Yesterday was the 35th anniversary of Live Aid. I thought I would reblog this piece I wrote five years ago, with 30 facts about Live Aid on the occasion of its 30th anniversary.
Even though I was only seven years old, I could sense that Live Aid was important.
Thirty years ago today, the biggest musical acts in the world performed as part of a single, massive event, unprecedented in scope. Everyone from Madonna to the Beach Boys to the Pretenders to Paul McCartney helped put on the biggest concert in the history of the planet, before or since.
The strange thing is that I realized just a few days ago that the 30th anniversary was coming up. The relative lack of fanfare struck me as odd. Rather than trying to write a comprehensive history about the event, or even an analysis of the concert itself, I thought I would string together 30 facts about Live Aid to commemorate the occasion.
1. Live Aid began as an offshoot of Band Aid, a group of mostly-UK artists who recorded a one-off charity single, “Do They…
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