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the similarly named music festival held near the twentieth anniversary of Live Aid

Wembley Stadium in London, England, United KingdomJohn F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Bob GeldofMidge Ure Pop musicRock music

Live Aid was a dual-venue concert held on 13 July 1985, and an ongoing music-based fundraising initiative. The original event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for relief of the ongoing Ethiopian famine. Billed as the "global jukebox", the event was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London, England, United Kingdom (attended by 72,000 people) and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (attended by about 100,000 people).

On the same day, concerts inspired by the initiative happened in other countries, such as the Soviet Union, Japan, Austria, Australia and West Germany. It was one of the largest-scale satellite link-ups and television broadcasts of all time: an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion, across 150 nations, watched the live broadcast.

Background

The 1985 Live Aid concert was conceived as a follow-on to the successful charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" which was also the brainchild of Geldof and Ure. In October 1984, images of millions of people starving to death in Ethiopia were shown in the UK in Michael Buerk's BBC News reports on the 1984 famine. Bob Geldof saw the report, and called Midge Ure from Ultravox, and together they quickly co-wrote the song, "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in the hope of raising money for famine relief. Geldof then contacted colleagues in the music industry and persuaded them to record the single under the title 'Band Aid' for free. On 25 November 1984, the song was recorded at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, London, and was released four days later. It stayed at number-one for five weeks in the UK, was Christmas number one, and became the fastest-selling single ever in Britain and raised £8 million, rather than the £70,000 Geldof and Ure had initially expected. Geldof then set his sights on staging a huge concert to raise further funds.

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 December 1984 Culture Club were undertaking a tour of the UK, which culminated in six nights at Wembley Arena. On the final night at Wembley, Saturday 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!"

It was clear from the interview that Geldof had already had the idea to hold a dual venue concert and how the concerts should be structured: "The show should be as big as is humanly possible. There's no point just 5,000 fans turning up at Wembley; we need to have Wembley linked with Madison Square Gardens and the whole show to be televised worldwide. It would be great for Duran to play three or four numbers at Wembley and then flick to Madison Square where Springsteen would be playing. While he's on, the Wembley stage could be made ready for the next British act like the Thompsons or whoever. In that way lots of acts could be featured and the television rights, tickets and so on could raise a phenomenal amount of money. It's not an impossible idea, and certainly one worth exploiting."

Organization

Among those involved in organising Live Aid were Harvey Goldsmith, who was responsible for the Wembley Stadium concert, and Bill Graham, who put together the American leg.

The concert grew in scope, as more acts were added on both sides of the Atlantic. Tony Verna, inventor of instant replay, was able to secure John F. Kennedy Stadium through his friendship with Philadelphia Mayor Goode and was able to procure, through his connections with ABC's prime time chief, John Hamlin, a three-hour prime time slot on the ABC Network and, in addition, was able to supplement the lengthy program through meetings that resulted in the addition of an ad-hoc network within the USA, which covered 85 percent of TVs in the United States. Verna designed the needed satellite schematic and became the Executive Director as well as the Co-Executive Producer along with Hal Uplinger. Uplinger came up with the idea to produce a four-hour video edit of Live Aid to distribute to those countries without the necessary satellite equipment to rebroadcast the live feed.

Hal Uplinger and Neil Mallard worked together to assist in the expansion of the General Association of Sports Federations (GAISF), which was seeking to bring together the common ambitions of the Sports Federations, who were members – and non members – of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Following the highly successful expansion of GAISF, Hal Uplinger made contact with the Live Aid organisers and discovered that there appeared to be no plans for any TV News projection from the event. Hal immediately contacted Neil Mallard – who had been appointed the first-ever International Television News Agency Sports Editor at Visnews/Thomson-Reuters TV Corporation, in 1974 – and who therefore understood not just world-wide TV news but also the global satellite and PTT – a pre-fibre-optic system, which combined multiple copper telephone lines together to carry a TV signal – system backwards. Together, Neil and Hal joined forces with the Live Aid organising committee – which included Harvey Goldsmith and Bob Geldof. Neil Mallard also convinced Visnews – the world's largest TV News Agency – to contribute invaluable support from their satellite guru, Simon Patch.

After numerous meetings to address and sort out a raft of different and highly challenging technical requirements, so as to achieve Geldof’s vision of a global Live Aid viewing audience, Neil and Tim Mallard took charge of global co-ordination as a part of the BBC Live Aid outside-broadcast operation, based at Wembley Stadium, and held the operation together from the start of the event, and through to its conclusion.

As a charity fundraiser, the concert far exceeded its goals: on a television programme in 2001, a Live Aid organiser stated that while initially it had been hoped that Live Aid would raise £1 million with the help of Wembley tickets costing £25.00 each, the final figure was £150 million (approx. $283.6 million). Partly in recognition of the Live Aid effort, Geldof received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. For his contribution to Live Aid in the US, Uplinger won a 1989 Computerworld Smithsonian Award in the Media, Arts & Entertainment Category.

Collaborative effort

The concert began at 12:00 British Summer Time (BST) (7:00 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)) at Wembley Stadium in the United Kingdom. It continued at John F. Kennedy Stadium (JFK) in the United States, starting at 13:51 BST (8:51 EDT). The UK's Wembley performances ended at 22:00 BST (17:00 EDT). The JFK performances and whole concert in the US ended at 04:05 BST 14 July (23:05 EDT). Thus, the concert continued for just over 16 hours, but since many artists' performances were conducted simultaneously in Wembley and JFK, the total concert's length was much longer.

Mick Jagger and David Bowie intended to perform an intercontinental duet, with Bowie in London and Jagger in Philadelphia. Problems of synchronization meant the only remotely practical solution was to have one artist, likely Bowie at Wembley, mime along to prerecorded vocals broadcast as part of the live sound mix for Jagger's performance from Philadelphia. Veteran music engineer David Richards (Pink Floyd and Queen) was brought in to create footage and sound mixes Jagger and Bowie could perform to in their respective venues. The BBC would then have had to ensure those footage and sound mixes were in synch while also performing a live vision mix of the footage from both venues. The combined footage would then have had to be bounced back by satellite to the various broadcasters around the world. Due to the time lag (the signal would take several seconds to be broadcast twice across the Atlantic Ocean) Richards concluded there was no way for Jagger to hear or see Bowie's performance, meaning there could be no interaction between the artists; essentially defeating the whole point of the exercise. On top of this, both artists objected to the idea of miming at what was perceived as a historic event. Instead, Jagger and Bowie worked with Richards to create a video clip of the song they would have performed, a cover of "Dancing in the Street", which was shown on the screens of both stadiums and broadcast as part of many TV networks coverage.

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).

Concert organizers have subsequently said they were particularly keen to ensure at least one surviving member of the Beatles, ideally Paul McCartney, took part in the concert as they felt that having an 'elder statesman' from British music would give it greater legitimacy in the eyes of the political leaders whose opinions the performers were trying to shape. McCartney agreed to perform and has said it was "the management" – his children – who persuaded him to take part. In the event, he was the last performer (aside from the Band Aid finale) to take to the stage and one of the few to be beset by technical difficulties; his microphone failed for the first two minutes of his piano performance of "Let It Be", making it difficult for television viewers and impossible for those in the stadium to hear him. He later joked by saying he had thought about changing the lyrics to "There will be some feedback, let it be".

Phil Collins performed at both Wembley Stadium and JFK, utilising the Concorde to get him from London to Philadelphia. UK TV personality Noel Edmonds piloted the helicopter that took Collins to Heathrow Airport to catch his flight to NYC. (Collins later was flown by chopper to Philadelphia). Aside from his own set at both venues, he also played the drums for Eric Clapton, and played with the reuniting surviving members of Led Zeppelin at JFK. On the Concorde flight, Collins encountered actress and singer Cher, who was unaware of the concerts. Upon reaching the US, she attended the Philadelphia concert and can be seen performing as part of the concert's "We Are the World" finale.

An official book was produced by Bob Geldof in collaboration with photographer Denis O'Regan.

The broadcasts

"It's twelve noon in London, seven AM in Philadelphia, and around the world it's time for: Live Aid ....", said Richard Skinner when opening the show.

The concert is the most ambitious international satellite television venture that had ever been attempted at the time. In Europe, the feed was supplied by the BBC, whose broadcast was presented by Richard Skinner, Tommy Vance, Andy Kershaw, Mark Ellen, David Hepworth, Andy Batten-Foster, Steve Blacknell, Paul Gambaccini, Janice Long and Mike Smith and included numerous interviews and chats in between the various acts. The BBC's television sound feed was mono, as was all UK TV audio before NICAM was introduced, but the BBC Radio 1 feed was stereo and was simulcast in sync with the TV pictures. Unfortunately, in the rush to set up the transatlantic feeds, the sound feed from Philadelphia was sent to London via transatlantic cable, while the video feed was via satellite, which meant a lack of synchronisation on British television receivers. Due to the constant activities in both London and Philadelphia, the BBC producers omitted the reunion of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young from their broadcast. The BBC, however, did supply a 'clean feed' to various television channels in Europe.

ABC was largely responsible for the US broadcast (although ABC themselves only telecast the final three hours of the concert from Philadelphia, hosted by Dick Clark, with the rest shown in syndication through Orbis Communications, acting on behalf of ABC). An entirely separate and simultaneous US feed was provided for cable viewers by MTV, whose broadcast was presented in stereo, and accessible as such for those with stereo televisions. At the time, before Multichannel television sound was enacted nationwide, very few televisions reproduced stereo signals and few television stations were able to broadcast in stereo. While the telecast was run commercial-free by the BBC, both the MTV and syndicated/ABC broadcasts included advertisements and interviews. As a result, many songs were omitted due to the commercial breaks, as these songs were played during these slots.

The biggest caveat of the syndicated/ABC coverage is that the network had wanted to reserve some of the biggest acts that had played earlier in the day for certain points in the entire broadcast, particularly in the final three hours in prime time; thus, Orbis Communications had some sequences replaced by others, especially those portions of the concert that had acts from London and Philadelphia playing simultaneously. For example, while the London/Wembley finale was taking place at 22:00 (10:00 pm) London time, syndicated viewers saw segments that had been recorded earlier, so that ABC could show the UK finale during its prime-time portion. In 1995, VH1 and MuchMusic aired a re-edited ten-hour re-broadcast of the concert for its 10th Anniversary.

At one point midway through the concert, Billy Connolly announced he had just been informed that 95% of the television sets around the world were tuned to the event, though this can of course not be verified.

The Live Aid concert in London was also the first time that the BBC outside broadcast sound equipment had been used for an event of such a scale. In stark contrast to the mirrored sound systems commonly used by the rock band touring engineers, with two 40–48 channel mixing consoles at the Front of house, and another pair for monitors, the BBC sound engineers had to use multiple 12 channel desks. Some credit this as the point where the mainstream entertainment industry realised that the rock concert industry had overtaken them in technical expertise.

Wembley Stadium

The Coldstream Guards band opened with the "Royal Salute", "God Save the Queen". Status Quo started their set with "Rockin' All Over the World", also playing "Caroline" and fan favourite "Don't Waste My Time". This was to be the last appearance by the band to feature bassist and founder member Alan Lancaster, and drummer Pete Kircher who had joined the band three years earlier.

Queen also performed at the stadium, in which lead singer Freddie Mercury at times led the crowd in unison refrains. The band's 20-minute set opened with "Bohemian Rhapsody" and closed with "We Are the Champions". Queen's performance on that day has since been voted by more than 60 artists, journalists and music industry executives as the greatest live performance in the history of rock music, while Mercury's sustained note during the a cappella section came to be known as "The Note Heard Round the World". Mercury and fellow band member Brian May later sang the first song of the three-part Wembley event finale, "Is This The World We Created...?".

Bob Geldof performed with the rest of the Boomtown Rats, singing "I Don't Like Mondays". He stopped just after the line "The lesson today is how to die" to loud applause. He finished the song and left the crowd to sing the final words.

Elvis Costello sang a version of the Beatles' "All You Need Is Love", which he introduced by asking the audience to "help [him] sing this old northern English folk song".

U2's performance further established them as a pre-eminent live group – something for which they would eventually become superstars. The band played a 14-minute rendition of "Bad", during which lead vocalist Bono jumped off the stage to join the crowd and dance with a girl. The length of their performance of "Bad" limited them to playing just two songs; the third, "Pride (In the Name of Love)", had to be ditched. In July 2005, the girl with whom he danced said that he actually saved her life at the time. She was being crushed by the throngs of people pushing forwards; Bono saw this, and gestured frantically at the ushers to help her. They did not understand what he was saying, and so he jumped down to help her himself.

Another moment that garnered a huge crowd response was when David Bowie performed "Heroes" and dedicated it to his son, as well as "All our children, and the children of the world".

The UK reception of the US feed failed several times and was dogged throughout the US concert by an intermittent regular buzzing on the audio from the US (see the John F. Kennedy Stadium section for more detail) and also failed during their relay of Japan's concert, which blacked out most of Off Course's song "Endless Nights".

In addition, the transatlantic broadcast from Wembley Stadium suffered technical problems and failed during the Who's performance of their song "My Generation", immediately after Roger Daltrey sang "Why don't you all fade..." (the last word was cut off when a blown fuse caused the Wembley stage TV feed to temporarily fail). The Who played with Kenney Jones on drums and it was their first performance since they'd officially disbanded after their 1982 'farewell' tour. The Who's performance included an at times chaotic but still blistering version of "Won't Get Fooled Again". The band's performance was described as "rough but right" by Rolling Stone magazine, but they would not perform together again until the 1988 BPI Awards.

