PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- When Live Aid came to Philadelphia in 1985 it put Philadelphia on the world stage and the Action News Team jumped into Action. Here is some of our coverage from the big day - ...

On July 13, 1985, the two Live Aid concerts took place at Wembley Stadium in London and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia. The brainchild of Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, the dual concerts featured ...

July 13 marks the 40th anniversary of the iconic Live Aid concert that took place over 16 hours in Philadelphia and London. The venues were John F. Kennedy Stadium and Wembley in England. Sir Bob ...

The mullet’s not for everyone. In the new documentary “Live Aid: When Rock ‘n’ Roll Took on the World” documentary, Bono admitted that he regrets his hair choice during U2’s performance at Live Aid in ...

July 13, 2025, marks the 40 th anniversary of Live Aid. The iconic charity concert was the brainstorm of rock legends Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for famine relief in Africa. Live Aid was ...

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(CNN) — Paul McCartney hadn’t taken the stage in over five years when he sat down at his piano to sing “Let It Be” for Live Aid on July 13, 1985, in a performance that was almost totally derailed by a ...

Some of rock and metal's biggest names were at Live Aid in 1985, but there were also some very notable absences as well. Who are the big artists that missed out on Live Aid and why were they not there ...

Forty years ago, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure hosted a massive benefit concert that took place on both sides of the Atlantic, at London’s Wembley Stadium and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, to ...

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