Over the decades, Africa has been hit by various types of disasters many times, but it has never been as bad as in 1985 in Ethiopia. It began with , which was the result of a fight between the regime’s communist Derg council and Eritrean rebels, which claimed thousands of lives, and then there was a drought, followed by unimaginable famine.
The suffering of people united artists. This is how the idea of ”Live Aid” charity concerts was born.
It was the drought that turned out to be the most tragic for this region. Agriculture collapsed, so there was nothing to produce food from, and internal clashes almost led the country to bankruptcy. Possibly supplying citizens with food from abroad was out of the question. According to collected data, at the height of the crisis, as many as 8 million Ethiopians did not have enough to eat.
The whole world watched as people died every day. that from 700,000 to even a million people died due to hunger. There were announcements about various types of charity campaigns coming from everywhere, but none of them brought the expected results. Recognized musicians finally decided to react to the dramatic situation.
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It was Bob Geldof and Midge Ure who decided to take matters into their own hands by organizing a humanitarian operation. To raise funds to buy food for Ethiopians, several “Live Aid” events were organized at the same time. The biggest events then took place in Philadelphia, Moscow, Melbourne and at the famous Wembley Stadium on the outskirts of London. It was at the last one that as many as 70,000 people gathered. listeners, including: Prince Charles and Princess Diana. The whole thing was broadcast on cameras, and according to statistics, over 1.5 billion viewers from different parts of the world sat in front of their TV sets.
Many international stars sang their greatest hits, but it was with the band that they created the biggest sensation, making the audience dance from the very first moments. Although their performance lasted only 20 minutes, it went down in the history of rock music. All thanks to the jurors of the British Channel 4 program “The World’s Greatest Gigs”, who in 2005 considered this concert the best of all time, because there was no person on stage who did not clap along with the singer to the rhythm of the hit “Radio Ga Ga”.
Source: Gazeta
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