“It was our Woodstock, but better,” Nile Rodgers asserts in Live Aid: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World, referring to the all-star charity concerts broadcast around the world 40 years ago. Boomers ...

According to 'Radio Times,' Brian May helped convince Mercury to perform at Live Aid in 1985 Freddie Mercury received clear instructions from Bob Geldof ahead of Queen's Live Aid performance "Don't ...

Forty years ago, the legendary Live Aid concerts aimed to do a lot of good — helping to raise over $100 million for famine relief in Ethiopia and inspiring worldwide awareness for a cause it might ...

On July 13, 1985, a group of global superstars teamed up to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia by performing at Live Aid, a benefit concert that spanned from London to Philadelphia. For the ...

(CNN) — Paul McCartney hadn’t taken the stage in over five years when he sat down at his piano to sing “Let It Be” for Live Aid on July 13, 1985, in a performance that was almost totally derailed by a ...