DURAN DURAN - THE UNION OF THE SNAKE - LIVE AID 1985 Live Aid was a multi-venue rock music concert held on July 13, 1985, which featured Duran Duran. The event was organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia. Billed as the global jukebox, the event was held simultaneously in Wembley Stadium, London (attended by 82,000 people) and the JFK Stadium, Philadelphia (attended by about 99,000 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 400 million viewers, across 60 countries, watched the live broadcast. The concert was conceived as a follow-on to another Geldof/Ure project, the successful charity single Do They Know Its Christmas?, performed by a collection of British and Irish music acts billed as Band Aid and released the previous winter. 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 was also instrumental in bringing the plans of Geldof and Ure to fruition. duranduran.wikia/wiki/Live_Aid
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