While performing "Let it Be" near the end of the show, the microphone mounted to Paul McCartney's piano failed for the first two minutes of the song, making it difficult for television viewers and the stadium audience to hear him. During this performance, the TV audience were better off, audio-wise, than the stadium audience, as the TV sound was picked up from other microphones near McCartney. The stadium audience, who could obviously not hear the electronic sound feed from these mikes, unless they had portable TV sets and radios, drowned out what little sound from Paul could be heard during this part of his performance. As a result, organiser and performer Bob Geldof, accompanied by earlier performers David Bowie, Alison Moyet, and Pete Townshend, returned to the stage to sing with him and back him up (as did the stadium audience despite not being able to hear much), by which time, Paul's microphone had been repaired.

At the conclusion of the Wembley performances, Bob Geldof was raised onto the shoulders of the Who's guitarist Pete Townshend and Paul McCartney.

John F. Kennedy Stadium

The host of the televised portion of the concert in Philadelphia was actor Jack Nicholson. The artist Joan Baez announced to the crowd, "this is your Woodstock, and it's long overdue," before leading the crowd in singing "Amazing Grace" and "We Are the World".

When Madonna got on stage, despite the ambient temperature, she proclaimed "I'm not taking shit off today!" referring to the recent release of early nude photos of her in Playboy and Penthouse magazines.

During his opening number, "American Girl", Tom Petty flipped the middle finger to somebody off stage about one minute into song. Petty stated the song was a last-minute addition when the band realised that they would be the first act to play the American side of the concert after the London finale and "since this is, after all, JFK Stadium".

When Bob Dylan broke a guitar string, while playing with the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood, Wood took off his own guitar and gave it to Dylan. Wood was left standing on stage guitarless. After shrugging to the audience, he played air guitar, even mimicking the Who's Pete Townshend by swinging his arm in wide circles, until a stagehand brought him a replacement. The performance itself was included in the DVD, including the guitar switch and Wood talking to stage hands, but much of the footage used were close-ups of either Dylan or Richards.

During their duet on "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll", Mick Jagger ripped away part of Tina Turner's dress, leaving her to finish the song in what was, effectively, a leotard.

The JFK portion included reunions of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, the original Black Sabbath with Ozzy Osbourne, and surviving members of Led Zeppelin, with Phil Collins and the Power Station (and former Chic) member Tony Thompson sharing duties on drums in place of the band's late drummer John Bonham (although they were not officially announced by their group name from the stage, but were announced as Led Zeppelin on the VH1 10th Anniversary re-broadcast in 1995).

Teddy Pendergrass made his first public appearance since his near-fatal car accident in 1982 which paralysed him. Pendergrass, along with Ashford & Simpson, performed "Reach Out and Touch".

Duran Duran performed a four-song set which was the final time the five original band members would publicly perform together until 2003. Their set saw a weak, off-key falsetto note hit by frontman Simon Le Bon during "A View to a Kill". The error was trumpeted by numerous media outlets as "The Bum Note Heard Round the World", in contrast to Mercury's "Note Heard Round the World" at Wembley. Le Bon later recalled that it was the most embarrassing moment of his career.

The UK TV feed from Philadelphia was dogged by an intermittent regular 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's performance.

Phil Collins, who had performed in England earlier in the day, began his set with the quip, "I was in England this afternoon. Funny old world, innit?", to cheers from the Philadelphia crowd.

Fundraising

Throughout the concerts, viewers were urged to donate money to the Live Aid cause. Three hundred phone lines were manned by the BBC, so that members of the public could make donations using their credit cards. The phone number and an address that viewers could send cheques to were repeated every twenty minutes.

Nearly seven hours into the concert in London, Bob Geldof enquired how much money had been raised; he was told £1.2 million. He is said to have been sorely disappointed by the amount and marched to the BBC commentary position. Pumped up further by a performance by Queen which he later called "absolutely amazing", Geldof gave an interview in which he used the word "fuck". The BBC presenter David Hepworth, conducting the interview, had attempted to provide a list of addresses to which potential donations should be sent; Geldof interrupted him in mid-flow and shouted: "Fuck the address, let's get the numbers!" It has passed into folklore that he yelled at the audience, "Give us your fucking money!" although Geldof has stated that this phrase was never uttered. Private Eye magazine made great capital out of these outbursts, emphasising Geldof's accent which meant the profanities were heard as "fock" and "focking". After the outburst, giving increased to £300 per second.

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, ABC nor MTV chose to show the film), showing starving and diseased Ethiopian children set to the song "Drive" by the Cars. (This would also be shown at the London Live 8 concert in 2005.) The rate of giving became faster in the immediate aftermath of the moving 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.

Geldof mentioned during the concert that the Republic of Ireland gave the most donations per capita, despite being in the threat of a serious economic recession at the time. The single largest donation came from the Al Maktoum, who was part of the ruling family of Dubai, who donated £1M in a phone conversation with Geldof. The next day, news reports stated that between £40 and £50 million had been raised. It is now estimated that around £150m has been raised for famine relief as a direct result of the concerts.

Notable absences

Bruce Springsteen failed to appear at the Wembley Live Aid concert despite his huge popularity in 1985, later stating that he "simply did not realise how big the whole thing was going to be". He has since expressed regret at turning down Geldof's invitation stating that he could have played a couple of acoustic songs had there been no slot available for a full band performance.

Michael Jackson also refused to take part in the whole event. According to Joan Baez, Jackson and Stevie Wonder attempted to organize a boycott of the event.

Prince did not play, but did send a pre-taped video of an acoustic version of "4 the Tears in Your Eyes", which was played during the concert. The original version appears on the We Are the World album, while the video version was released in 1993 on Prince's compilation The Hits/The B-Sides. He wrote the song "Hello" about the criticism he got for turning it down.

Billy Joel, Boy George, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Tears for Fears, Huey Lewis and the News and Paul Simon, were all included in the initial promotional material for the Philadelphia concert, but failed to appear at the show itself. Paul Simon and Huey Lewis both accepted requests to play the Philadelphia concert but later issued press statements stating they had chosen not to appear after all, citing disagreements with promoter Bill Graham. The final poster for the Philadelphia show features the acts Peter, Paul and Mary and Rod Stewart (who also featured in the Philadelphia concert programme). Peter, Paul and Mary were to have joined Bob Dylan for a rendition of "Blowing In The Wind" since they had recorded a cover version in the 1960s – but Dylan called the organizers a few days before the show saying that he would play with Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards instead (ironically, Bill Wyman apparently told Geldof before not to approach the Stones because ‘Keith doesn’t give a fuck’). Stewart was not touring at the time and was ultimately unable to put together a band in time for the concert as was Billy Joel who actually did not like the idea of performing solo in front of such a big stadium audience. Geldof claimed "Stevie Wonder eventually agreed to appear, but then he phoned me up and said, 'I am not going to be the token black on the show'".

Cliff Richard was unable to perform as he was committed to a gospel charity concert in Birmingham.

Regarding Tears for Fears's absence, band member Roland Orzabal remarked that Bob Geldof "gave us so much gip for not turning up at Live Aid. All those millions of people dying, it was our fault. I felt terrible. I tell you, I know how Hitler must have felt." The group made up for their absence by donating the proceeds from several shows of their world tour that year, and also contributed a re-recording of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" (entitled "Everybody Wants to Run the World") for Geldof's Sport Aid charity event in 1986. The single reached the Top 5 in the UK, even though the band's original version had been a hit only a year earlier.

Cat Stevens wrote a song for the Live Aid concert, which he never got to perform. According to the official book that was released after the event, he arrived at Wembley Stadium on the day without prior warning, and Geldof was unable to fit him into the schedule.

Liza Minnelli, Yoko Ono, and Cyndi Lauper were tapped to present at JFK Stadium, but backed out. Lauper did appear in a commercial for the "Live Aid Book" that aired during the concert.

A reunited Deep Purple were also due to appear from Switzerland via satellite, but pulled out after guitarist Ritchie Blackmore refused to take part in the event. Eurythmics were scheduled to play Wembley but cancelled after Annie Lennox suffered serious throat problems. Deep Purple (minus Blackmore, who left the band in 1993) appeared at Geldof's Live 8 sequel 20 years later, performing at the Toronto leg of the event while Annie Lennox appeared at the London and Edinburgh Live 8 concerts.

Frank Zappa was invited to perform, but refused because he believed that the money raised by Live Aid did not address the core problems facing the developing world and instead aided the developed world by providing ways to get drugs, calling the concert "the biggest cocaine money laundering scheme of all time".

A sighting of George Harrison arriving Wednesday night at Heathrow Airport led to widespread speculation that a reunion of the three living Beatles was in the works. He was approached by Geldof to join Paul McCartney at "Let it Be", answering "Paul didn’t ask me to sing on it (Let It Be) ten years ago, why does he want me now?" Frustrated by a bombardment of Beatles reunion questions, Geldof said: "It's just something you have to answer. I find it silly that with all these acts and the real purpose of the concert that the one thing people suddenly get caught up over is, 'Are the Beatles going to reform?' Who cares? Besides, they can't reform--or haven't people read the papers the last five years?" (a reference to the death of John Lennon).

Bill Graham is said to have turned down Foreigner and Yes because there was no free space on the bill for them.

The British rock band Marillion, riding high in the UK charts that summer with their Misplaced Childhood album and "Kayleigh" single, missed out on an invitation to perform at Wembley because their manager had deemed it not worthwhile for their lead singer Fish to participate in the "Do They Know It's Christmas?" single. Fish was quoted: "When it came to the bill for the concert we were passed over."

Participating in the "Do They Know It's Christmas?" finale at Wembley were Justin Hayward and John Lodge from the Moody Blues, Stewart Copeland from the Police and the members of Big Country. On the other hand, Lionel Richie, Harry Belafonte, Dionne Warwick, Melissa Manchester, Sheena Easton and Cher all showed up at the JFK finale performing "We Are The World".

Diana Ross, Van Halen, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, the Smiths, Talking Heads and Donna Summer also turned down requests to appear. Depeche Mode, one of the most successful English bands of the 1980s, was not invited. Alan Wilder, one of the DM members at the time said: "I doubt very much that we would have accepted the invitation, had we been asked. My personal view is that giving to 'chariddy' should be a totally private gesture, out of which no personal gain should be made. Inevitably, nearly all the artists who took part in Live Aid achieved a considerable rise in record sales and being the cynic I am, I wonder just how much of the profit gained from those sales actually ended up going to Ethiopia."

Thin Lizzy keyboard player Darren Wharton expressed his regrets about the band not being asked to perform at the event: "I think that was a tragic, tragic decision. It could've been and it should've been the turning point for Phil (Lynott). And I think that really did Phil in quite a lot, that we were never asked to play. I mean Phil, had a few problems at the time, but at the end of the day, if he would've been asked to play Live Aid, that would've been a goal for him to clean himself up to do that gig. We were all very upset of the fact that we weren't asked to do it. Because as you say, it was Geldof and Midge who Phil knew very well. I was surprised that we weren't asked to do that. That would've been the turning point, you know, definitely. I don't think Phil ever forgave Bob and Midge for that really."

Neil Peart, drummer of the Canadian rock band Rush said this about Live Aid: "Geddy was involved with the Northern Lights charity record here in Canada, although Rush weren't invited to participate in the 'Live Aid' event – mainly because if you look at the guest list, it was very much an 'in-crowd' situation. We didn't refuse to take part because of any principles. Mind you, I wouldn't have been happy being part of this scenario. Those stars should have shut up and just given over their money if they were genuine. I recall that 'Tears For Fears', who made a musical and artistic decision to pull out of the concert, were subsequently accused of killing children in Africa – what a shockingly irresponsible and stupid attitude to take towards the band. But I have nothing bad whatsoever to say about Bob Geldof; he sacrificed his health, his career, everything for something he believed in. But others around him got involved for their own reasons. Some of those involved in Northern Lights were actually quoted as saying that their managers told them to get down to the recording sessions because it would be a good career move! What a farce!"

Criticisms and controversies

Bob Dylan's performance generated controversy after he said "I hope that some of the money…maybe they can just take a little bit of it, maybe…one or two million, maybe…and use it, say, to pay the mortgages on some of the farms and, the farmers here, owe to the banks…" He is often misquoted, as on the Farm Aid website, as saying: "Wouldn't it be great if we did something for our own farmers right here in America?" In his autobiography, Is That It? (published in 1986), Geldof was extremely critical of the remark, saying "He displayed a complete lack of understanding of the issues raised by Live Aid…. Live Aid was about people losing their lives. There is a radical difference between losing your livelihood and losing your life. It did instigate Farm Aid, which was a good thing in itself, but it was a crass, stupid, and nationalistic thing to say."

Geldof was not happy about the Hooters being tacked onto the bill as the opening band in Philadelphia. He felt pressured into it by Graham and local promoter Larry Magid. Magid, promoting the concert through Electric Factory Concerts, correctly argued that the band was hugely popular in Philadelphia, their first major label album Nervous Night being released less than three months beforehand was a genuine hit record. Geldof let his feelings be known during an interview for Rolling Stone by asking: "Who the fuck are the Hooters?" In December 2004, Geldof appeared on the bill with the Hooters in Germany as their opening act.

Adam Ant subsequently criticised the event and expressed regrets about playing it, saying, "I was asked by Bob to promote this concert. They had no idea they could sell it out. Then in Bob's book he said, 'Adam was over the hill so I let him have one number.' ... Doing that show was the biggest fucking mistake in the world. Knighthoods were made, Bono got it made, and it was a waste of fucking time. It was the end of rock 'n' roll." Geldof stated in his autobiography that Miles Copeland, manager of Adam Ant and Sting, asked Geldof if he'd thought of asking Ant after Geldof contacted him to get Sting to appear: "I hadn't. I thought he was a bit passe. But then so were the Boomtown Rats, and each represented a certain piece of pop history, so I agreed. I also thought that might entice him to encourage Sting, or perhaps all three of the Police".

