Opening their eyes on the morning of Saturday 13th July 1985, a range of music’s biggest stars began to feel more than the usual pre-show jitters. Today was, after all, the fateful day set to be enshrined in history, Live Aid.
The Bob Geldof and Midge Ure-organised benefit to raise funds to relieve the Ethiopian famine was going to be held concurrently at London’s Wembley Stadium and at Philadelphia’s John F. Kennedy Stadium - and broadcast live on television to over a billion global viewers.
