The 1985 Live-Aid concert for African relief was held simultaneously in London & this U.S. city
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Live Aid | benefit concert [1985] | Britannica.com  Jan 19, 2015 ... Benefit concert held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London and JFK ... television viewers and raised millions of dollars for famine relief in Ethiopia. ... The success of Band Aid and USA for Africa inspired Geldof and Ure to ... performances from more than a half dozen cities around the world, was...
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Live Aid concert - Jul 13, 1985 - HISTORY.com  Live Aid eventually raised $127 million in famine relief for African nations, and .... In early July, Germany and the USSR concentrated their forces near the city of ... Live Aid is held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia and broadcast live...
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Live Aid - Wikipedia  Live Aid was a dual-venue concert held on 13 July 1985, and an ongoing music-based fundraising initiative. The original event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for relief of .... The Live Aid concert in London was also the first time that the BBC outside broadcast sound equipment ..... "Heartbeat City".
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Live Aid is held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia and ...  On this day in History, Live Aid is held simultaneously in London and ... in response to the disastrous east African famine of 1984-1985, Live Aid raised upwards ... rock concert organized to raise money for the relief of famine-stricken Africans. .... Cup football matches, played simultaneously in host city Montevideo, Uruguay.
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Live Aid 30th anniversary: 30 things you never knew about the 1985 ...  Jul 13, 2015 ... ... Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for relief of the Ethiopian famine. Two concerts were held simultaneously and attended by 172,000 at Wembley ... Princess Diana: Attended Live Aid Concert at Wembley, London ... because they were upset at the low number of African-American artists taking part.
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Live Aid concert - Jul 13, 1985 - HISTORY.com  After returning to London, he called Britain's and Ireland's top pop artists together to ... Organized in just 10 weeks, Live Aid was staged on Saturday, July 13, 1985. ... Beatle Paul McCartney and the Who's Pete Townsend held Bob Geldof aloft on their ... In early July 2005, Geldof staged a series of Live 8 concerts in 11...
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Flashback: David Bowie Triumphs at Live Aid in 1985 - Rolling Stone  Jan 26, 2016 ... David Bowie's 1985 Live Aid set was his last truly transcendent moment of the 1980s. ... for a cover of Martha and the Vandellas "Dancing In The Street. ... That left Bowie's performance at the two-continent concert against hunger. ... he still seemed like one of the biggest and most vital rock stars in the world.
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The Big Apple: Live Music Capital of the World (Austin nickname)  Aug 24, 2006 ... The city of Austin, Texas has called itself the Live Music Capital of the World since 1985, when the Austin Convention and Visitors Council...
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AIDS Benefit Concert Draws 72,000 - NYTimes.com  Apr 21, 1992 ... Organizers of the concert hoped that the three-and-a-half-hour show, ... work and dreams" of Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of the group Queen, ... John, David Bowie and George Michael, gathered for the tribute. ... relief in Africa set a pattern for charity rock concerts, sang "Too Late, ... Email/Member ID:.
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The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration - Wikipedia  The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration is a live double-album release in recognition of Bob Dylan's 30 years as a recording artist. Recorded on October 16, 1992, at Madison Square Garden in New York City ... Genre  Rock ... The concert was dubbed "Bobfest" by Neil Young at the beginning of his "All Along the...
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Like Yesterday: America Meets the Beatles - Entertainment - Time  Feb 7, 2014 ... 7, 1964  that the Beatles took the U.S.A. The four sprightly young Merseysiders ... before their first US concert, two days after their Ed Sullivan appearance. ... Paul McCartney, right, shows his guitar to Ed Sullivan before the Beatles' live ... The Anglo-Irish quartet had been pop sensations in Britain for the...
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A Brief History of Farm Aid - TIME  Oct 1, 2010 ... Country Singer Willie Nelson and rock singer Bob Dylan, right, perform on ... the Farm Aid benefit concert on September 22, 1985 at the University of Illinois football stadium. ... Live Aid organizer Bob Geldof later called the folk-legend's ... ticket-holders at the University of Illinois' stadium in Champaign.
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Live Aid concert - Jul 13, 1985 - HISTORY.com  On July 13, 1985, at Wembley Stadium in London, Prince Charles and Princess ... rock concert organized to raise money for the relief of famine-stricken Africans. ... Live Aid eventually raised $127 million in famine relief for African nations, and the ... Live 8 claims that an estimated 3 billion people watched 1,000 musicians...
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Weekend America: The Godfather of Soul Saves Boston  Apr 5, 2008 ... Martin Luther King, Jr. But many say Boston was spared the violence in part by a live TV broadcast of James Brown at the Boston Gardens. ... On April 5, 1968, the country was reeling from the assassination of the Rev. ... After, he went to the Boston Gardens and asked a policeman if the show was still going...
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Wembley Stadium - Olympic Way, London, UK - Modern Olympic ...  Jan 2, 2016 ... Wembley Stadium opened in 2007 and was built on the site of the ... hosting soccer matches, hosted some of the London 2012 football and the ... After playing host to the 1966 World Cup final (England's only victory in the event), Live Aid, ... away, it has already hosted highlights including six FA Cup finals,...
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Bob Geldof: Q&A - Rolling Stone  Nov 15, 1990 ... The Boomtown Rat reveals his ambivalence about Live Aid ... With little expertise but limitless determination, he organized Live Aid. ... And secondly, I remember the point in "I Don't Like Mondays" where ... As for feeling good about myself, I didn't. ... I may have been instrumental in doing it, but I did not do it.
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DUMmIES - inozmi.net  Chicago and New York City, the two centers for free jazz ............156. Music with ...... Even in the early stages, the impact of African musicians on American music began to .... On her 1926 recording of W.C. Handy's St. Louis Blues, Bessie Smith was ...... Webb discovered Fitzgerald after she won a talent contest at the Apollo.
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Bob Geldof - Wikipedia  Robert Frederick Zenon "Bob" Geldof, KBE (born 5 October 1951), is an Irish singer, songwriter, .... The song was recorded by various artists under the name of Band Aid. .... Geldof is a member of the Africa Progress Panel (APP), a group of ten ... Geldof organised ten concerts on 2 July 2005 in large cities throughout the...
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AIDS Conference - NPR  Thirteenth International AIDS Conference, July 2000. Nelson Mandela speaks at AIDS conference in Durban, South Africa ... with a leader in conflict over the cause of the epidemic -- hosted the 13th International AIDS Conference. ... live in Africa, yet this was the first time the annual conference was held on the continent.
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South Africa: Remembering AIDS 2000  Hope and ... - AfricaFiles  Remembering AIDS 2000  Hope and controversy in Durban ... While much attention is being paid to South Africa as the host of Africa's first World ... It was the first time the world's largest AIDS gathering was held in a developing country and it ... The theme of the 13th International AIDS Conference was Break the Silence.
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Past Farm Aid Concerts  Farm Aid is the longest running benefit concert series in America, inspiring millions of ... Farm Aid started as an idea at the Live Aid Concert when Bob Dylan said on ... on September 22, 1985 in Champaign, Illinois before a crowd of 80,000 people. ... Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp went with a group of family farmers to...