Live Aid

 For our final topic in social studies for term 1 we were looking at live aid. Live aid benefit concert held on Saturday the 13th of  July 1985, as well as a music-based fundraising initiative. The original event was organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for relief of the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia.

MIDGE URE -

 Midge Ure started by fulfilling an agreement to join Ultravox as the replacement for John Foxx. Once he joined the band in 1980, Ure helped make Ultravox a mainstream success; during this time he also worked as a producer, making records with Steve Harley and Modern Man. Ure also teamed up with Bob Geldof and formed Band-Aid, a special project to aid famine relief efforts in Ethiopia, in 1984. This was when the two of them wrote the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and got together a band of British musicians to record it,  the single sold millions of copies over the 1984 holiday season and this prompted Geldof to organize the benefit concert Live Aid in 1985.

BOB GELDOF -

Bob Geldof was a frontman for the late '70s to mid-'80s Irish punk rock band the Boomtown Rats. He also conceived and co-wrote Band Aid's tune "Do They Know It's Christmas?" with his friend, musician Midge Ure of Ultravox, which later became the 1984 Christmas number one single in the UK and the best-selling British pop single until that time. Band-Aid later evolved into Live Aid (1985), hence where the idea of live aid began, The concert was a unique musical event capturing the imagination and attention of the world, in the end, Geldof was knighted by the British Conservative government in 1986 for his achievement of organizing and raising money from live aid. 

DO THEY KNOW ITS CHRISTMAS - 

Bob Geldof felt inspired after watching a news report on the extreme conditions of hunger in Africa in October 1984, Geldof then proceeded to visit Ethiopia to see the conditions himself. After he returned, he and Midge Ure of the band Ultravox composed the song, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” to be released in the upcoming holiday season to raise money for those less fortunate, that he visited in Africa. He then organized the magical event "live Aid" to further raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.