On this day, a two-venue benefit concert and music-based fundraising initiative, known as ‘Live Aid’, was organised by Bob Geldof (Boomtown Rats) and Midge Ure (Ultravox) to raise funds to relieve the famine in Ethiopia. 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. An estimated audience of 1.9 billion people in 150 nations watched the live broadcast, nearly 40 percent of the world population. Bob Geldof said afterwards: “”We took an issue that was nowhere on the political agenda and, through the lingua franca of the planet – which is not English but rock ‘n’ roll – we were able to address the intellectual absurdity and the moral repulsion of people dying of want in a world of surplus.”
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