There’s a Live Aid documentary commemorating its 40th anniversary
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
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Random music news for Tuesday, June 24, 2025
We were introduced to the shark in Jaws 50 years ago this summer. That shark is now in the public domain. As for music news for June 24, 2025… More
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There’s a new musical based on Live Aid. I talked to Bob Geldof about it.
[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,
Read MoreA musical based on Live Aid is coming to Toronto in 2025
If 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
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A Live Aid-style concert for Ukraine is coming this summer at Wembley Stadium in London with U2 and the Rolling Stones
With 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.
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Are we about to get another Live Aid concert as a COVID benefit?
There 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
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After 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
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Here’s Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury at Live Aid, 1985
Rami 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
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Live Aid Happened 30 Years Ago Today. Here’s an Oral History of the Event.
This 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
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Random Music News for Saturday, July 11, 2015
Fifty-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
Read More30 Years After Live Aid: Where Are They Now?
I 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
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