Andy Kershaw, one of the presenters of the BBC's coverage, criticised the event in his autobiography No Off Switch, stating, "Musically, Live Aid was to be entirely predictable and boring. As they were wheeled out – or rather bullied by Geldof into playing – it became clear that this was another parade of the same old rock aristocracy in a concert for Africa, organised by someone who, while advertising his concern for, and sympathy with, the continent didn’t see fit to celebrate or dignify the place by including on the Live Aid bill a single African performer." Kershaw also described the attitude of Geldof and his showbusiness associates as "irritating, shallow, sanctimonious and self-satisfied".

Led Zeppelin reunion

Led Zeppelin's reunion for the first time since the death of their drummer John Bonham in 1980 was poorly received due to Robert Plant's hoarse voice, Jimmy Page's struggling with an out-of-tune guitar, lack of rehearsal with the two drummers (Phil Collins and Tony Thompson) taking Bonham's place and poorly functioning monitors. Plant described the performance as "a fucking atrocity for us. … It made us look like loonies".

Page later criticised Phil Collins, who had played on Plant's first two solo albums, for his performance on drums. Page said: "Robert told me Phil Collins wanted to play with us. I told him that was all right if he knows the numbers. But at the end of the day, he didn't know anything. We played 'Whole Lotta Love', and he was just there bashing away cluelessly and grinning. I thought that was really a joke." However, Collins said "It was a disaster, really. Robert wasn't match-fit with his voice and Jimmy was out of it, dribbling. It wasn't my fault it was crap. … If I could have walked off, I would have. But then we'd all be talking about why Phil Collins walked off Live Aid – so I just stuck it out. … 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. I turned up and I was a square peg in a round hole. Robert was happy to see me, but Jimmy wasn't."

Due to their "sub-standard" performance, the band members have blocked all possible broadcasts of it since and they withheld permission for it to be included on the official DVD release of the concerts, although footage of the band's performance does exist in its entirety on YouTube. It has since been selected by Philadelphia as "one of the worst rock-and-roll reunions of all time". Victor Fiorillo wrote: "I'd like to be able to blame all of the awfulness on anaemic Phil Collins, who sat in on drums, and Page himself later fingered the Genesis drummer for screwing up the set. But Collins was just the beginning of the bad. Go ahead. Watch and remember. It really was that terrible."

Fund use in Ethiopia

In 1986 Spin published an exposé on the realities of Live Aid's actions in Ethiopia. Geldof responded by deriding both the articles and the medical relief organisation Médecins Sans Frontières who had been expelled from the country. There have been claims including by the BBC World Service that much of the funds were siphoned off by Mengistu Haile Mariam and his army (which included the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front). This coalition battled at the time against Derg. (The Band Aid Trust complained to the BBC Editorial Complaints Unit regarding the specific allegations in the BBC World Service documentary, and their complaint was upheld ) Although a professed admirer of Geldof's generosity and concern, American television commentator Bill O'Reilly has been critical of the Live Aid's oversight of the money raised for starving Ethiopian people, O'Reilly believes that charity organizations, operating in aid-receiving countries, should control donations, rather than possibly corrupt governments.

Arguing that Live Aid accomplished good ends while inadvertently causing harm at the same time, David Rieff gave a presentation of similar concerns in The Guardian at the time of Live 8. Tim Russert, in an interview on Meet the Press shortly after O'Reilly's comments, addressed these concerns to Bono. Bono responded that corruption, not disease or famine, was the greatest threat to Africa, agreeing with the belief that foreign relief organizations should decide how the money is spent. On the other hand, Bono said that it was better to spill some funds into nefarious quarters for the sake of those who needed it, than to stifle aid because of possible theft.

Performers and setlists London, Wembley Stadium

Performer(s) Performed song(s) 12:00 Coldstream Guards "God Save the Queen" 12:01 Status Quo "Rockin' All Over the World""Caroline""Don't Waste My Time" 12:19 The Style Council "You're the Best Thing""Big Boss Groove""Internationalists""Walls Come Tumbling Down!" 12:44 The Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays""Drag Me Down""Rat Trap""For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" 13:01 Adam Ant "Vive Le Rock" 13:05 Oz for Africa(from Sydney) various (depends on the broadcaster) 13:17 Ultravox "Reap the Wild Wind""Dancing with Tears in My Eyes""One Small Day""Vienna" 13:34 LoudnessOff CauseEikichi YazawaMotoharu Sano(pre-recorded at the studio) "Gotta Fight" (Loudness)"Endless Night" (Off Cause)"Take It Time" (Eikichi Yazawa)"Shame" (Motaharu Sano) 13:46 Spandau Ballet "Only When You Leave""Virgin""True" 14:07 Elvis Costello "All You Need Is Love" 14:12 Austria für Afrika(from Vienna) "Warum?" 14:22 Nik Kershaw "Wide Boy""Don Quixote""The Riddle""Wouldn't It Be Good" 14:40 B.B. King(from the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague) "When It All Comes Down""Why I Sing the Blues""Don't Answer the Door""Rock Me Baby" 14:53 Sade "Why Can't We Live Together""Your Love Is King""Is It a Crime" 15:10 YU Rock Misija(from Belgrade) "Za milion godina" 15:18 StingPhil Collins(with Branford Marsalis) "Roxanne" (Sting)"Driven to Tears" (Sting)"Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" (Phil Collins)"Message in a Bottle" (Sting)"In the Air Tonight" (Phil Collins)"Long Long Way to Go" (both)"Every Breath You Take" (both) 15:49 Howard Jones "Hide and Seek" 15:55 Autograph(from Moscow) "Golovokruzhenie""Nam nuzhen mir" 16:08 Bryan Ferry "Sensation""Boys And Girls""Slave to Love""Jealous Guy" 16:27 Band für Afrika(from Cologne) "Nackt Im Wind""Ein Jahr (Es geht voran)" 16:40 Paul Young(with Alison Moyet) "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (intro)"Come Back and Stay""That's the Way Love Is" (with Alison Moyet)"Every Time You Go Away" 17:19 U2 "Sunday Bloody Sunday""Bad" (with snippets of "Satellite of Love", "Ruby Tuesday", "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Walk on the Wild Side") 18:00 Dire Straits(with Sting) "Money for Nothing" (with Sting)"Sultans of Swing" 18:41 Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody""Radio Ga Ga""Hammer to Fall""Crazy Little Thing Called Love""We Will Rock You""We Are the Champions" 19:23 David Bowie "TVC 15""Rebel Rebel""Modern Love""Heroes" 19:59 The Who "My Generation""Pinball Wizard""Love, Reign o'er Me""Won't Get Fooled Again" 20:50 Elton John(with Kiki Dee, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley) "I'm Still Standing""Bennie and the Jets""Rocket Man""Don't Go Breaking My Heart" (with Kiki Dee)"Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" (with George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley)"Can I Get a Witness" 21:48 Freddie MercuryBrian May(from Queen) "Is This the World We Created...?" 21:51 Paul McCartney(with David Bowie, Bob Geldof, Alison Moyet and Pete Townshend) "Let It Be" 21:57 Band Aid "Do They Know It's Christmas?"

Presenters:

Richard Skinner — opened the show and introduced Charles, Prince of Wales with Diana, Princess of Wales

Tommy Vance — introduced Coldstream Guards, Status Quo, The Style Council, The Boomtown Rats, Nik Kershaw, U2, Dire Straits and The Who

Harvey Goldsmith — introduced Adam Ant

Molly Meldrum — introduced Oz for Africa

Andy Peebles — introduced Spandau Ballet, Elvis Costello, Noel Edmonds, Howard Jones, Bryan Ferry, Paul Young, Griff Rhys Jones with Mel Smith and David Bowie

Mladen Popović — introduced YU Rock Misija

Vladimir Posner — introduced Autograph

Evelyn Selbert and Ken Janz — introduced Band für Afrika

Noel Edmonds — introduced Sting with Phil Collins

Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith — introduced Queen

Billy Connolly — introduced Elton John

John Hurt — introduced Freddie Mercury with Brian May

Philadelphia, John F. Kennedy Stadium

Host: Jack Nicholson Presenters: Jack Nicholson Chevy Chase Marilyn McCoo Bette Midler Don Johnson

Performer(s) Performed song(s) Time(UTC-04:00 (EDT)) Bernard Watson "All I Really Want to Do""Interview" 8:51 Joan Baez "Amazing Grace"/"We Are the World" 9:02 The Hooters "And We Danced""All You Zombies" 9:12 Four Tops "Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)""Bernadette""It's the Same Old Song""Reach Out I'll Be There""I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)" 9:33 Billy Ocean "Caribbean Queen""Loverboy" 9:45 Black Sabbath "Children of the Grave""Iron Man""Paranoid" 9:52 Run–D.M.C. "Jam Master Jay""King Of Rock" 10:12 Rick Springfield "Love Somebody""State of the Heart""Human Touch" 10:30 REO Speedwagon "Can't Fight This Feeling""Roll With the Changes" 10:47 Crosby, Stills and Nash "Southern Cross""Teach Your Children""Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" 11:15 Judas Priest "Living After Midnight""The Green Manalishi (With The Two-Pronged Crown)""You've Got Another Thing Comin'" 11:26 Bryan Adams "Kids Wanna Rock""Summer of '69""Tears Are Not Enough""Cuts Like a Knife" 12:02 The Beach Boys "California Girls""Help Me, Rhonda""Wouldn't It Be Nice""Good Vibrations""Surfin' U.S.A." 12:40 George Thorogood and the Destroyers "Who Do You Love?" (with Bo Diddley)"The Sky Is Crying""Madison Blues" (with Albert Collins) 13:26 Simple Minds "Ghost Dancing""Don't You (Forget About Me)""Promised You a Miracle" 14:07 Pretenders "Time the Avenger""Message of Love""Stop Your Sobbing""Back on the Chain Gang""Middle of the Road" 14:41 SantanaPat Metheny "Brotherhood""Primera Invasion""Open Invitation""By the Pool"/"Right Now" 15:21 Ashford & Simpson "Solid""Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)"(with Teddy Pendergrass) 15:57 Madonna "Holiday""Into the Groove""Love Makes The World Go Round" 16:27 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers "American Girl""The Waiting""Rebels""Refugee" 17:14 Kenny Loggins "Footloose" 17:30 The Cars "You Might Think""Drive""Just What I Needed""Heartbeat City" 17:49 Neil Young "Sugar Mountain""The Needle and the Damage Done""Helpless""Nothing Is Perfect (In God's Perfect Plan)""Powderfinger" 18:07 The Power Station "Murderess""Get It On" 18:43 Thompson Twins "Hold Me Now""Revolution" (with Madonna, Steve Stevens & Nile Rodgers) 19:21 Eric Clapton "White Room""She's Waiting""Layla" 19:39 Phil Collins "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)""In the Air Tonight" 20:04 Led Zeppelin "Rock and Roll""Whole Lotta Love""Stairway to Heaven" 20:10 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young "Only Love Can Break Your Heart""Daylight Again/Find The Cost of Freedom" 20:40 Duran Duran "A View to a Kill""Union of the Snake""Save a Prayer""The Reflex" 20:45 Patti LaBelle "New Attitude""Imagine""Forever Young""Stir It Up""Over the Rainbow""Why Can't I Get It Over" 21:20 Hall & Oates "Out of Touch""Maneater""Get Ready" (with Eddie Kendricks)"Ain't Too Proud to Beg" (with David Ruffin)"The Way You Do the Things You Do""My Girl" (with Eddie Kendricks & David Ruffin) 21:50 Mick JaggerHall & OatesEddie KendricksDavid RuffinTina Turner "Lonely At the Top""Just Another Night""Miss You""State Of Shock"/"It's Only Rock 'n Roll(But I Like It)" (reprise) (with Tina Turner) 22:15 Bob DylanKeith RichardsRonnie Wood "Ballad of Hollis Brown""When the Ship Comes In""Blowin' in the Wind" 22:39 USA for Africa "We Are the World" 22:55

Live Aid recordings

When organiser Bob Geldof was persuading artists to take part in the concert, he promised them that it would be a one-off event, never to be seen again. That was the reason why the concert was never recorded in its complete original form, and only secondary television broadcasts were recorded. Following Geldof's request, ABC even erased its own broadcast tapes. However, before the syndicated/ABC footage was erased, copies of it were donated to the Smithsonian Institution and have now been presumed lost. It should be noted here that the ABC feed of the USA for Africa/"We Are The World" finale does exist in its entirety, complete with the network end credits, and can be found as a supplemental feature on the We Are The World: The Story Behind The Song DVD.

Meanwhile, MTV decided to keep recordings of its broadcast and eventually located more than 100 tapes of Live Aid in its archives, but many songs in these tapes were cut short by MTV's ad breaks and presenters (according to the BBC). The BBC also decided to erase fragments of the performance due to storage limitations, to pave the way for newer programmes. Many performances from the US were not shown on the BBC, and recordings of these performances are missing.

Official Live Aid DVD

An official four-disc DVD set of the Live Aid concerts was released on 8 November 2004. It contains 10-hour partial footage of the 16-hour length concert. The DVD was produced by Geldof's company, Woodcharm Ltd., and distributed by Warner Music Vision.

The decision to finally release it was taken by Bob Geldof nearly 20 years after the original concerts, after he found a number of pirate copies of the concert on the Internet. There has been controversy over the DVD release because a decision had been taken for a substantial number of tracks not to be included in this edited version.

The most complete footage that exists is used from the BBC source, and this was the main source of the DVD. During production on the official DVD, MTV lent Woodcharm Ltd. their B-roll and alternate camera footage where MTV provided extra footage of the Philadelphia concert (where ABC had erased the tapes from the command of Bob Geldof), and those songs that were not littered with ads were used on the official DVD.

Working from the BBC and MTV footage, several degrees of dramatic license were taken, in order to release the concert on DVD. For example, many songs on the official DVD had their soundtracks altered, mainly in sequences where there were originally microphone problems. In one of those instances, Paul McCartney had re-recorded his failed vocals for "Let It Be" in a studio the day after the concert (14 July 1985) but it was never used until the release of the DVD. Also, in the US finale, the original 'USA for Africa' studio track for "We Are the World" was overlaid in places where the microphone was absent (in fact, if you listen closely, you can hear the vocals of Kenny Rogers and James Ingram, two artists who did not even take part in Live Aid).

