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Key facts
- Genre
- Rock , pop
- Dates
- 13 July 1985 ; 40 years ago ( 1985-07-13 )
- Locations
- Wembley Stadium , London, England , UK John F. Kennedy Stadium , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , US
- Founders
- Bob Geldof , Midge Ure
- Attendance
- 72,000 (London), 89,484 (Philadelphia)
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Live Aid at JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, PA.jpg
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- Commons category
- Live Aid 1985
- point in time
- 1985-07-13
- inception
- 1984-00-00
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Live Aid was a two-venue benefit concert and music-based fundraising initiative held on Saturday, July 13th, 1985. The event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise further funds for relief of the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia, a movement that started with the release of the successful charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in December 1984. Billed as the "global jukebox", Live Aid was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia.
On the same day, concerts inspired by the initiative were held in other countries, such as the Soviet Union, Canada, Japan, Yugoslavia, Austria, Australia, and West Germany. It was one of the largest satellite link-ups and television broadcasts of all time. An estimated audience of 1.9 billion people in 150 nations watched the live broadcast, nearly 40 percent of the world population.