July 13 will mark 40 years since pop and rock music tried to save the world. In the pre-Internet world, Live Aid was an unprecedented global event that was seen by billions around
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Read More[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Saturday, July 13, 1985, will forevermore be known as one of the biggest days in music history. Bob Geldof, the scruffy, scrappy frontman of
Read MoreIf you’re familiar with what goes on in London’s West End, you may have heard about Just for One Day, a musical based on Live Aid, which will celebrate its 40th anniversary next
Read MoreWith Putin’s illegal, immoral, and evil war in Ukraine dragging on, there’s a certain amount of fatigue settling into some parts of the world. This can’t be allowed to happen. The West needs
Read MoreThere have been two Bob Geldof-organized Live Aid events. The first came in 1985 as a way to draw attention to a famine in Ethiopia. The second was Live 8 in 2005 which
Read MoreAfter achieving some success with the release of Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas,” the organizer of the project, Boomtown Rats’ frontman Bob Geldof, decided that the music industry needed to do
Read MoreRami Malek, our guy from Mr Robot, won the role of Freddie Mercury in the now-in-production biopic, had to recreate Queen’s legendary Live Aid performance. Here’s Rami as Freddie… …and here’s the original
Read MoreThis comes from Yahoo! Music. If you remember Saturday, July 13, 1985, you need to read this. They were the world. They were the rock ‘n’ children. Hard as it may be to
Read MoreFifty-five years ago today, To Kill a Mockingbird was published. Meanwhile, here’s your roundup of music news for Saturday. Yet another movie about the Clash? Okay. U2 has a new short film starring
Read MoreI remember Live Aid well: Saturday, July 13, 1985. It’s hard to overstate just how big an event this was. No one had ever conceived of staging such an event (on two continents!)
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