Pictures That Rocked the World: Live Aid
Steve Turner, Radio Times, 13 July 1985
Fresh from co-writing the worlds fastest selling single, Bob Geldof is up to his eyes in organising the worlds biggest and most ambitious rock concert. If thing go according to plan, the Irishman will have a "global juke box" of nearly fifty major rock acts performing in London and Philadelphia, see that the transatlantic concert is beamed into a billion homes world-wide, and help raise further £10 million for Africa.
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