• Bob Geldof: How he convinced Queen’s Freddie Mercury to do Live Aid

  • Feb 10 2025
  • Length: 48 mins
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Bob Geldof: How he convinced Queen’s Freddie Mercury to do Live Aid

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  • Bob Geldof is a musician, activist and one of the organizers of Live Aid, the massive 1985 benefit concert that raised millions for famine relief in Ethiopia. Some of the biggest artists and bands of all time came together for that concert — but how did Bob convince them all to give up their time for free on the same day? Ahead of the Toronto opening of “Just For One Day,” a new jukebox musical about Live Aid, Bob sits down with Tom Power to share some of the stories from behind the scenes of Live Aid, including how he got Queen to participate and why David Bowie insisted on the use of some CBC footage as the one condition of him playing.
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