Judicious decisions were also made on which acts would be included and which ones would not, due to either technical difficulties in the original performances, the absence of original footage, or for music rights reasons. For example, Rick Springfield, the Four Tops, the Hooters, the Power Station, Billy Ocean, Kool and the Gang and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young were among those acts that were left off the DVD. Many of the artists' songs that were performed were also omitted. For example, Madonna performed three solo songs in the concert, but only two were included on the DVD ("Love Makes the World Go Round" was omitted). Phil Collins played "Against All Odds" and "In the Air Tonight" at both Wembley and JFK, but only the London performance of the former and the Philadelphia performance of the latter were included on the DVD. The JFK performance of "Against All Odds" was later included on Phil Collins' Finally...The First Farewell Tour DVD. Tom Petty performed four songs, and only two were included on DVD. Patti LaBelle played 6 songs but only 2 songs were included.

There were also issues with the artists themselves. Two such performers were left off at their own request: Led Zeppelin and Santana. The former defended their decision not to be included on the grounds that their performance was 'sub-standard', but to lend their support, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant pledged to donate proceeds from an upcoming DVD release of Led Zeppelin to the campaign, and John Paul Jones pledged proceeds from his American tour with Mutual Admiration Society.

In 2007, Queen released a special edition of Queen Rock Montreal on Blu-ray and DVD formats containing their 1981 concert from The Forum in Montreal, Canada, and their complete Live Aid performance, along with Freddie Mercury and Brian May performing "Is This The World We Created...?" from the UK Live Aid finale, all re-mixed in DTS 5.1 sound by Justin Shirley-Smith—this marked the first Live Aid material officially released in a high-definition/Blu-ray format. Also included is their Live Aid rehearsal, and an interview with the band, from earlier in the week.

On its release, the then British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, decided the VAT collected on sales of the Live Aid DVD would be given back to the charity, which would raise an extra £5 for every DVD sold.

Certifications Unofficial recordings

Because the Live Aid broadcast was watched by 1.5 billion people, most of the footage was recorded on home consumer video recorders all around the world, in various qualities. Many of these recordings were in mono, because in the mid-1980s most home video machines could only record mono sound, and also because the European BBC TV broadcast was in mono. The US MTV broadcast, the ABC Radio Network and BBC Radio 1 simulcasts were stereo. These recordings circulated among collectors, and in recent years, have also appeared on the Internet in file sharing networks.

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 authorized video release in which proceeds go directly to famine relief, the cause that the concert was originally intended to help.

See also

List of historic rock festivals

List of pop music festivals

1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia

Harry Chapin

Live 8, Geldof's 2005 series of concerts aimed at increasing poverty awareness

Live Earth, a 2007 series of concerts aimed at increasing awareness of Global Warming.

Farm Aid, a Live-Aid inspired relief event for American farms, instigated by Bob Dylan

Self Aid, a 1986 Live-Aid inspired 14-hour concert highlighting severe unemployment in Ireland, promoted by Jim Aiken (concert promoter)

Sport Aid, another famine relief event organised by Geldof

NetAid, concert and anti-poverty initiative using Internet

YU Rock Misija (YU Rock Mission), Yugoslav contribution to Band Aid campaign

The 1971 Concert for Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden, organised by George Harrison

Hear 'n Aid, similar joint effort from the heavy metal scene of the 1980s

Band Aid

Chef Aid, a South Park parody of the benefit concert

Wave Aid Concert held in Australia in 2005 to benefit victims of the Boxing Day Tsunami.

When Harvey Met Bob a 2010 television film dramatising the events leading up to and including the concert.

References

Live Aid: Rockin' All Over the World – BBC2 documentary, recalling the build-up to the day, and the day itself; viewed 18 June 2005.

Live Aid: World Wide Concert Book – Peter Hillmore with Introduction by Bob Geldof, ISBN 0-88101-024-3, Copyright 1985, The Unicorn Publishing House, New Jersey.

External links

Live Aid Facebook Page (Fan Page)

BBC news stories about the Live Aid DVD

Twenty-Five Years on...memories from Herald UK

How Live Aid was saved for history: BBC News

Geldof thwarts 'Live Aid pirate': BBC News

Philly.com: Live Aid Philadelphia Photo Gallery

In-depth interview between Hal Uplinger, producer of the "Live Aid Concert", the United States event, and the National Museum of American History (part of the Smithsonian Institution)

Live Aid Unofficial Behind-the-Scenes (Production) Website

Dee Finney's blog

start date July 20, 2011

today's date January 12, 2014

page 670

TOPIC: UNFAIRNESS TOWARDS GAYS AND LESBIANS -

THEY ARE PEOPLE TOO

1-10-14 - DREAM -

I evidently was working at an apartment building or

hotel, and responsible to rentals.

Some woman came to the building and I told her the room was too small for

her.

Down the hall, some medical people dropped off death certificates, so I

walked down the hall to retrieve them - the certificates were on bright yellow

srtips - not sheets of paper. The yellow strips were inside a casing of white

that was open and didnt' hide what it said. I didn't look at the names of

the two strips I picked up. I ignored the medical people and took the

strips back to another desk where another woman was working and dropped

them off on her desk. It was her responsibility to notify someone I'm

thinking.

I walked to the front of the building and saw there was a huge overpass type

bridge out front - with lines of men standing in both directions - to my left

and to my right. They weren't moving - just standing there, and they

wouldn't break ranks to let me through the line either as I had to cross over

the left side of the bridge, where there was a large professional kitchen in

operation.

I was supposed to be cooking something like a piece of chicken to make a

sandwich, at the same time, the women behind the counter were cooking for

hundreds of people. That doesn't work very well, and my piece of chicken

was done, I wanted to put it on the piece of buttered bread, and I was afraid to

ask the woman if she could give me a piece of bread and some butter to make the

sandwich. I have no idea who was supposed to eat the chicken,

because I don't eat bread - I was supposed to give it to someone.

For some reason, I recall seeing an aqua colored name like Susanford, or

Susan_____ on a strip of paper or hanging in the air or on a sign. I

don't know where or why.

I don't recall giving the piece of chicken to anyone either.

1-12-14 - DREAM - I was in a large office building

somewhere, on an upper floor.

I came across a young man, wearing what looked like

knickers with a matching suit jacket - he couldn't have been more than 12 or 13

it seemed. He was carrying something small, which I assumed could have

been a pipe bomb or something of that shape.

He was running from office to office, trying to get into

the offices and jamming his foot against the door to open it because the offices

were locked.

While he was doing that, he was saying racial slurs and

yelling that it wasn 't fair that the company only allowed certain people to

work there, and not everyone.

One of the offices was open, and I saw on the desk, a

very large binder - probably 5 or 6 inches thick, and at least 14 inches

width in both directions. It might have been a picture book of some kind.

perhaps like a memorial book that people sign in funeral parlors as a guest.

Whoever owned that book pushed it back towards the back

of the desk. I couldn't tell who it was.

Meanwhile, this young man was still running from office

to office, swearing against the company's hiring policies, and whatever he had

in his hand, when he finally found an office he could get into, he threw the

thing in his hand across the room at a desk.

Nothing happened, so if it was a pipe bomb, it didn't go

off. He then reached for the phone to call 9/11 and I yelled at him to

dial 411 which is 'Information'.

He ran out of the office because I had yelled at him and

ran down the hall.

I followed him and found myself in a large central

hallway that looked vaguely like a death memorial place made of marble that

would hold flower pots in memorium, and there was a bust (made of dark wood)

honoring a man - it was just the head, but this memorial place was square

with many places where someone could water potted plants. The bust itself

was more than a foot tall - maybe 16 to 18" tall.

I can't recall for certain if I was trying to water the

dirt in these openings that would hold a pot or not - some were deeper than

others - not really upkept well. .

As the dream ended, I could hear the music of QUEEN, and

the voice of Freddie Mercury singing "I want to break free."

***********************

1-12-2014 - MEDITATION DREAM - This dream showed me

the oval STAR that Freddie Mercury wants me to put around and under the bust of

him. SONG WITH LYRICS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgQaa_B6ATI QUEEN LYRICS

"I Want To Break Free"

I want to break free

I want to break free

I want to break free from your lies

You're so self satisfied I don't need you

I've got to break free

God knows, God knows I want to break free.

I've fallen in love

I've fallen in love for the first time

And this time I know it's for real

I've fallen in love, yeah

God knows, God knows I've fallen in love.

It's strange but it's true

I can't get over the way you love me like you do

But I have to be sure

When I walk out that door

Oh how I want to be free, baby

Oh how I want to be free,

Oh how I want to break free.

But life still goes on

I can't get used to, living without, living

without,

Living without you by my side

I don't want to live alone, hey

God knows, got to make it on my own

So baby can't you see

I've got to break free.

I've got to break free

I want to break free, yeah

I want, I want, I want, I want to break free.

INNUENDO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpys1c3jCNs&list=RDbRdo7WXTVoM

NOTE: THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS NOT AUTHORIZED

OR ENDORSED BY FREDDIE.

FREDDIE PASSED AWAY LONG BEFORE THE GAY

ORGANIZATIONS BECAME POPULAR

FREDDIE PLAYED IN THE LIVE AID CONCERT

HE WAS ONE OF THE MOST GIFTED ENTERTAINER OF ALL TIME

(IN MY HUMBLE OPINION)

BELOW ARE COMPANIES WHICH YOU MAY WISH TO BOYCOTT

BECAUSE THEY DO NOT TREAT PEOPLE WITH EQUAL RIGHTS!

0. A-1 Self Storage Company

Owned by Terry Caster, A-1 is one of California’s

largest storage rental companies, with over 40 locations in the state. The owner

and his family donated $693,000 to the Yes on 8 campaign, making then the 2nd

largest individual donors to the measure. Caster defended his donation, telling

the San Diego Tribune , “Without solid

marriage, you are going to have a sick society.” Since November, three protests

against the company have been staged by Californians Against Hate and a boycott

is ongoing. How They’re Faring: As

a family-owned, private business, there’s little way to tell how the company is

faring and there’s been no recent business news about A-1.

What You Can Do:

Activists have set-up a website

asking people to boycott the

company as well as call the customer support line to voice let them know why

they are taking their business elsewhere.

A-1 Self Storage Company

:

Terry Caster is the owner. It is a family (third generation) run company. They

have over 40 locations in

California. The ' Californians Against Hate ' blog

reports: “Mr. Caster and his family have contributed $693,000 to the Protect

Marriage campaign. That makes the Casters the 2nd largest individual

donors to Yes on Prop 8.” [

GuyDads ] AutoZone Inc.

“America’s number one retailer of auto parts and

accessories” continues to refuse domestic partner benefits for employees.

AutoZone, a Fortune 500 company, also has a history of being a hostile workforce

to women and in 2006,

was

sued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

. How They’re Faring: Depends

on who you ask. Shares of AutoZone hit a new 52-week high Friday, closing at

$146.39 per share, up $3.81 or 2.67 percent for the day, but at least one stock

forecaster says

AutoZone is ripe for shorting.

What You Can Do:

Currently,

there is no organized boycott action against AutoZone. Their customer service

number is 1-800-859-3282. AutoZone Inc :

Does not offer domestic partner benefits to their employees. The company can

discriminate against and exclude

same-sex couples in ways they can’t do to opposite-sex (married) couples. A

Fortune 500 company. [

HRC buyers guide ] Brown-Forman Corp.

A Fortune 1000 Company, Brown-Forman distributes Jack Daniels, Southern Comfort,

Finlandia Vodkas, Herradura Tequila, Sonoma-Cutrer Wines, Fetzer Wines, Korbel

Champagne, Bolla Wines, Bonterra Wines, but provides no comfort to its gay and

lesbian employees, refusing even basic domestic partner benefits.

How They’re Faring: B.F.

is currently trading at $41.70, up marginally from their mid-November 52 week

low of $38 dollars, but over the past 10 years has had an average of 8.3% growth

annually.

What You Can Do:

This

one makes the list because it’s so easy for you to make a difference. Stop

drinking the brands Brown-Forman distributes. If you’re out at a gay bar and see

a bottle of SoCo or Jack Daniels on the shelf (which you will at just about any

gay bar), let them know that they’re serving up their whiskey with a chaser of

hate and ask them to consider taking it down off the shelf—though you may want

to do this the next day while sober and not while loudly screaming at your

bartender. With so many gay-friendly liquor companies, there’s no reason to put

Brown-Forman booze in your gullet.

UPDATE: Sean

Wachsman, P.R. Manager for Southern Comfort writes:

“I noticed you

have included Brown-Forman on this list, so I wanted to provide you with

some updated information. Brown-Forman began offering domestic partner

benefits in January 2009, amended our EEO policy to include gender identity

or expression and have created a GLBT Resource Group, among other GLBT

efforts. These changes

reflect a genuine desire, on the part of our leadership, to create an

inclusive organization. We hope you will provide this current information to

your readers and revise your top 10 list by removing Brown-Forman.”

CBRL Group Inc. (Cracker Barrel restaurants)

Operates

579 full-service Cracker Barrel restaurants and gift shops in 41 states. The

business has a long history of discriminating against gays and blacks,

both as employees and dinners. It had an HR policy from

1991 until 2002 that said “It is inconsistent with our concept and values,

and is perceived to be inconsistent with those of our

customer base, to continue to employ individuals in our operating units

whose sexual preferences fail to demonstrate normal

heterosexual values.” Seventeen workers were fired because they admitted

or were assumed to be gay after the first few months

that the policy was created. [

Wikipedia ]

A spokesperson in 2008 said Cracker Barrel “welcomes all guests, and our equal

opportunity employment statement clearly states that we will not tolerate

discrimination based on sexual orientation.” However,

it does not offer diversity training, domestic partner benefits or any

support for their GLBT employees. It has a Corporate

Equality Index score of 15/100. [

HRC ] Cinemark

Regular Queerty readers know our feelings about Cinemark CEO Alan Stock, who

donated $9,999 dollars to the Yes on 8 campaign. Operating also under the name

Tinseltown, CineArts and Century Theaters, Cinemark delivers the sort of

highbrow, artistic films that appeal to gays. Despite multiple boycotts,

including one at Sundance, neither Stock nor Cinemark have pledged to change

anything, other than to send out form letters saying, “It would be inappropriate

to influence our employees’ position on personal issues outside the work

environment, especially on political, social or religious activities,” to people

who write asking for Cinemark to take a stand.

