Live Aid
- TV Special
- 1985
- 16h
IMDb RATING
8.5/10
2.3K
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The broadcast of the biggest benefit concert in history, organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.The broadcast of the biggest benefit concert in history, organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.The broadcast of the biggest benefit concert in history, organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
- Awards
- 1 win & 3 nominations
Stuart Adamson
- Self
- (as Big Country)
Tom Bailey
- Self
- (as Thompson Twins)
Andrew Bown
- Self
- (as Status Quo)
Pete Briquette
- Self
- (as Boomtown Rats)
Charlie Burchill
- Self
- (as Simple Minds)
- Directors
- Vincent Scarza
- Kenneth Shapiro(national syndication)
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaDuring The Who's set, a red warning light at the front of the stage flashed to alert the band that their time was up. In response, Pete Townshend stepped on the warning light, broke it, and the band played for five extra minutes.
- Quotes
Bob Geldof: [to the audience and world] Please. Please. Please. Give us as much money as we know you have. Thanks.
- Alternate versionsIn its original form, the concert ran 16 hours. There were two versions of the U.S. telecast - one incarnation aired complete on MTV, another produced by ABC was in two parts, part one (the first eleven hours) airing in syndication, part two (the final three hours) airing on ABC. In any case, the DVD version is edited to ten hours, leaving out many key performances, such as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Power Station, The Hooters, The Four Tops, Rick Springfield, Bernard Watson, Santana, and Led Zeppelin. The DVD version also contains an aurally altered version of Paul McCartney's performance of "Let It Be" (due to a microphone problem in the first half of the song, McCartney had to re-record his vocals twenty years after the fact so that it could be included on the DVD).
- ConnectionsFeatured in American Bandstand's 33 1/3 Celebration (1985)
Featured review
Gem of humanity
Finally, we got the DVD! I bought it 2 days ago and watched it almost the whole Sunday. I was turning 19 that year and the event meant nothing but the brightest gem on the gleamy crown of the 80's optimism, happiness, joy, global spirit and most of all - search for ultimate humanity. There's no need to emphasize that LIVE AID (and everything else connected to it) is the singular event of the rock'n'roll history, greater then anything seen before or after. Not only for the plead of the spectacular names that joined the effort, but mainly for the cause and the relevance of it. It's probably the only time in our history when people joined hands globally to help people in need. Thank Sir Bob for the good you brought us and unforgettable moments of our lives.
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- SpookyDuke
- Nov 29, 2004
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- Музыкальный фестиваль Live Aid
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- £150,000,000
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