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Live Aid

February 2024

  • Lindsay Duncan (Dora) in Dear Octopus at the National Theatre

    The week in theatre: Dear Octopus; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Just for One Day – review

    Lindsay Duncan and co create a living period piece in Dodie Smith’s rarely performed marvel of a family portrait; Sarah Snook’s one-woman Wilde is so wrong it’s almost right; and the music carries a tame Live Aid nostalgiafest
  • Curmudgeonly … Craige Els as Bob Geldof in Just For One Day.

    Just For One Day review – Live Aid musical has soaring voices and pancake-flat characters

    Jukebox show celebrating sweary Bob Geldof’s 1985 mega-fundraiser piles homily on cliche in a production in thrall to white saviour stereotypes
  • Harvey Goldsmith

    Live Aid promoter announces global concerts to tackle climate crisis

    Harvey Goldsmith’s Earth Aid Live set to last 10 years and take place across multiple cities and continents, with lineups still to be announced

October 2023

  • Crowds gather in front of the Live Aid stage at Wembley Stadium on 13 July 1985.

    Live Aid led to the patronising ‘save Africa’ industry. We don’t need a musical about it

    Moky Makura
  • Bob Geldof.

    Bob Geldof gives nod of approval to the Old Vic’s Live Aid musical

September 2023

  • Musician Midge Ure, against a blue background

    The Q&A
    Midge Ure: ‘I’ve got my mother’s nose, and it seems to be getting bigger’

    The musician on getting a smacker from Elton John, square sausages and being the invisible man of music

March 2022

  • Simple Minds Jim Kerr

    ‘A lot of stars are freaks or introverts’: Jim Kerr on Live Aid, ex-wives and four decades of Simple Minds

    Two years after Covid cancelled his world tour, the singer is back on the road. He talks about his journey from a Glasgow tower block, life with Chrissie Hynde and Patsy Kensit, and the tough times of the early 2000s

December 2021

  • Janice Long<br>English radio broadcaster Janice Long pictured in a radio broadcasting studio in London on 15th August 1985. (Photo by United News/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)

    Janice Long obituary

    Broadcaster and DJ who was the first woman to have her own weekday show on Radio 1 and be a regular host of Top of the Pops

July 2021

  • A petrol bomb being thrown during the battle of the Bogside in Derry, 1969.

    Tony McGrath obituary

  • Observer picture editor Tony McGrath prepares a magazine presentation. circa 1992

    The Observer’s Tony McGrath: fearless picture editor who refused to flinch from brutal reality

April 2020

  • VARIOUS POP GROUPS<br>TV *Must credit Photos by Rex Features* *** Local Caption *** DR HOOK AND THE MEDICINE SHOW ON THE OLD GREY WHISTLE TEST - 1975

    Mike Appleton obituary

    Television producer who created the BBC’s Old Grey Whistle Test and supervised the UK’s Live Aid broadcast from Wembley

January 2016

  • David Jones, c.1965.

    50 David Bowie moments

    From suburban London schoolboy to a musical colossus, snapshots of David Bowie’s kaleidoscopic life

August 2015

  • Flood affected women and children gather for food outside a relief camp in Keraniganj, Bangladesh.

    Secret aid worker
    Secret aid worker: development work broke a piece of me

    After years in the field, this humanitarian worker is not desensitised to human suffering; instead, it feels personal

13 July 2015

  • Live Aid

    Live Aid – test your knowledge of the Global Jukebox

  • Bob Geldof performs at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park, London, in July 2005

    Celebrity efforts to 'save Africa' ha​​ve often only reinforced stereotypes

    Adekeye Adebajo
  • Birhan Woldu with Sir Bob Geldof

    Woman who was face of Live Aid laments price of fame 30 years on

  • (L to R) Bono of U2, Paul McCartney, and Freddie Mercury perform in the finale of the Live Aid concert at Wembley stadium in 1985.

    How Live Aid reinvented pop music

9 July 2015

  • Mandatory Credit: Photo by Broadimage/REX (4270394bm)Liam Payne, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles and One DirectionAmerican Music Awards, Arrivals, Los Angeles, America - 23 Nov 2014AMERICANMUSICAWARDSARRIVALSLOSANGELESAMERICA23NOV2014LIAMPAYNENIALLHORANLOUISTOMLINSONZAYNMALIKHARRYSTYLESONEDIRECTION1DAwardsMusicMaleNot-PerformingWith OthersPersonality26087856

    From The Beatles to Bieber, how pop stars have saved the world

    Ahead of Cop21 and the SDGs, boy band One Direction have launched a humanitarian campaign. How have other pop stars contributed to development throughout the ages?

March 2015

  • Mark Ellen

    Rock Stars Stole My Life by Mark Ellen review – misty-eyed, touchingly nerdy memoir

    From the mud and thunder of early festivals to Live Aid and Rihanna, music journalist Mark Ellen was in the right place at the right time

February 2015

  • Annabelle Neilson, Naomi Campbell and Jourdan Dunn walk the runway at the Fashion For Relief show.

    Guardian Africa network
    Naomi Campbell's Ebola fundraiser shows ‘saviour complex’ alive and well

    Auctioning designer clothes and high-end donations, the supermodel’s ‘Fashion for Ebola’ night is evidence of an outdated and patronising view of Africa, writes Adrienne Klasa
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