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Sir Bob Geldof

Sir Bob Geldof provided the inspiration for the global TV event created by the Live Aid Concert in 1985. He talks to Alan Yentob about the backstory of a defining moment in Â鶹Éç history.

At BFI Southbank, in the context of a TV festival leading up to the centennial of the Â鶹Éç, Alan Yentob engages Bob Geldof in a wide-ranging discussion of the personal, musical, technological and political events that comprise the backstory of a defining moment in Â鶹Éç history – the global TV event created by the Live Aid Concert of 1985.

Galvanised by a Â鶹Éç News report by Michael Buerk, which focused on a humanitarian crisis of ‘biblical proportions’ as millions starved in Ethiopia, Geldof reveals new details about how luck, serendipity and ferocious willpower coalesced and uniquely brought together for a common cause many of the world’s most acclaimed musicians.

From his awestruck encounters with the likes of Quincy Jones, Willie Nelson, Bruce Springsteen and many other cultural titans, to lunch with presidents and meetings with the heads of spy agencies, Geldof reveals how a network of global satellites, from broadcasters, industry and governments, were enlisted in the cause of one of the most widely watched events in human history.

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Mon 31 Oct 2022 21:00

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Music Played

  • They Might Be Giants

    Man, It's So Loud In Here

  • The Beatles

    All You Need Is Love

  • The Boomtown Rats

    I Don't Like Mondays

  • Band Aid

    Do They Know It's Christmas?

  • They Might Be Giants

    Man, It's So Loud In Here

  • USA for Africa

    We Are The World

Credits

Role Contributor
Interviewed Guest Bob Geldof
Interviewer Alan Yentob
Executive Producer Janet Lee
Executive Producer Gabriel Jagger
Producer David Shulman
Director David Shulman

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