Contents tagged with Ireland
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Live Aid
I just came across www.liveaiddvd.net, the newly released DVD of the famous Live Aid concert. In 1985, there was a huge famine in Africa. Millions were dying. Bob Geldof, the leader of the Irish punk band, the Boomtown Rats, somehow managed to put together a huge multi-artist concert that took place simultaneously in London and in Philadelphia. A billion and a half people watched it live. $140 million was raised.
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To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Nothing
William Butler Yeats