The UK TV feed from Philadelphia was dogged by an intermittent buzzing on the sound during Bryan Adams' turn on stage and continued less frequently throughout the rest of the UK reception of the American concert and both the audio and video feed failed entirely during that performance and during Simple Minds' performance. There are thousands of people outside. I have counted 10 rows and each row has more than 100 people in and I can only take 60-70 children today, but they all need to come in." Lizie, Arthur (15 June 2020). Prince FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Purple Reign. Rowman & Littlefield. p.122. ISBN 978-1-4930-5143-4. Daniel Durchholz, Gary Graff (6 May 2010). Neil Young: Long May You Run. Voyageur Press, 2010. p.134. ISBN 9781610604536 . Retrieved 24 May 2011. Since the official DVD release of Live Aid includes only partial footage of this event, unofficial distribution sources continue to be the only source of the most complete recordings of this event. The official DVD is the only authorised video release in which proceeds go directly to famine relief, the cause that the concert was originally intended to help.

Live Aid DVD – Premiere at European Cinemas in DTS Surround Sound; Exclusive Cinema Screenings of the Landmark 1985 Concert Recording Played in 5.1 DTS Digital Surround, 12 November 2004 Later in the evening, following David Bowie's set, a video shot by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was shown to the audiences in London and Philadelphia, as well as on televisions around the world (though neither US feed showed the film), showing starving and diseased Ethiopian children set to " Drive" by The Cars. (This would also be shown at the London Live 8 concert in 2005. [63]) The rate of donations became faster in the aftermath of the video. Geldof had previously refused to allow the video to be shown, due to time constraints, and had only relented when Bowie offered to drop the song " Five Years" from his set as a trade-off. [64] Mark Beaumont (11 July 2020). "Aaaaaay-o! Aaaaaay-o! Why Live Aid was the greatest show of all". The Independent . Retrieved 10 August 2020.Piner, Mary-Louise. "Return to Stage a Personal Triumph for Teddy Pendergrass". disability-marketing.com. Archived from the original on 24 July 2008 . Retrieved 3 August 2008. BBC - The Editors: Bob, Band Aid and how the rebels bought their arms". 1 October 2014. Archived from the original on 1 October 2014 . Retrieved 13 September 2021. Davis, H. Louise. "Feeding the world a line?: Celebrity activism and ethical consumer practices from Live Aid to Product Red." Nordic Journal of English Studies 9.3 (2010): 89–118. Youngs, Ian (27 August 2004). "How Live Aid was saved for history". BBC News . Retrieved 6 March 2011.

Phil Collins, who had performed in London earlier in the day, began his solo set with the quip, "I was in England this afternoon. Funny old world, innit?" to cheers from the Philadelphia crowd. [25] Collins played drums during Eric Clapton's 17 minute set, which included well received performances of " Layla" and " White Room". [60] Fundraising [ edit ] Live Aid was a multi-venue benefit concert held on Saturday 13 July 1985, as well as a music-based fundraising initiative. The original event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise further funds for relief of the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia, a movement that started with the release of the successful charity single " Do They Know It's Christmas?" in December 1984. Billed as the "global jukebox", Live Aid was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London, attended by about 72,000 people, and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, attended by 89,484 people. [1] [2] One afternoon before the concert, Bowie was up in the office and we started looking through some videos of news footage, and we watched the CBC piece [footage from the Ethiopian famine, cut to the Cars' song " Drive"]. Everyone just stopped. Bowie said, 'You've got to put that in the show, it's the most dramatic thing I've ever seen.' That was probably one of the most evocative things in the whole show and really got the money rolling in." Minchin, Ryan, dir. (2005) "The World's Greatest Gigs". Initial Film & Television. Retrieved 21 May 2011

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Each of the two main parts of the concert ended with their particular continental all-star anti-hunger anthems, with Band Aid's " Do They Know It's Christmas?" closing the UK concert, and USA for Africa's " We Are the World" closing the US concert (and thus the entire event itself). [23]a b Edwards, Gavin (10 July 2014). "U2's 'Bad' Break: 12 Minutes at Live Aid That Made the Band's Career". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 13 July 2020. Billy Joel 1985 Interview part 2 of 2, archived from the original on 10 September 2019 , retrieved 4 October 2019 Richard Skinner—opened the show and introduced Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales

Lynch, Joe (13 July 2015). "Watch Bette Midler Introduce Madonna at Live Aid 30 Years Ago Today". Billboard . Retrieved 17 March 2022. Fred Krüger (2015). "Cultures and Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction". p. 190. Routledge Edwards, Gavin (2013). VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave. Atria Books. pp.247–248. ISBN 978-1-4516-7812-3. Live Aid DVD Launch". Brianmay.com. 8 November 2004. Archived from the original on 25 October 2019 . Retrieved 25 October 2019. I thought it was just going to be low-key and we'd all get together and have a play. But something happened between that conversation and the day – it became a Led Zeppelin reunion."Roger Waters (right) rejoined his former bandmates Pink Floyd at Live 8 in Hyde Park, London on 2 July 2005 The idea to stage a charity concert to raise more funds for Ethiopia originally came from Boy George, the lead singer of Culture Club. George and Culture Club drummer Jon Moss had taken part in the recording of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and in the same month, the band were undertaking a tour of the UK, which culminated in six nights at Wembley Arena. On the final night at Wembley, 22 December 1984, an impromptu gathering of some of the other artists from Band Aid joined Culture Club on stage at the end of the concert for an encore of "Do They Know It's Christmas?". George was so overcome by the occasion he told Geldof that they should consider organising a benefit concert. Speaking to the UK music magazine Melody Maker at the beginning of January 1985, Geldof revealed his enthusiasm for George's idea, saying, "If George is organising it, you can tell him he can call me at any time and I'll do it. It's a logical progression from the record, but the point is you don't just talk about it, you go ahead and do it!" [18] Margaret Thatcher demanded UK find ways to 'destabilise' Ethiopian regime in power during 1984 famine". The Independent . Retrieved 10 April 2019.