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All author royalties and
publisher profits from the sale of this book will go to The Live Aid Trust
On Saturday, 13 July 1985, a blazing, cloudless summer day, millions of people
settled in front of the television. It was just before noon in London, 7 am in
Philadelphia, and around the world, it was time for Live Aid. This pair of huge
concerts had been arranged in fewer than four months by singer and activist Bob
Geldof of The Boomtown Rats: from a standing start to sixteen hours of music,
seventy-plus artists and close to two hundred songs. These concerts mesmerised
a huge global audience and raised millions for the starving in Ethiopia. This book
revisits every band and every song that made up the two Live Aid concerts.
Some made their name at Live Aid — U2 in
particular. Some bands reunited — Status Quo, The Who, Black Sabbath — and some
were performing their last show together. Certain performances last long in the
memory — Queen, of course, but also David Bowie, Elton John, Santana and
others. Indeed, some are best forgotten ...
And, behind it all, the drive of Bob Geldof:
'the best day of my life,' he admitted. For a generation of music fans, 13 July
1985 was a landmark day. It was The Greatest Show On Earth. How much of it do
you remember?