How They’re Faring: Need

proof that boycotts are effective? Look no further than Cinemark. While almost

all movie chains saw their stock tumble in the October crash,

Cinemark

has regained little of its value as competitors

like

Regal Cinemas have shown moderate improvement. Cinemark now trades at half of

what it did in September, hovering at $7.99/ share.

What You Can Do:

Continue boycotting Cinemark

. Next week, the Supreme Court

will hear arguments for and against invalidating Prop. 8 and now’s as good a

time as any to renew your commitment to eat your popcorn in a place that isn’t

run by a bigot.

Cinemark :

Alan Stock, Cinemark’s CEO, gave $9,999 to the “Yes on 8” (Protectmarriage.com)

campaign.

Cinemark has 2700 movie screens in North and South America. In northern

California they mainly operate under Century,

CinéArts and Cinedome name. [

GuyDads ] Dish Network :

Company shareholders recently (6/08) shot down a proposal that would bar the

company from discriminating

against employees based on their sexual orientation. Dish Network also

chooses not to carry LGBT cable networks Logo and

Here! [ Queers United ] Domino’s Pizza

Another case of CEOs and management using their

prominent position and hefty salary to put down gays and lesbians, Domino’s

founder Tom Monaghan is a co-founder of the Thomas More Law Center, which

recently

defended the San Diego Fire Fighters

who won a

lawsuit claiming they were sexually harassed by being forced to March in a gay

pride parade. Monaghan also financed a 2001 ballot initiative to remove sexual

orientation from Ypsilanti, Michigan’s, non-discrimination ordinance. David

Brandon, the current CEO, opposes gay marriage and brushed off questions about

Domino’s decision not to extend health benefits to spouses of gay employees when

asked about in 2006 saying when he ran for Regent of the University of Michigan,

explaining why

he doesn’t support non-discrimination by saying

,

“I don’t understand why we continually have to have

discussions about who should and who shouldn’t be included, in terms of our

nondiscrimination policy, because I think identifying specific,

special-interest groups or specific entities within the institution almost

implies that unless you’re on that list, then somehow we think you should be

treated differently than people who are on that list. It should not be about

lists.” How They’re Faring: So

so. Domino’s lost about half of its stock value in the crash, but has been

steadily gaining traction since and now trades at $6.49/ share, down from a

52-week high of $15.33.

What You Can Do:

Weirdly,

just about everyone from all sides of the political spectrum have called for a

boycott on Domino’s. Conservatives decry their decision to

open

a halal-only branch of the pizzeria in the UK

and the National

Organization of Women boycott the store

for the company’s decision last year to donate $50,000 to a pro-life group.

Domino’s Pizza :

While Domino’s does not directly contribute to anti-gay activity, founder Tom

Monaghan has contributed

heavily to initiatives and organizations that oppose the rights of GLBTs.

He is a co-founder of the Thomas More Law Center,

which is advocating in court to restrict access to domestic partner

benefits, and in 2001 financed a ballot proposal in Ypsilanti,

MI to remove sexual orientation from that city’s non-discrimination

ordinance. David Brandon, the current CEO, also opposes

gay marriage. ExxonMobil

Rated a 0 by the HRC on gay and lesbian worker’s rights, ExxonMobil is the

largest Fortune 500 company to offer no domestic partner benefits. In 1999, when

the two companies merged, they eliminated domestic-partner benefits for same-sex

partners. The company also consistently refuses to ban discrimination based on

orientation and gender identity, except where required by law.

How They’re Faring: While

the rest of the economy is tanking, ExxonMobil tankers, laden with liquid gold,

have helped the company reap record profits. On Monday, major brokerage firm

Deutsche Bank upgraded Exxon Mobil Corp. from a ‘hold’ to a ‘buy’.

What You Can Do:

Take

public transportation to work. You’ll not only be hurting big oil’s anti-gay

employment practices, you’ll be helping the environment as well.

What do you think about boycotts? We’d love to hear about your own personal

financial decisions and if you ever choose to shop elsewhere because of a

company’s policies. Let us know about it in the comments.

ExxonMobil :

Eliminated domestic-partner benefits for same-sex partners when the two

companies merged in 1999. It is the

largest Fortune 500 company that does not offer domestic-partner benefits.

It also refuses to ban discrimination based on

orientation and gender identity. [

HRC buyers guide ] Manchester Grand Resorts

Doug Manchester, owner of San Diego’s Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel, Grand del

Mar Resort and Whitetail Club and Resort in Idaho gave $125,000 to Yes on Prop 8

campaign. PlanetOut Inc., the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, and the

Human Rights Campaign all dropped any association with the hotel last year once

it was learned that Manchester was using his cash to put Prop. 8 on the ballot.

How They’re Faring: Another

privately owned company, another completely opaque ledger book.

What You Can Do:

You can join

the ongoing boycott organized

by Californians Against Hate. Salvation Army

As a church, the Salvation Army is exempt from state anti-gay discrimination

laws and the evangelical Christian organization

takes

advantage of it every chance they get

. The Salvation Army openly says that

“practicing homosexuals” aren’t welcome in their organization and they have

lobbyists in D.C. and abroad who work to prevent gay rights legislation from

being enacted. How They’re Faring: One of

the other benefits of being a church is that you don’t have to reveal your

financial documents.

What You Can Do:

Come

Christmas, don’t drop your nickels in that red kettle, no matter how much Santa

Claus tempts you to.

Urban Outfitters (with one caveat)

As we were putting this list together, we knew Urban Outfitters, whose chairman,

Richard Hayne, regularly supports anti-gay legislation and GOP candidates who

vote against gay rights, was going to be on the list. In November, the company

quickly removed t-shirts supporting gay marriage from their stores. However, one

small glimmer of change occurred last week when the store announced that the

t-shirts were back and that

100

percent of its “Marriage Equality” t-shirt sales

are going to Equality

California and National Center for Lesbian Rights, both major players in the

upcoming Supreme Court hearing in California.

How They’re Faring:Urban Outfitters has

lost

more than 50% of its stock value this year

, trading now at just over $16.

What You Can Do:

A boycott

against Urban Outfitters has been going on for years, but the recent t-shirt

decision gives gays and lesbians the opportunity to use the carrot as well as

the stick. Write to Urban Outfitters and thank

them for their decision to support gay rights organizations.

Walmart Stores Inc.

Wal-Mart does not offer domestic partner benefits except in locations required

by law. In addition, while Wal-Mart is the largest retailer of books in the

country, it refuses to carry any LGBT-related titles. In 2008, after Christian

Conservative groups threatened a boycott, Wal-Mart left the National Gay and

Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, with a

spokesperson

saying the company had decided

not

“to support or oppose highly controversial issues.”

How They’re Faring: Wal-Mart’s

growth has slowed over the past few years and like all retailers, the company

has felt the crunch. That said, stock-guru and angry man

Jim Cramer said Monday, “Wal-mart is

the only retailer I’m recommending. I think it’s terrific, I’d pull the trigger

under $46 a share.”

What You Can Do:

While the

conservative threats of boycott forced Wal-Mart to change their limited support

for gay and lesbian rights, there’s been no move by gays and lesbians to boycott

in return. Full story here: http://www.queerty.com/dont-buy-here-10-companies-that-hate-the-gays-20090224/#ixzz2qIxuqvj1

According to HRC spokesperson Paul Guequierre, any company rated below 60 fails

the test, but I decided to set the bar for failure a little higher, including

only companies with a score of 30 or lower. I also included only well-known

companies or brands that appear on the Fortune 500. So the next time you bypass

the Chick-fil-A, be sure to check with this list, lest you wind up at Dairy

Queen. I wouldn’t want anyone to think you’re a hypocrite.

Company Name CEI Score Fortune 500 Rank Advance Auto Parts 30 387 AES Corp. * 15 156 AFLAC 30 130

Allergan (Manufacturer of Botox)

15 459

AmerisourceBergen (Owner of Good Neighbor Pharmacies and

Pennsylvania's largest company by revenue)

15 24 AutoZone 15 329

Bed Bath & Beyond

30 304

Berkshire Hathaway (Parent company of Geico, Dairy Queen, Fruit

of the Loom) 15 11 Big Lots 15 436 BJ's Wholesale 15 232 Dish Network 0 200 Dole Foods 30 331 Dollar General 0 195 Dollar Tree 30 397 Exxon Mobil -25 2 Goodyear Tires 15 141 Hess 15 79

Host Hotels & Resorts (Includes Four Seasons and Marriott

hotels) 30 492 Kohl's 15 142 Liberty Mutual 0 71 Lowe's Companies Inc. 15 42

News Corporation (Wall Street Journal, Fox News, 20th Century

Fox) 15 76 Phillip Morris 0 94 RadioShack 30 481 Ross Stores 0 316 Smithfield Foods 0 163 Sunoco 15 78 SYSCO 0 55 Tyson Foods 15 87 Verizon Inc. 20 13

* AES Corp does not refer to American Education Services, the student loan

company, but to the Virginia-based power company, one of the world’s largest.

FROM: http://www.phillymag.com/news/2012/08/01/boycott-chick-fil-a-more-companies/ Live Aid was a dual-venue concert held

on 13 July 1985. The event was organised by

Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to

raise funds for relief of the ongoing

Ethiopian famine .

Billed as the "global jukebox", the event was held simultaneously at

Wembley Stadium in London ,

England, United Kingdom (attended by 72,000 people) and

John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia ,

Pennsylvania, United States (attended by about 100,000 people). On the same day,

concerts inspired by the initiative happened in other countries, such as

Australia and Germany .

It was one of the largest-scale satellite link-ups and television broadcasts of

all time: an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion, across 150 nations,

watched the live broadcast.

The 1985 Live Aid concert was conceived as a

follow-on to the successful charity single "

Do

They Know It's Christmas?

" which was also the

brainchild of Geldof and Ure. In October 1984, images of millions of people

starving to death in Ethiopia were shown in the UK in

Michael Buerk

's BBC News reports on the

1984 famine .

Bob Geldof saw the report, and called

Midge Ure from Ultravox, and together they quickly co-wrote the song, "Do

They Know It's Christmas?" in the hope of raising money for famine relief

] Geldof

then contacted colleagues in the music industry and persuaded them to record

the single under the title '

Band Aid

' for free. Performed by a collection of

British, Irish and American musicians, the song was released on 7 December

1984 and became the fastest-selling single ever in Britain and raised

£ 8

million, rather than the £70,000 Geldof had expected. Geldof then set his

sights on staging a huge concert to raise further funds.

Hal Uplinger

was the producer of the "Live

Aid Concert", the United States event. For his contributions to Live Aid,

Hal Uplinger won a 1989 Computerworld Smithsonian Award in the Media, Arts &

Entertainment Category.

The concert grew in

scope, as more acts were added on both sides of the Atlantic. As a charity

fundraiser, the concert far exceeded its goals: on a television programme in

2001, one of the organisers stated that while initially it had been hoped

that Live Aid would raise £1 million with the help of Wembley tickets

costing £25.00 each, the final figure was £150 million (approx. $283.6

million). Partly in recognition of the Live Aid effort, Geldof received an

honorary knighthood . Music promoter Harvey Goldsmith also helped in

bringing the plans of Geldof and Ure to fruition.

Collaborative effort

The concert began at 12:00 BST (7:00 EDT) at

Wembley Stadium

in the United Kingdom. It continued

at JFK Stadium

in the United States, starting at

13:51 BST (8:51 EDT). The UK's Wembley performances ended at 22:00 BST

(17:00 EDT). The JFK performances and whole concert in the US ended at 04:05

BST July 14 (23:05 EDT). (See the full schedule of the concert here.

Thus, the concert continued for just over 16 hours, but since many artists'

performances were conducted simultaneously in Wembley and JFK, the total

concert's length was much longer.

It was the original intention for

Mick Jagger and David Bowie

to perform an intercontinental duet,

with Bowie in London and Jagger in Philadelphia. Problems of synchronization

meant that the only remotely practical solution was to have one artist,

likely Bowie at Wembley, mime along to prerecorded vocals broadcast as part

of the live sound mix for Jagger's performance from Philadelphia. Veteran

music engineer David Richards (

Pink Floyd and Queen )

was brought in to create footage and sound mixes that Jagger and Bowie could

perform to in their respective venues. The BBC would then have had to ensure

that those footage and sound mixes were in synch while also performing a

live vision mix of the footage from both venues. The combined footage would

then have had to be bounced back by satellite to the various broadcasters

around the world. Due to the time lag (the signal would take several seconds

to be broadcast twice across the

Atlantic Ocean

) Richards concluded there would be no

practical way for Jagger to be able to hear or see Bowie's performance,

meaning there could be no interaction between the artists, which would

defeat the whole point of the exercise. On top of this both artists objected

to the idea of miming at what was perceived as a historic event. Instead,

Jagger and Bowie worked with Richards to create a video clip for the song

they would have performed, a cover of "

Dancing in the Street

". The video was shown on the

screens of both stadiums and also broadcast as part of many TV networks

coverage.

Each of the two main portions 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.

