What Year Did Live Aid Happen

Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia on July 13 1985 was the most ambitious rock concert of.

What year did live aid happen. I was born three years later in 1988 three years before Mercury died of bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS. Organized by Boomtown Rats front man Bob Geldof and Ultravox vocalist Midge Ure it drew an estimated 15 billion television viewers and raised millions of dollars for famine relief in Ethiopia. In this the rhetoric of Live Aid in 1985 was uncannily like the rhetoric of the Asian tsunami in 2004.

While various sub-groups of the virus acquired human infectivity at different times the global pandemic had its origins in the emergence of one specific strain HIV-1 subgroup M in Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo in the 1920s. LIVE AID 1985. Today 35 years ago Live Aid happened featuring two huge open-air concerts in London and Philadelphia and global hunger was wiped out overnight making the world an almost utopia.

Live Aid took place on Saturday 13 January 1985. Download and share this timeline PDF 995 KB. Photo credit should read.

AIDS is caused by a human immunodeficiency virus which originated in non-human primates in Central and West Africa. In 1984 the famine that inspired first Band Aids Do They Know Its Christmas and then Live Aid was very bad and people were dying of starvation. Getty Images Queen s Live Aid performance in July 1985 may have clocked in at just 17 minutes but they were 17 minutes which would both make rock history and transform the band for good.

As an event to help people Live. The HIVgov Timeline reflects the history of the domestic HIVAIDS epidemic from the first reported cases in 1981 to the presentwhere advances in HIV prevention care and treatment offer hope for a long healthy life to people who are living with or at risk for HIV and AIDS. Live Aid happened on July 13th1985.

In the 1980s and early 1990s the outbreak of HIV and AIDS swept across the United States and rest of the world though the disease originated decades earlier. The Live Aid concert at Wembley Stadium on July 13 1985 was a defining moment. But the cause was less nature than.