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LIV E AID: THE GREATEST SHOW ON

EARTH 13 JULY 1985 ON STAGE

Andrew Wild

ISBN 978-1-78952-328-7

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Publication: 27 JUNE 2024
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ISBN: 9781789523287
Price: £16.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 210 x 148 mm
Extent: 160 pp
Illustrated: 16 colour pages
Thema: AVLP Popular Music

Comparative title: 9781789521016 Iggy And The
Stooges On Stage 1967 To 1974 (May 2021)

• The latest in Sonicbond’s occasional On Stage
series, celebrating live music
• Possibly the best-known live concert in
history, watched by an estimated 1.5 billion
• As featured in countless documentaries and of
course, the movie Bohemian Rhapsody

On Saturday, 13 July 1985, a blazing, cloudless summer
day, millions of people settled in front of the television. It
Sonic Bond podcast at http://www.sonicbondbookcast.co.uk/ was just before noon in London, 7 AM in Philadelphia, and
around the world, it was time for Live Aid.
Andrew Wild is an experienced writer, music collector and film buff This pair of huge concerts had been arranged in fewer
with many books to his name, including recent publications about than four months by singer and activist Bob Geldof of The
Queen, Pink Floyd, Dire Straits and Crosby, Stills and Nash. His Boomtown Rats: from a standing start to sixteen hours of
comprehensive study of every song recorded and performed by the music, seventy-plus artists and close to two hundred songs.
Beatles between 1957 and 1970 was published by Sonicbond in These concerts mesmerised a huge global audience and
2019. He lives in Rainow, Cheshire, UK. raised millions for the starving in Ethiopia. This revisits
every band and every song that made up the two Live Aid
concerts.
Some made their name at Live Aid — U2 in particular.
Some bands reunited — Status Quo, The Who, Black
Sabbath — and some were performing their last show
Sales: Star Book Sales LLP together. Certain performances last long in the memory —
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Orders: Combined Book Services Ltd. …
Email: orders@combook.co.uk And, behind it all, the drive of Bob Geldof: ‘the best day
Phone: 01892 837171 of my life’ he admitted. For a generation of music fans, 13
July 1985 was a landmark day. It was The Greatest Show
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without notice. 12/01/2024 On Earth. How much of it do you remember?