Concert organizers have subsequently said that

they were particularly keen to ensure that at least one surviving member of

The Beatles , ideally Paul McCartney

, took part in the concert as they

felt that having an 'elder statesman' from British music would give it

greater legitimacy in the eyes of the political leaders whose opinions the

performers were trying to shape. McCartney agreed to perform and has said

that it was "the management" – his children – that persuaded him to take

part. In the event, he was the last performer (aside from the Band Aid

finale) to take to the stage and one of the few to be beset by technical

difficulties; his microphone was turned off for the first two minutes of his

piano performance of "

Let It Be

", making it difficult for television

viewers and impossible for those in the stadium to hear him. He later

jokingly thought about changing the lyrics to "There will be some feedback,

let it be". Phil Collins

performed at both Wembley

Stadium and JFK, utilising

Concorde to

get him from London to Philadelphia. UK TV personality

Noel Edmonds

piloted the helicopter that took

Collins to Heathrow Airport

to catch his flight. Aside from his

own set at both venues, he also provided drums for

Eric Clapton

and the reunion of the surviving

members of Led Zeppelin

at JFK. On the Concorde flight,

Collins encountered actress and singer

Cher ,

who later claimed not to know anything about the Live Aid concerts. Upon

reaching the US however she did attend the Philadelphia concert and can be

seen performing as part of that concert's "

We Are the World " finale.

An official book was produced by Bob Geldof in

collaboration with photographer Denis O'Regan . The broadcasts " It's twelve

noon in London, seven AM in Philadelphia, and around the world it's time

for: Live Aid ....

" Richard Skinner opening the show.

The concert was the

most ambitious international satellite television venture that had ever been

attempted at the time. In Europe, the feed was supplied by the

BBC ,

whose broadcast was opened by

Richard Skinner , co-hosted by Andy Kershaw

, and included numerous interviews and chats in between the

various acts. The BBC's television sound feed was

mono, as was all UK TV audio before

NICAM was introduced, but the BBC Radio 1

feed was stereo and was simulcast in sync with the TV pictures.

Unfortunately, in the rush to set up the transatlantic feeds, the sound feed

from Philadelphia was sent to London via transatlantic cable, while the

video feed was bounced the much longer distance via satellite, which meant a

gross lack of synchronisation on British television receivers. (Though there

is no actual evidence of this when watching the original broadcasts, part of

The Who's performance appeared on UK screens with the sound directly from

Wembley, but with the video feed taken from the American feed after the

video footage had been passed via satellite, converted from

PAL to NTSC and

vice versa, back to the UK, leading to the video feed of this performance

being delayed behind the audio feed by around 3 seconds on the UK TV feed.

The UK video feed was switched to a direct video feed from Wembley after

around a minute of the concert returning after another technical fault

during The Who's performance). Due to the constant activities in both London

and Philadelphia, the BBC producers omitted the reunion of

Crosby,

Stills, Nash & Young

from

their broadcast. The BBC, however, did supply a

'clean feed' to various television channels in Europe. ABC was largely responsible

for the US broadcast (although ABC themselves only telecast the final three

hours of the concert from Philadelphia, hosted by

Dick Clark

, with the rest shown in syndication through

Orbis Communications

, acting on behalf of ABC). An entirely separate and

simultaneous US feed was provided for cable viewers by

MTV ,

whose broadcast was presented in stereo, and accessible as such for those

with special receivers of the time, as there were very few stereo sets in

the summer of 1985, and few television stations were able to broadcast in

stereo. While the BBC telecast was run commercial-free (as it is a public

broadcaster), both the MTV and syndicated/ABC broadcasts included

advertisements and interviews. As a result, many songs were omitted due to

the commercial breaks, as these songs were played during these slots.

The biggest caveat

of the syndicated/ABC coverage is that the network had wanted to reserve

some of the biggest acts that had played earlier in the day for certain

points in the entire broadcast, particularly in the final three hours in

prime time; thus, Orbis Communications had some sequences replaced by

others, especially those portions of the concert that had acts from London

and Philadelphia playing simultaneously. For example, while the

London/Wembley finale was taking place at 22:00 (10:00 pm) London time,

syndicated viewers saw segments that had been recorded earlier, so that ABC

could show the UK finale during its prime-time portion.

The ABC Radio Network broadcast the

American domestic feed of the concert, and later broadcast many of the acts

that were missing from the original live radio broadcast.

At one point midway

through the concert, Billy Connolly announced he had

just been informed that 95% of the television sets in the world were tuned

to the event, though this can of course not be verified. In 1995, VH1 and

MuchMusic aired

a re-edited ten-hour re-broadcast of the concert for its 10th Anniversary.

The Live Aid concert

in London was also the first time that the BBC

outside broadcast sound equipment had

been used for an event of such a scale. In stark contrast to the mirrored

sound systems commonly used by the rock band touring engineers, with two

40–48 channel mixing consoles at the

Front of house

, and another pair for monitors, the BBC sound engineers had to

use multiple 12 channel desks. Some credit this as the point where the

mainstream entertainment industry realised that the rock concert industry

had overtaken them in technical expertise.

Memorable moments at Wembley Stadium

Overhead view of Live Aid at

Wembley Stadium in London The Coldstream Guards

band opened with the

"Royal Salute", " God Save the Queen ". Status Quo

started their set with "

Rockin'

All Over the World

", also playing "Caroline" and fan favourite "Don't

Waste My Time". This

was to be the last appearance by the band to feature bassist and founder

member Alan Lancaster , and drummer Pete Kircher

who had joined the

band three years earlier.

Queen galvanised the stadium

with some of their greatest hits, in which lead singer

Freddie Mercury

at times led the

entire crowd of 72,000 in thundering unison refrains.

In

their 20 minute set the band opened with "

Bohemian Rhapsody

" and closed with "

We Are the Champions ". They

extensively rehearsed their performance at London's

Shaw Theatre . Prior

to their taking the stage, Queen's sound engineer covertly switched out the

limiters that

had been installed on the venue's sound system so the performance would be

louder than the others.

Queen's

performance on that day has since been voted by more than 60 artists,

journalists and music industry executives as the greatest live performance

in the history of rock music. Mercury

and fellow band member

Brian May

later sang the first song

of the three-part Wembley event finale, "

Is This The World We Created...?

". Bob Geldof himself performed

with the rest of the Boomtown Rats, singing "

I Don't Like Mondays

". He stopped just after the line: "The lesson today

is how to die" to loud applause with the lyrics taking on a whole other

meaning. He

finished the song and left the crowd to say the final words.

Elvis Costello appeared

singing a simple but touching version of

The Beatles ' " All

You Need Is Love

", which he introduced by asking the audience to "help

[him] sing this old northern English folk song".

U2

's performance established them as a pre-eminent live group for the

first time – something for which they would eventually become superstars.

The band played a 14-minute rendition of "

Bad ",

during which lead vocalist

Bono jumped

off the stage to join the crowd and dance with a girl. The length of their

performance of "Bad" limited them to playing just two songs; the third, "

Pride

(In the Name of Love)

", had to be ditched. In July 2005, the girl with

whom he danced revealed that he actually saved her life at the time. She was

being crushed by the throngs of people pushing forwards; Bono saw this, and

gestured frantically at the ushers to help her. They did not understand what

he was saying, and so he jumped down to help her himself.

Another moment that

garnered a huge crowd response was when

David Bowie performed " Heroes "

and dedicated it to his son, as well as "All our children, and the children

of the world".

The UK reception of

the US feed failed several times and was dogged throughout the US concert by

an intermittent regular buzzing on the audio from the US (see the JFK

Stadium section for more detail) and also failed during their relay of

Japan's concert, which blacked out most of

Off Course

's song "Endless Nights".

In addition, the transatlantic broadcast from Wembley Stadium suffered technical

problems and failed during

The Who

's performance of their song "

My Generation ", immediately after Roger Daltrey

sang "Why don't you

all fade..." (the last word was cut off when a blown fuse caused the Wembley

stage TV feed to temporarily fail).

The Who were playing with Kenney Jones

on drums, who was still

an official member of

The Who

at this time, although

this was their first performance since they'd officially disbanded after

their 1982 'farewell' tour.

The Who

's performance included an at times chaotic but still blistering

version of " Won't Get Fooled Again

", which was extremely popular with the audience in

Wembley Stadium

. The band's performance was described as "rough but right" by

Rolling Stone magazine, but they

would not perform together again until the 1988

BPI Awards . While performing " Let it Be

" near the end of the show, the microphone mounted to

Paul McCartney

's piano failed for the first two minutes of the song, making

it difficult for television viewers and the stadium audience to hear him.

During

this performance, the TV audience were better off, audio-wise, than the

stadium audience, as the TV sound was picked up from other microphones near

Paul McCartney as a disappointing, but preferable choice to no sound at all

from Paul. The stadium audience, who could obviously not hear the electronic

sound feed from these mikes, unless they had portable TV sets and radios,

completely drowned out what little sound from Paul could be heard during

this part of his performance. As a result, organiser and performer Bob

Geldof, accompanied by earlier performers

David Bowie

, Alison Moyet, and Pete Townshend, returned to the stage to sing

with him and back him up (as did the stadium audience despite not being able

to hear much), by which time, Paul's microphone had been repaired.

At the conclusion of

the Wembley performances, Bob Geldof was raised heroically

onto the shoulders of The Who's guitarist

Pete Townshend and Paul McCartney

– symbolising his great achievement in unifying the world for one day, in

the spirit of music and charity.

Memorable

moments at JFK Stadium

Stage view of Live Aid at

JFK Stadium in Philadelphia At the very

beginning of the televised portion of the Philadelphia concert,

Joan Baez announced to the

assembled crowd (and the viewing audience) that "this is your

Woodstock ,

and it's long overdue", before leading the crowd in "

Amazing Grace

" (paired with a couple of verses of "We Are the World").

When Madonna got

on stage, despite the 95°F ambient temperature, she proclaimed "I'm not

taking shit off today!" referring to the recent release of early nude photos

of her in Playboy and Penthouse magazines. During his opening number, " American Girl ", Tom Petty flipped the middle finger

to somebody off stage

about one minute into song. Petty stated the song was a last minute addition

when the band realised that they would be the first act to play the American

side of the concert after the London finale and "since this is, after all,

JFK Stadium". When Bob Dylan

broke a guitar string,

Ronnie Wood

took off his own guitar

and gave it to Dylan. Wood was left standing on stage guitarless. After

shrugging to the audience, he played

air guitar , even mimicking The Who 's Pete Townshend

by swinging his arm

in wide circles, until a stagehand brought him a replacement. Although this

moment was left off the DVD, the performance itself was included, featuring

footage focusing solely on

Keith Richards .

During their duet on

"It's Only Rock 'n' Roll",

Mick Jagger

ripped away part of

Tina Turner

's dress, leaving her to finish the song in what was, effectively,

a leotard. The JFK portion included reunions of Crosby,

Stills, Nash & Young

, the original Black Sabbath with Ozzy Osbourne

, and former members of

Led Zeppelin

, with Phil Collins and

Chic member Tony Thompson sharing duties on

drums (although they were not officially announced by their group name from

the stage, but were announced as Led Zeppelin on the

VH1 10th

Anniversary re-broadcast in 1995). Because of Robert Plant's hoarse voice,

Jimmy Page's struggling with an out-of-tune guitar, lack of rehearsal with

two drummers and poorly functioning monitors their performance was called by

them as "sub-standard" and they blocked all the possible broadcasts since

then. Teddy Pendergrass made his

first public appearance since his near-fatal car accident in 1982 which

paralysed him. Pendergrass, along with

Ashford & Simpson

, performed "Reach Out and Touch".

Also, Duran Duran performed a four-song

set. The five original band members would not perform together publicly

again until 2003. Their set is also memorable for an incredibly weak,

off-key falsetto note hit by frontman

Simon Le Bon during " A

View to a Kill

". The error was trumpeted by some media outlets as "The

Bum Note Heard Round The World", in contrast to

Freddie Mercury's powerful, sustained

note during the a cappella section of

Queen's Wembley

set, which was dubbed as "The Note Heard Round The World". Simon later

recalled that it was the most embarrassing moment of his career.

The UK TV feed from

Philadelphia was dogged by an intermittent regular 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 's performance. Phil Collins, who

had performed in England earlier in the day, began his set with the quip, "I

was in England this afternoon. Funny old world, innit?", to cheers from the

Philadelphia crowd.

Live Aid under the lights at JFK Stadium

Raising money Throughout the

concerts, viewers were urged to donate money to the Live Aid cause. Three

hundred phone lines were manned by the BBC, so that members of the public

could make donations using their credit cards. The phone number and an

address that viewers could send cheques to were repeated every twenty

minutes. Nearly seven hours

into the concert in London, Bob Geldof enquired how much money had been

raised; he was told £1.2 million. He is said to have been sorely

disappointed by the amount and marched to the BBC commentary position.

Pumped up further by a performance by Queen that he later called "absolutely

amazing", Geldof gave an infamous interview in which he used the word

'fuck'. The BBC presenter

David Hepworth

, conducting the interview, had attempted to provide a list of

addresses to which potential donations should be sent; Geldof interrupted

him in mid-flow and shouted: "Fuck the address, let's get the numbers!" It

has passed into folklore

that

he yelled at the audience, "Give us your fucking money!" although Geldof has

stated that this phrase was never uttered.

Private Eye magazine made great

capital out of these outbursts, emphasising Geldof's accent which meant the

profanities were heard as "fock" and "focking". After the outburst, giving

increased to £300 per second.

Later in the

evening, following David Bowie's set, a video shot by the

CBC (Video

Editor: Colin Dean) was shown to the audiences in London and Philadelphia,

as well as on televisions around the world (though notably neither US feed,

ABC or MTV chose

to show the film), showing starving and diseased Ethiopian children set to

the song " Drive " by The Cars

. (This would also be shown at the London Live 8 concert in 2005.)

The rate of giving became faster in the immediate aftermath of the moving

video. Ironically, 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.

As Geldof mentioned

during the concert, the

Republic of Ireland gave the most donations per capita

, despite being in the threat of a serious economic recession at

the time. The single largest donation came from the ruling family of

Dubai .

