Created with the support of Bob Geldof and the Band Aid Charitable Trust, a new album from the cast of Live Aid musical Just For One Day will seek to evoke the spirit of the legendary 1985 charity concerts.
The announcement of Just For One Day - The Live Aid Musical (Original Cast Recording) today (May 1) comes ahead of the musical’s West End opening later this month at London's Shaftesbury Theatre. Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, the co-writers of 1984 Band Aid single Do They Know It's Christmas?, and co-creators of the Live Aid concerts in the UK and US, attended the album at Wembley Stadium, and shared their memories of the iconic July 13, 1985 concert at the original stadium.
“We created a monster,” Midge Ure stated. “And it had to happen.”
Speaking about the forthcoming album, which aims to capture "the passion, power, and urgency that made the 1985 response to the famine in Ethiopia a turning point in music history" and features new recordings of classic anthems from artists who performed at Live Aid, Queen, David Bowie, U2, Elton John, The Police, The Who, Ure's Ultravox and Geldof's Boomtown Rats, producer Jon Bath says, "As a bonafide kid of the ‘80s the chance to make an album that celebrates that extraordinary era of popular music, defined by one Saturday in July 1985 has been a ‘kid in a candy shop’ moment as a producer.
"I hope we’ve done justice to every one of these iconic songs and can’t wait for listeners to have the chance to enjoy extraordinary performances by the cast and band of Just For One Day. In Bob’s emphatic words: ‘It better not be shit.’ I firmly believe we’ve lived up to the challenge!”
