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Concerts Music News 

A Live Aid-style concert for Ukraine is coming this summer at Wembley Stadium in London with U2 and the Rolling Stones

March 6, 2023March 6, 2023 Alan Cross 2 Comments Benefit, Live Aid, London, Rolling Stones, U2, Ukraine, Wembley

With Putin’s illegal, immoral, and evil war in Ukraine dragging on, there’s a certain amount of fatigue settling into some

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Concerts Music News 

Are we about to get another Live Aid concert as a COVID benefit?

June 11, 2021June 11, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Band Aid Charitable Trust, Benefit, Bob Geldof, COVID-19, Live Aid

There have been two Bob Geldof-organized Live Aid events. The first came in 1985 as a way to draw attention

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Music History 

Live Aid was 35 years ago today

July 13, 2020July 13, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1985, Live Aid

After achieving some success with the release of Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas,” the organizer of the project,

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Movies 

Here’s Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury at Live Aid, 1985

September 24, 2017September 23, 2017 Alan Cross 2 Comments Biopic, Freddie Mercury, Live Aid, Rami Malek

Rami Malek, our guy from Mr Robot, won the role of Freddie Mercury in the now-in-production biopic, had to recreate

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Music History 

Live Aid Happened 30 Years Ago Today. Here’s an Oral History of the Event.

July 13, 2015July 12, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1985, 30th Anniversary, Live Aid

This comes from Yahoo! Music. If you remember Saturday, July 13, 1985, you need to read this. They were the

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Music News
Music News 

Random Music News for Saturday, July 11, 2015

July 11, 2015July 11, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments 30th Anniversary, Apple Music, Billy Zoom, Clash, Live Aid, Mick Jagger, Movie, One Direction, Synthesizers, U2, Woody Harrelson, Yamaha

Fifty-five years ago today, To Kill a Mockingbird was published.  Meanwhile, here’s your roundup of music news for Saturday. Yet

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Music History 

30 Years After Live Aid: Where Are They Now?

July 7, 2015 Alan Cross 1 Comment 1985, 30th Anniversary, 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.

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