They donated £1m in a phone conversation with Geldof.

The next day, news

reports stated that between £40 and £50 million had been raised. Now, it is

estimated that around £150m has been raised for famine relief as a direct

result of the concerts.

Notable absences Bruce Springsteen declined an

invitation to appear at the Wembley Live Aid concert despite his huge

popularity in 1985, later stating that he "simply did not realise how big

the whole thing was going to be". He has since expressed regret at turning

down Geldof's invitation to appear at Live Aid stating that he could have

played a couple of acoustic songs had there been no slot available for a

full band performance. Michael Jackson and Prince also

did not play (although Prince did send a pre-taped video of an acoustic

version of "4 the Tears in Your Eyes", which was played during the concert.

The original version appears on the

We Are the World album,

while the video version was released in 1993 on Prince's compilation

The Hits/The B-Sides

.). He wrote the harsh song

Hello about

the criticism he got for turning it down

Billy Joel , Boy George , Waylon Jennings , Kris Kristofferson , Tears for Fears , and Stevie Wonder , along with Huey

Lewis and the News

and Paul Simon

, were all included in the initial promotional material for the

Philadelphia concert, but failed to appear at the show itself. Simon and

Lewis both accepted requests to play the Philadelphia concert but later

issued press statements stating they had chosen not to appear after all,

citing disagreements with promoter

Bill Graham

. The final poster for the Philadelphia show features the acts

Peter, Paul and Mary and Rod Stewart

(who also featured in

the Philadelphia concert programme). Peter, Paul and Mary were to have

joined Bob Dylan for a rendition of "Blowing In The Wind" which on the day

failed to happen (though they can be spotted taking part in the concert's

finale), while Rod Stewart was not touring at the time and was ultimately

unable to put together a band in time for the concert as was Billy Joel who

actually didn't like the idea of performing solo in front of such big

stadium audience. Geldof claimed

Stevie

Wonder eventually agreed to appear, but then he phoned me up and said, ‘‘I

am not going to be the token black on the show".

Cliff Richard was unable to

perform as he was committed to a gospel charity concert in

Birmingham . Regarding Tears for

Fears' absence, band member

Roland Orzabal remarked that Bob

Geldof "gave us so much gip for not turning up at Live Aid. All those

millions of people dying, it was our fault. I felt terrible. I tell you, I

know how Hitler must have felt." The group made up for their absence by

donating the proceeds from several shows of their world tour that year, and

also contributed a re-recording of "

Everybody

Wants to Rule the World

" (entitled " Everybody

Wants to Run the World

") for Geldof's Sport Aid

charity event in 1986.

The single reached the Top 5 in the UK, even though the band's orig

inal

version had been a hit only a year earlier.

Cat Stevens

wrote a song for

the Live Aid concert, which he never got to perform – had he done so, he

would have made his first public concert appearance since converting to

Islam and

changing his name to

Yusuf Islam

. However according to the official book that was released after

the event, he arrived at Wembley Stadium on the day without prior warning,

and Geldof was unable to fit him into the schedule.

Liza Minnelli , Yoko Ono , and Cyndi Lauper

were tapped to present

at JFK Stadium, but backed out. Lauper did appear in a commercial for the

"Live Aid Book" that aired during the concert. According to

Joan Baez

, she had "a

mysterious abdominal surgery that she never discusses."

A reunited Deep Purple

were also due to

appear from Switzerland via

satellite, but pulled out after guitarist

Ritchie Blackmore refused to take

part in the event.

Eurythmics were

scheduled to play Wembley but cancelled after

Annie Lennox suffered serious

throat problems. Deep Purple (minus Blackmore, who left the band in 1993)

appeared at Geldof's Live 8 sequel 20 years later, performing at the Toronto

leg of the event while Annie Lennox appeared at the London and Edinburgh Live

8 concerts. Frank Zappa was invited to

perform, but refused because he believed that the money raised by Live Aid

did not address the core problems facing the developing world and instead

aided the developed world by providing ways to get drugs, calling the

concert "the biggest cocaine money laundering scheme of all time."

A sighting of George Harrison arriving Wednesday

night at Heathrow Airport led to widespread speculation that a reunion of

the three living Beatles was in the works. He was approached by Geldof to

join Paul McCartney at "

Let it Be ", answering ‘Paul

didn’t ask me to sing on it (Let It Be) ten years ago, why does he want me

now?’ Frustrated

by a bombardment of Beatles reunion questions, Geldof said: "It's just

something you have to answer. I find it silly that with all these acts and

the real purpose of the concert that the one thing people suddenly get

caught up over is, 'Are the Beatles going to reform?' Who cares? Besides,

they can't reform--or haven't people read the papers the last five years?"

The Kinks offered to play,

but the organizers refused because they didn't think they were famous

enough. Bill Graham is also said to have turned down

Foreigner and Yes because

there were was no free space on the bill for them. For

the same reason Marillion didn't

play at the Wembley Stadium, although their lead singer, Fish, was able to

participate in the "Do They Know It's Christmas" finale as were Justin

Hayward and John Lodge from

The Moody Blues

, Stewart Copeland from

The Police

and the members of

Big Country

. On the other hand,

Lionel Richie , Harry Belafonte , Dionne Warwick , Sheena Easton and Cher all

showed up at the JFK finale performing "We Are The World".

Peter, Paul and Mary

were due

to sing Blowin' in the Wind with

Bob Dylan - since they had a tremendously successful version in the 1960s -

but Dylan called the organizers a few days before the show saying that he

would play with Ron Wood and Keith Richards instead. Ironically,

Bill Wyman apparently told Geldof before not to approach the Stones because

‘Keith doesn’t give a f***’.

Diana Ross , Van Halen , Frankie Goes to Hollywood , The Smiths , Talking Heads and Donna Summer also refused, for unknown reasons. Depeche Mode

, one of the most successful English bands of the 1980s, was not

invited. Alan Wilder, one of the DM members at the time said: "I doubt very

much that we would have accepted the invitation, had we been asked. My

personal view is that giving to 'chariddy' should be a totally private

gesture, out of which no personal gain should be made. Inevitably, nearly

all the artists who took part in Live Aid achieved a considerable rise in

record sales and being the cynic I am, I wonder just how much of the profit

gained from those sales actually ended up going to Ethiopia."

In one of recent

interviews Thin Lizzy keyboard player Darren

Wharton expressed his regrets about the band not being asked to perform at

the event: "I think that was a tragic, tragic decision. It could've been and

it should've been the turning point for Phil (Lynott). And I think that

really did Phil in quite a lot, that we were never asked to play. I mean

Phil, had a few problems at the time, but at the end of the day, if he

would've been asked to play Live Aid, that would've been a goal for him to

clean himself up to do that gig. We were all very upset of the fact that we

weren't asked to do it. Because as you say, it was Geldof and Midge who Phil

knew very well. I was surprised that we weren't asked to do that. That

would've been the turning point, you know, definitely. I don't think Phil

ever forgave Bob and Midge for that really."

Neil Peart, drummer

of the Canadian rock band

Rush said

about the whole Live Aid idea: "Geddy (Lee) was involved with the 'Northern

Lights' charity record here in Canada, although Rush weren't invited to

participate in the 'Live Aid' event -- mainly because if you look at the

guest list, it was very much and 'in-crowd' situation. We didn't refuse to

take part because of any principles. Mind you, I wouldn't have been happy

being part of this scenario. Those stars should have shut up and just given

over their money if they were genuine. I recall that 'Tears For Fears,' who

made a musical and artistic decision to pull out of the concert, were

subsequently accused of killing children in Africa -- what a shockingly

irresponsible and stupid attitude to take towards the band. But I have

nothing bad whatsoever to say about Bob Geldof; he sacrificed his health,

his career, everything for something he believed in. But others around him

got involved for their own reasons. Some of those involved in 'Northern

Lights' were actually quoted as saying that their managers told them to get

down to the recording sessions because it would be a good career move! What

a farce!" Criticisms and controversies Bob Dylan

's performance generated controversy

for his comment: "I hope that

some of the money…maybe they can just take a little bit of it, maybe…one

or two million, maybe…and use it, say, to pay the mortgages on some of

the farms and, the farmers here, owe to the banks…"

He is often

misquoted, as on the

Farm Aid website, as saying: "Wouldn't it be

great if we did something for our own farmers right here in America?"

In his best-selling autobiography, Is That It? (published

in 1986), Geldof was extremely critical of the remark; he states:

"He displayed a

complete lack of understanding of the issues raised by Live Aid…. Live

Aid was about people losing their lives. There is a radical difference

between losing your livelihood and losing your life. It did instigate

Farm Aid, which was a good thing in itself, but it was a crass, stupid,

and nationalistic thing to say."

Geldof was

apparently not happy about

The Hooters

being tacked onto the

bill as the opening band in Philadelphia. He felt pressured into it by

Graham and local promoter Larry Magid. Magid, promoting the concert through

Electric Factory Concerts

, argued that the band was hugely popular in

Philadelphia, despite their first major label album

Nervous Night being released less

than three months beforehand. Geldof let his feelings be known during an

interview for Rolling Stone saying: "Who the

fuck are The Hooters?" The

Hooters did get their revenge in December 2004, when Geldof appeared on the

bill with the Hooters in Germany as

their opening act. Adam Ant subsequently

criticised the event and expressed regrets about playing it, saying, "I was

asked by Sir (sic) Bob to promote this concert. They had no idea they could

sell it out. Then in Bob's book he said, 'Adam was over the hill so I let

him have one number.' ... Doing that show was the biggest f**king mistake in

the world. Knighthoods were made,

Bono got

it made, and it was a waste of f**king time. It was the end of rock 'n'

roll." Andy Kershaw

, one of the presenters of the BBC's coverage, criticised

the event in his autobiography No

Off Switch, stating, "Musically, Live Aid was to be entirely predictable

and boring. As they were wheeled out – or rather bullied by Geldof into

playing – it became clear that this was another parade of the same old rock

aristocracy in a concert for Africa, organised by someone who, while

advertising his concern for, and sympathy with, the continent didn’t see fit

to celebrate or dignify the place by including on the Live Aid bill a single

African performer." Kershaw also described the attitude of Geldof and his

showbusiness associates as "irritating, shallow, sanctimonious and

self-satisfied."

Fund use in Ethiopia

Although a professed

admirer of Geldof's generosity and concern,

Fox News Channel television host Bill O'Reilly

has been critical of

the Live Aid producer's oversight of the money raised for starving Ethiopian

people, claiming (in June 2005) that much of the funds were siphoned off by

Mengistu Haile Mariam and his army.

O'Reilly believes that charity organizations, operating in aid-receiving

countries, should control donations, rather than possibly corrupt

governments. Arguing that Live

Aid accomplished good ends while inadvertently causing harm at the same

time, David Rieff

gave a presentation of

similar concerns in The Guardian

at the time of

Live 8 . Tim Russert

, in an interview on

Meet the Press shortly after

O'Reilly's comments, addressed these concerns to

Bono .

Bono responded that corruption, not disease or famine, was the greatest

threat to Africa, agreeing with the belief that foreign relief organizations

should decide how the money is spent. On the other hand, Bono said that it

was better to spill some funds into nefarious quarters for the sake of those

who needed it, than to stifle aid because of possible theft.

Performers and setlists London Wembley Stadium Performer(s) Performed song(s) Time ( UTC±00:00 ) Coldstream Guards "Royal Salute" " God Save the Queen " 12:00 Status Quo " Rockin'

All Over the World

" "Caroline"

"Don't Waste My Time"

12:02 The Style Council

"You're the Best Thing"

"Big Boss Groove" "Internationalists"

"Walls Come Tumbling Down"

12:19 The Boomtown Rats " I Don't Like Mondays " "Drag Me Down" " Rat Trap " " For

He's a Jolly Good Fellow

" 12:44 Adam Ant "Vive Le Rock" 13:00 The Rolling Stones "Satisfaction" 13:12 Ultravox " Reap the Wild Wind " " Dancing

with Tears in My Eyes

" " One Small Day " " Vienna " 13:16 Spandau Ballet

"Only When You Leave"

"Virgin" " True " 13:47 Elvis Costello " All

You Need Is Love

" 14:07 Nik Kershaw " Wide Boy " " Don Quixote " " The Riddle " " Wouldn't It Be Good " 14:22 Sade " Why

Can't We Live Together

" " Your Love Is King "

"Is It a Crime"

14:55 Sting Phil Collins Branford Marsalis " Roxanne " " Driven to Tears " " Against

All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)

" " Message in a Bottle " " In the Air Tonight " " Long

Long Way to Go

" " Every Breath You Take " 15:18 Howard Jones " Hide and Seek " 15:50 Bryan Ferry David Gilmour (on guitar) "Sensation" "Boys And Girls" " Slave to Love " " Jealous Guy " 16:07 Paul Young " Do

They Know It's Christmas?

" (intro) " Come Back and Stay " " That's

the Way Love Is

" (with Alison Moyet ) " Every

Time You Go Away

" 16:38 U2 " Sunday Bloody Sunday " " Bad " (with snippets of " Satellite of Love ", " Ruby Tuesday ", " Sympathy for the Devil " and " Walk

on the Wild Side

") 17:20 Dire Straits " Money for Nothing " (with Sting ) " Sultans of Swing " 18:00 Queen " Bohemian Rhapsody "/" Radio Ga Ga " " Hammer to Fall " " Crazy

Little Thing Called Love

" " We Will Rock You "/" We Are the Champions " 18:44 David Bowie Thomas Dolby (on keyboards) " TVC 15 " " Rebel Rebel " " Modern Love " " Heroes " 19:22 The Who " My Generation "/" Pinball Wizard " " Love, Reign o'er Me " " Won't Get Fooled Again " 20:00 Elton John " I'm Still Standing " " Bennie and the Jets " " Rocket Man " " Don't

Go Breaking My Heart

" (with Kiki Dee ) " Don't

Let the Sun Go Down on Me

" (with George Michael ) " Can

I Get a Witness

" 20:50 Freddie Mercury Brian May " Is

This the World We Created?

