Bob Geldof has said Live Aid still resonates today, 40 years on from the two-venue benefit concert which brought together a stellar cast of celebrity musicians. The campaigner and rock star, 73, said ...

“It’s 12 noon in London, 7 a.m. in Philadelphia, and around the world, it’s time for Live Aid!” BBC DJ and Live Aid host Richard Skinner declared as crowds cheered. It was Saturday, July 13, 1985, and ...

Urging the public to ‘feed the world’, Band Aid created the modern association between fame and philanthropy and sparked a ...

Freddie Mercury peacocking across the stage, pumping his mic stand while 72,000 pairs of hands double clapped in unison during Queen's “Radio Ga Ga.” David Bowie, elegant in his powder blue suit, ...

A documentary celebrating 40 years of Live Aid has received widespread praise on social media. Airing on BBC Two on Sunday (6 July), the three-part series, Live Aid at 40: When Rock and Roll Took on ...

“It was our Woodstock, but better,” Nile Rodgers asserts in Live Aid: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World, referring to the all-star charity concerts broadcast around the world 40 years ago. Boomers ...

Forty years ago, music history was made when simultaneous concerts in London and Philadelphia raised money for famine relief. Beyond the dollars, Live Aid supercharged how benefit concerts could make ...

NEW YORK -- Forty years ago, the legendary Live Aid concerts aimed to do a lot of good - helping to raise over $100 million for famine relief in Ethiopia and inspiring worldwide awareness for a cause ...

This story is part of our continuing coverage in honor of Live Aid Week in Philadelphia. Check back daily for more Live Aid fun. There’s no doubt that Bob Geldof set out to do Live Aid for all the ...

Legend also has it that you were initially resistant to having Queen play. Geldof: Look, if you want a single reason why punk existed, a single word -- Queen, OK? Spare me all this (expletive), ‘Hey, ...