Live Aid
July 13, 1985
Bob Geldof staged simultaneous concerts at Wembley and Philadelphia to raise money for Ethiopian famine relief. Queen's twenty-minute set would become legend. Broadcast to a billion and a half people in over a hundred countries, Live Aid raised more than a hundred million dollars and made celebrity humanitarianism a permanent feature of the world.
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