PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Live Aid was a dual-venue concert that was held on 13 July 1985.
The event was organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise
funds for relief of the ongoing Ethiopian famine. It was one of the
largest-scale satellite link-ups and television broadcasts of all time: an
estimated global audience of 1.9 billion, across 150 nations, watched
the live broadcast.
In October 1984, images of millions of people starving to death in
Ethiopia. Bob Geldof saw the report, and called Midge Ure from
Ultravox, and together they quickly co-wrote the song, "Do They
Know It's Christmas?" in the hope of raising money for famine relief.
The concert grew in scope, as more acts were added on both sides of
the Atlantic. As a charity fundraiser, the concert far exceeded its
goals: on a television programme in 2001, one of the organisers
stated that while initially it had been hoped that Live Aid would raise
£1 million with the help of Wembley tickets costing £25.00 each, the
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