That image of Freddie Mercury still lingers. In a white chest-hugging vest, the frontman of rock band Queen had energetically pranced around London’s Wembley Stadium stage, belting out the hits Radio ...

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Forty years ago this month, Bob Geldof unleashed his “global jukebox”. With the help of Midge Ure and promoter Harvey Goldsmith, he staged a concert across two venues on either side of the Atlantic, ...

On July 13, 1985, the two Live Aid concerts took place at Wembley Stadium in London and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia. The brainchild of Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, the dual concerts featured ...

“One of the most famous moments of your life and your activism, you’ve got a mullet,” Bono said in a new documentary about Live Aid Staff/Mirrorpix via Getty; VALERY HACHE/AFP via Getty Forty years ...

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 ...