Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 13, 1985, the world’s biggest music stars gathered for Live Aid, a massive benefit concert to raise money for famine ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. View of musicians including, from third left, Bono, Paul McCartney, and Freddie Mercury as they perform onstage during the Live ...

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Two scores and many benefit shows ago, Live Aid took the entire world by storm on July 13, 1985. Across two venues in two different continents, spanning over a dozen hours of performances and ...

Forty years ago, music history was made when simultaneous concerts in London and Philadelphia raised money for famine relief. Beyond the dollars, Live Aid supercharged how benefit concerts could make ...

To celebrate his graduation from Wantagh High School, Eric Biener, now of Huntington Station, decided to go on an adventure with a group of his friends in the summer of 1985. "I was in the backyard of ...

40 years ago, in the summer of 1985, music's biggest moment since Woodstock took place. Live Aid took place simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London, and JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, and raised ...

This weekend, Live Aid will be remembered in many ways. CNN debuts a four-week documentary, “Live Aid: When Rock ‘n’ Roll Took on the World,” at 9 p.m. Sunday. In England the BBC will be re-airing the ...

Programming Note: Watch CNN Original Series “Live Aid: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took On the World,” celebrating the definitive story of how two rockstars inspired the largest global music events in history.

Richards’ first qualm with Live Aid was rock music’s place within the lineup. He felt rock was better done subtly than with grand gestures. “For myself, first off, I don’t think that rock and roll ...