The sonic highs of the Live Aid musical are weighed down by a paper-thin book
Tiny bodies with swollen stomachs. Brittle limbs with rounded joints. Corpses everywhere: In caskets, in stretchers, in piles.
Bob Geldof, lead singer of Irish rock band the Boomtown Rats, saw that broadcast and decided to help the only way he knew how – with music. Geldof quickly spearheaded the supergroup that would become Band Aid, resulting in the mega-singleBut that wasn’t enough for Geldof, who with musician Midge Ure decided to go even further with relief efforts. Soon enough, Live Aid was born, with in-person performances in Philadelphia and London and live feeds beamed to television sets around the world.
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