The Latest Breaking News from Live Aid

Mercury, who was lauded for his impressive vocal range, died of Aids-related illness at the age of 45 in 1991.

CNN's four-part series Live Aid: When Rock ‘n’ Roll Took on the World tells the story of how two rock stars inspired one of the largest music events in history

Queen members Roger Taylor and Brian May say Geldof told Mercury: ‘Just play the hits – you have 17 minutes’

“No one had ever had 16 hours of anything on television,” says promoter Harvey Goldsmith

A number of programmes will feature on BBC Two and BBC Radio 2 to celebrate the event.

Bowie was “a nice guy”. Elvis Costello, not so much…

The 1984 amp head and matching 4x12 cab that Clapton used for his iconic Live Aid performance with Phil Collins is being sold by London’s Denmark Street Guitars

So you need an amp to play guitar in a stadium for a watching TV audience of over a billion people? Well, something has just come in... All you need is a cobbled together Strat

Live Aid, the music event that brought the word together 39 years ago, was surely the greatest demonstration of the power music can have over hearts and minds. Live Aid was not just a concert, it was a movement that spawned a mood of global communality and left an indelible…