twenty years after the fact so that it could be included on the DVD).
- ConnectionsFeatured in American Bandstand's 33 1/3 Celebration (1985)
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This is a cultural, musical and historical treasure trove of some of the greatest and most influential rock/pop musicians ever. Stand out performances for me were Queen, The Who and U2, I have watched them over and over. It is hours and hours of footage, and even after you have gorged yourself on it, there is still more! And then not even all the acts and songs were captured, as Geldof had originally requested that the event not be recorded!
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Live Aid was not only a great and memorable musical event, but a major technical achievement of its time. Remember this is in an era before the internet, mobile phones, when even sending and receiving an international fax was hit and miss. According to Wikipedia, an estimated 1.5 billion viewers, across 100 countries, watched the live broadcast.
It is also arguably the single biggest charity and cultural change event ever in terms of not only it scale, but its impact.
Bob Geldof always said, as acknowledged in the very name 'Band Aid', that the record and the ensuing concerts were a stop-gap - emergency relief. The point of the event was to raise money, yes, but also to put the issue of extreme poverty on the political agenda.
Bearing in mind that these kinds of immense social changes can take decades, it can be safely said that Live Aid did do just that by sowing some seeds of change.
The story of Live Aid and what it is about in its broadest sense has stayed with many people. It is bigger than its critics.
Fans of LIVE AID can also join a group on Facebook http://groups.to/liveaid
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3604680.stm
Live Aid was not only a great and memorable musical event, but a major technical achievement of its time. Remember this is in an era before the internet, mobile phones, when even sending and receiving an international fax was hit and miss. According to Wikipedia, an estimated 1.5 billion viewers, across 100 countries, watched the live broadcast.
It is also arguably the single biggest charity and cultural change event ever in terms of not only it scale, but its impact.
Bob Geldof always said, as acknowledged in the very name 'Band Aid', that the record and the ensuing concerts were a stop-gap - emergency relief. The point of the event was to raise money, yes, but also to put the issue of extreme poverty on the political agenda.
Bearing in mind that these kinds of immense social changes can take decades, it can be safely said that Live Aid did do just that by sowing some seeds of change.
The story of Live Aid and what it is about in its broadest sense has stayed with many people. It is bigger than its critics.
Fans of LIVE AID can also join a group on Facebook http://groups.to/liveaid
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