Tag: Live Aid

On This Day 31 Years Ago – Live Aid makes £30 million for Africa

On: By: Philip Wake
On 13th July 1985 the transatlantic Live Aid concert in aid of the starving people in Africa raised three times the expected £10 million! It started at noon in Wembley Stadium in London in bright sunshine with a fanfare for Prince Charles and Princess Diana followed by Status Quo performing Rocking All over the World. Stars were flown in by helicopter into the arena in a line-up that included David Bowie, Wham and royal favourites Dire Straits. At 5pm they linked up with JFK Stadium in Read more [...]

On This Day 41 Years Ago – Arthur Ashe is first black tennis player to win Wimbledon!

On: By: Philip Wake
On 5th July 1975 American tennis player Arthur Ashe became the first black tennis player to win the Wimbledon singles' championship. He has already won two other Grand Slam titles at the US Open (1968) and the Australian Open (1970)! In the early 1979 Arthur Ashe contracted HIV from a blood transfusion he received during his heart bypass surgery. In 1992 he announced that he had been suffering from AIDS since 1988. He began working to educate others about HIV/AIDS founding the Arthur Read more [...]

On This Day 11 Years Ago – Live 8 makes G8 double aid to poor nations!

On: By: Philip Wake
On 2nd July 2005 Bob Geldof organised the Live 8 benefit concerts to take place in the G8 states and in South Africa. They were timed to precede the G8 Conference & Summit to be held at the Gleneagles Hotel in Auchterarder, Scotland from 6th–8th July 2005 and were also timed to take place on the 20th anniversary of Live Aid. The event was intended to support the aims of the UK's Make Poverty History campaign and the Global Call for Action Against Poverty. Ten simultaneous concerts Read more [...]