Live Aid
In the 1970s Bob Geldof was a famous singer and musician who achieved success with the group Boomtown rats. He was famous for writing the famous song "I don't like Mondays", a song written about a school shooting. Bob Geldof was one of the main organisers behind Live Aid. With this concert, he became more involved in work for non-governmental organisations in Africa and became one of the leading spokespeople on third world debt relief.
Midge Ure is a famous Scottish musician, songwriter and producer. Midge was in bands such as Ultravox, Silk, The rich kids, Thin Lizzy, Visage, Band-Aid, Band-Aid 30. He was involved in forming Live Aid, a special project to aid famine relief1 efforts in Ethiopia. Midge Ure and Bob Geldof worked together and wrote the famous song "Do they know it's Christmas?"
The awesome music show advantage hung on July 13, 1985, for starvation alleviation in Ethiopia and Sudan was known as Live Aid. Live Aid was brought about by Irish artists, musician Bob Geldof, who had recently acquired distinction as head of the Boomtown Rats. Subsequent to watching a British TV news report on the limit states of yearning in Africa in October 1984, Geldof visited Ethiopia to see the situation for himself. In his return, he and Midge Ure made the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and selected many British pop stars under the name of Band-Aid to record it on time for holiday release. The record sold a few million duplicates in 1984 with continues gave to starvation alleviation.