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35th anniversary of "Live Aid"🤍 Madonna performing at Live Aid in front of 100,000 people in the John F. Kennedy Stadium, Philadelphia USA on the 13th July, 1985. The event was organised by Sir Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for the Ethiopian famine disaster. #madonna🖤 https://t.co/APLtUt9UYc

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happy live aid day guys 😊 https://t.co/8opMfwYNeu

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35 years ago the greatest showman took the stage at live aid Wembley stadium https://t.co/3zDQ3DiTM7

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35 years ago today - Duran Duran perform their new James Bond song to an audience of billions... and this happens #LiveAid https://t.co/kMuIBSE7xF

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david bowie performing modern love at live aid was a cultural reset https://t.co/i2YnvXJtak

Thirty-five years ago today, on July 13, 1985, the benefit concert Live Aid was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London and at John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Bob Geldof and Midge Ure organized the event to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia. The concert was watched by an unprecedented nearly 2 billion people across 150 nations, which represented nearly 40% of the Earth's population at the time.