" 21:48 Paul McCartney " Let It Be

" (with backing vocals for the ending by

Bob Geldof , David Bowie , Pete Townshend & Alison Moyet ) 21:51 Band Aid " Do

They Know It's Christmas?

" 21:54 Presenters: Noel Edmonds introduced

Sting, Phil Collins and Branford Marsalis

Jack Nicholson introduced U2 Mel Smith & Griff Rhys Jones introduced Queen Jack Nicholson introduced The Who Billy Connolly introduced Elton John Philadelphia JFK Stadium Performer(s) Performed song(s) Time ( UTC-5:00 ) Bernard Watson " All

I Really Want to Do

" "Interview" 8:51 Joan Baez " Amazing Grace "/" We Are the World " 9:02 The Hooters "And We Danced" " All You Zombies " 9:12 Four Tops " Shake

Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)

" " Bernadette " " It's

the Same Old Song

" " Reach

Out I'll Be There

" " I

Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)

" 9:33 Billy Ocean " Caribbean Queen " " Loverboy " 9:45 Black Sabbath " Children of the Grave " " Iron Man " " Paranoid " 9:52 Run–D.M.C. "Jam Master Jay" " King Of Rock " 10:12 Rick Springfield "Love Somebody" " State of the Heart " " Human Touch " 10:30 REO Speedwagon " Can't Fight This Feeling "

"Roll With the Changes"

10:47

Crosby, Stills and Nash

" Southern Cross " " Teach Your Children " " Suite: Judy Blue Eyes " 11:15 Judas Priest " Living After Midnight " " The

Green Manalishi (With The Two-Pronged Crown)

" " You've

Got Another Thing Comin'

" 11:26 Bryan Adams "Kids Wanna Rock" " Summer of '69 " " Tears Are Not Enough " " Cuts Like a Knife " 12:02 The Beach Boys " California Girls " " Help Me, Rhonda " " Wouldn't It Be Nice " " Good Vibrations " " Surfin' U.S.A. " 12:40

George Thorogood and the Destroyers

" Who Do You Love " (with Bo Diddley ) " The Sky Is Crying " " Madison Blues " (with Albert Collins ) 13:26 Simple Minds "Ghost Dancing" " Don't

You (Forget About Me)

"

"Promised You a Miracle"

14:07 The Pretenders "Time the Avenger" "Message of Love" "Stop Your Sobbing" " Back

on the Chain Gang

" " Middle of the Road " 14:41 Santana Pat Metheny "Brotherhood" "Primera Invasion" "Open Invitation"

"By the Pool"/"Right Now"

15:21 Ashford & Simpson " Solid " " Reach

Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)

" (with Teddy Pendergrass ) 15:57 Madonna " Holiday " " Into the Groove "

"Love Makes The World Go Round"

16:27

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

" American Girl " " The Waiting " " Rebels " " Refugee " 17:14 Kenny Loggins " Footloose " 17:30 The Cars " You Might Think " " Drive " " Just What I Needed " "Heartbeat City" 17:49 Neil Young " Sugar Mountain " " The

Needle and the Damage Done

" " Helpless "

"Nothing Is Perfect (In God's Perfect Plan)"

" Powderfinger " 18:07 The Power Station "Murderess" " Get It On " 18:43 Thompson Twins " Hold Me Now " " Revolution " (with Madonna , Steve Stevens & Nile Rogers ) 19:21 Eric Clapton Phil Collins " White Room " "She's Waiting" " Layla " 19:39 Phil Collins " Against

All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)

" " In the Air Tonight " 20:04 Jimmy Page Robert Plant John Paul Jones Tony Thompson Paul Martinez Phil Collins " Rock and Roll " " Whole Lotta Love " " Stairway To Heaven " 20:10

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

" Only

Love Can Break Your Heart

" " Daylight

Again/Find The Cost of Freedom

" 20:40 Duran Duran " A

View to a Kill

" " Union of the Snake " " Save a Prayer " " The Reflex " 20:45 Patti LaBelle " New Attitude " " Imagine " " Forever Young " " Stir It Up " " Over the Rainbow "

"Why Can't I Get It Over"

21:20 Hall & Oates " Out of Touch " " Maneater " " Get Ready " (with Eddie Kendricks ) " Ain't

Too Proud to Beg

" (with David Ruffin ) " The

Way You Do the Things You Do

" " My Girl

" (with Eddie Kendricks & David Ruffin)

21:50 Mick Jagger Hall & Oates Eddie Kendricks David Ruffin Tina Turner

"Lonely At the Top"

"Just Another Night" " Miss You " " State Of Shock "/" It's

Only Rock 'n Roll

(But I Like It)

" (reprise) (with Tina Turner ) 22:15 Bob Dylan Keith Richards Ronnie Wood " Ballad of Hollis Brown " " When

the Ship Comes In

"

Blowin' in the Wind

" 22:39 USA for Africa " We Are the World " 22:55 Presenters: Jack Nicholson introduced Joan Baez Chevy Chase introduced Black Sabbath Chevy Chase introduced REO Speedwagon Jack Nicholson introduced Bryan Adams Marilyn McCoo introduced The Beach Boys Bette Midler introduced Madonna Don Johnson introduced

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Chevy Chase introduced Kenny Loggins Jack Nicholson & Bette Midler introduced Phil Collins See also: Oz for Africa and YU Rock Misija Live Aid recordings/releases When organiser Bob

Geldof was persuading artists to take part in the concert, he promised them

that it would be a one-off event, never to be seen again. That was the

reason why the concert was never recorded in its complete original form, and

only secondary television broadcasts were recorded.

Following Geldof's

request, ABC even erased its own broadcast tapes. However, before the

syndicated/ABC footage was erased, copies of it were donated to the

Smithsonian Institution

and have now been

presumed lost. It should be noted here that the ABC feed of the USA for

Africa/"We Are The World" finale does exist in its entirety, complete with

the network end credits, and can be found as a supplemental feature on the

We

Are The World: The Story Behind The Song

DVD. Meanwhile, MTV

decided to keep recordings of its broadcast and eventually located more than

100 tapes of Live Aid in its archives, but many songs in these tapes were

cut short by MTV's ad breaks and presenters (according to the BBC). The

BBC also decided to erase fragments of the performance due to storage

limitations, to pave the way for newer programmes (this

was common practise, and lead to 'missing' episodes of many shows, including

popular programmes such as Porridge,

Dad's

Army, and Doctor Who,

the latter has had some recovered

). However, many performances from the US were not

shown on the BBC, and recordings of these performances are missing.

Official Live Aid DVD

An official

four-disc DVD set of the Live Aid concerts was released on November 8, 2004.

It contains 10-hour partial footage of the 16-hour length concert. The DVD

was produced by Geldof's company, Woodcharm Ltd., and distributed by

Warner Music Vision . The decision to

finally release it was taken by Bob Geldof nearly 20 years after the

original concerts, after he found a number of pirate copies of the concert

on the Internet .

There has been controversy over the DVD release because a decision had been

taken for a substantial number of tracks not to be included in this edited

version. The most complete

footage that exists is used from the

BBC source,

and this was the main source of the DVD. During production on the official

DVD, MTV lent

Woodcharm Ltd. their B-roll and alternate camera footage where MTV provided

extra footage of the Philadelphia concert (where ABC had erased the tapes

from the command of Bob Geldof), and those songs that were not littered with

ads were used on the official DVD.

Working from the BBC

and MTV footage, several degrees of dramatic license were taken, in order to

release the concert on DVD. For example, many songs on the official DVD had

their soundtracks altered, mainly in sequences where there were originally

microphone problems. In one of those instances, Paul McCartney had

re-recorded his failed vocals for "Let It Be" in a studio the day after the

concert (14 July 1985) but it was never used until the release of the DVD.

Also, in the US finale, the original 'USA for Africa' studio track for "We

Are the World" was overlaid in places where the microphone was absent (in

fact, if you listen closely, you can hear the vocals of

Kenny Rogers and James Ingram

, two artists who did not even take part in Live Aid).

Judicious decisions

were also made on which acts would be included and which ones would not, due

to either technical difficulties in the original performances, the absence

of original footage, or for music rights reasons. For example,

Rick Springfield , The Four Tops , The Hooters , The Power Station , Billy Ocean , Kool and The Gang and Crosby,

Stills, Nash & Young

were

among those acts that were left off the DVD. Many of the artists' songs that

were performed were also omitted. For example,

Madonna performed

three solo songs in the concert, but only two were included on the DVD

("Love Makes the World Go Round" was omitted). Phil Collins played "Against

All Odds" and "In the Air Tonight" at both Wembley and JFK, but only the

London performance of the former and the Philadelphia performance of the

latter were included on the DVD. The JFK performance of "Against All Odds"

was later included on Phil Collins'

Finally...The First Farewell Tour DVD. Tom Petty performed four songs,

and only two were included on DVD.

There were also

issues with the artists themselves. Two such performers were left off at

their own request: Led Zeppelin and Santana .

The former defended their decision not to be included on the grounds that

their performance was 'sub-standard', but to lend their support,

Jimmy Page and Robert Plant

have pledged to donate

proceeds from an upcoming DVD release of Led Zeppelin to the campaign, and

John Paul Jones has pledged

proceeds from his current American tour with

Mutual Admiration Society . In 2007, Queen released

a special edition of

Queen Rock Montreal on Blu-ray and

DVD formats containing their 1981 concert from

The Forum in Montreal, Canada,

and their complete Live Aid performance, along with Freddie Mercury and

Brian May performing "

Is

This The World We Created...?

" from the UK Live Aid finale, all re-mixed

in DTS 5.1 sound by

Justin Shirley-Smith

--this marked the first Live Aid material officially

released in a high definition/Blu-ray format. Also included is their Live

Aid rehearsal, and an interview with the band, from earlier in the week.

On its release, the

then British Chancellor of the Exchequer , Gordon Brown , decided the VAT collected

on sales of the Live Aid DVD would be given back to the charity, which would

raise an extra £5 for every DVD sold.

Unofficial recordings

Because the Live Aid

broadcast was watched by 1.5 billion people,

most

of the footage was recorded on home consumer video recorders all around the

world, in various qualities. Many of these recordings were in mono, because

in the mid-1980s most home video machines could only record mono sound, and

also because the European BBC TV

broadcast was in mono. (As

mentioned previously, the US MTV broadcast, the

ABC Radio Network and BBC Radio 1 simulcasts were

stereo). These recordings started to circulate among collectors 20 years

ago, and in recent years have also appeared on the Internet in

file sharing networks

. Since the official DVD release of Live Aid includes

only partial footage of this event, unofficial distribution sources continue

to be the one and only source of the most complete recordings of this

important historical music event.

The official DVD is

the only authorized video release in which proceeds go directly to famine

relief, the cause that the concert was originally intended to help.

See also 1980s portal

1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia

Harry Chapin Live 8

, Geldof's 2005 series of concerts aimed at increasing poverty

awareness Live Earth

, a 2007 series of concerts aimed at increasing awareness

of Global Warming . Farm Aid

, a Live-Aid inspired relief event for American

farms that was instigated by Bob Dylan at Live Aid. Sport Aid

, another famine relief event organised by Geldof

YU Rock Misija

, Yugoslav contribution to Band Aid campaign

The 1971 Concert for Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden , organised by George Harrison Hear 'n Aid

, similar joint effort from the heavy metal scene of the

1980s Band Aid Chef Aid , a South Park parody of the benefit concert Wave Aid Concert held in

Australia in 2005 to benefit victims of the

Boxing Day Tsunami . References Jump up ^ Live

Aid on Bob Geldof's official site

^ Jump up to Live

Aid 1985: A day of magic

CNN.

Retrieved May 22, 2011

^ Jump up to: Live

Aid: The show that rocked the world

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a directory of ... Barnsley Shield South Yorkshire HIV Support Group 0114 278 7916 ... [PDF] Support Groups - Palm Beach County HIV Care Council carecouncil.org/theredbook/.../IV.B._ Support _ Groups _May_2010.pdf

IV.B. SUPPORT GROUPS. COMPASS, INC. 201 N. Dixie Hwy. Lake Worth, FL

33460. Phone: (561) 533-9699. HIV/

AIDS Support Group . Positive Living.

The Seattle Foundation | Seattle Area

Support Groups & ... www.seattlefoundation.org/npos/Pages/DunsheeHouse.aspx

We provide social and peer

support groups to individuals

faced with life challenging situations such as living with

HIV ,

recovery/addiction, grief & loss, religious

... "My" Food Allergy Support Group

| —Together, we can

help keep ... foodallergy aids .com/

To support both children and parents of children affected by food

allergies, ... To start a local support group for parents of

children with life-threatening food

... [PDF] Group Work with HIV / AIDS Affected Children, Adoles... www.familytiesproject.org/Documents/ Group Curriculum.pdf

t For non-parental caregivers of

HIV -affected

children. Feeding Your Soul .

..... Facilitating a support group for

adults or children affected by

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connects patients, families, friends and caregivers for support and

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Public Health :: Contra Costa Health ...

cchealth.org › Home › Public Health › HIV/AIDS › Care & Support HIV / AIDS Program. ... Support groups are ongoing

meetings which allow people to connect with each other, mutually support

one another while they explore

... HIV / AIDS -

Kalamazoo Gay and Lesbian Resource Center

kglrc.org › Home › Resources CARES (Community Aids Resource & Education Services) HIV / AIDS prevention,

testing, counseling (as with CHS) Men's and co-ed

support groups Community Resources - AIDS Services of Austin www.asaustin.org/site/PageServer?pagename=health_community...

Below is a listing of area organizations that address

HIV and AIDS in some manner. ... They offer peer support groups ,

counseling, educational programs, social

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