A promoter of Live Aid has dismissed Ed Sheeran’s criticism of Band Aid as the stuff of “busybodies and woke people and do-gooders”. Sheeran contributed to a 2014 version of Do They Know It ...

The promoter for charity concert Live Aid has waded into the row over a new mix of Band Aid’s charity single, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”. Harvey Goldsmith – the promoter behind the ...

The musical tells the behind-the-scenes story of the Live Aid concerts in London and Philadelphia in 1985, featuring the ...

In the spirit of the unabashedly uncool band itself, I’d like to add my voice to the chorus. First, a confession: I wasn’t even alive when Queen played Live Aid. I was born three years later ...

It was described as 'The Day Rock and Roll Changed the World' but how did that unforgettable day on 13 July 1985 come about. Band Aid... It all started when Bob Geldof, who had seen Michael Buerk ...

It is a song that spawned many musical efforts to grow charitable giving. It launched Band Aid which led to Live Aid, Farm Aid and many other events. However, the song's tone of colonialism has ...

The release of the Band Aid single, and the Live Aid concert that followed eight months later, became seminal moments in celebrity fundraising and set a template that many others followed.

Live Aid promoter Harvey Goldsmith ... raised £8m for famine relief in 12 months, while the Band Aid Charitable Trust has raised almost £150m to date. The remix was released on Monday, exactly ...