On Saturday, 13 July 1985, a blazing, cloudless summer day, millions of people settled in front of the television.

 

It was just before noon in London, 7 am in Philadelphia, and around the world, it was time for Live Aid. Arranged in fewer than four months by Bob Geldof from a standing start to sixteen hours of music, seventy-plus artists and close to two hundred songs, these concerts mesmerised a huge global audience and raised millions for the starving in Ethiopia.

 

This book revisits every band and every song that made up the two era-defining Live Aid concerts.

 

All author royalties and publisher profits from the sale of this book will go to The Live Aid Trust.

 

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Andrew Wild is an experienced writer, music collector and film buff with many books to his name, including recent publications about Queen, The Allman Brothers Band, Pink Floyd, Dire Straits and Crosby, Stills and Nash. His comprehensive study of every song recorded and performed by the Beatles between 1957 and 1970 was published by Sonicbond in 2019. He lives in Rainow, Cheshire, UK.