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1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,040 This programme contains some strong language 2 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:06,240 It's 12 noon in London, 7am in Philadelphia, 3 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:08,440 and around the world, it's time for Live Aid! 4 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:11,880 40 years ago, music brought the world together 5 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:13,640 to fight a famine in Ethiopia. 6 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:15,880 ♪ We could be heroes... ♪ 7 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:21,320 32 million human beings dying of hunger in a world of surplus food. 8 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:25,120 And it's this simple thing that drives me nuts. 9 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:26,760 ♪ Just for one day. ♪ 10 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:28,800 It all began with a song. 11 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:31,480 The most remarkable number one ever. 12 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:33,520 It sold a million in a week. 13 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:37,320 Well, that's more than any other record in the history of music. 14 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:41,920 It inspired Live Aid, one of the biggest global events in history. 15 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:44,160 To be honest, it seemed a harebrained scheme. 16 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:45,760 It seemed like this could never happen. 17 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:48,440 I remember the stadium shaking. 18 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:50,920 I was singing my face off, honey. 19 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,480 ♪ It was 20 years ago today Sergeant Pepper taught... ♪ 20 00:00:53,480 --> 00:00:57,560 20 years on, Live 8 challenged leaders of the world's richest 21 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:01,200 countries to address the causes of poverty in Africa. 22 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:03,320 People were saying, "Why in the hell are we going to spend money 23 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:05,880 "over in Africa when we g***t road problems in my state?" 24 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:09,440 I said to Bob, "I'll do the politics, you do the public." 25 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:12,640 Nothing can ever repair the damage 26 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:16,280 colonisation, slavery did. 27 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:18,240 Nothing. 28 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:20,760 But this was demonstrating what we could do. 29 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:33,720 This is the story of how a pop song inspired a movement that 30 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:37,760 secured tens of billions of pounds for Africa. 31 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:42,120 You can't change the world with a song or even a concert. 32 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:43,680 But you can plant a seed. 33 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:46,120 ♪ ..Lonely Hearts Club Band. ♪ 34 00:01:55,160 --> 00:02:00,680 {\an8}It was a dreary October, and I g***t home at six o'clock in the evening - 35 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:03,600 {\an8}and, as I always say, that's, in rock and roll terms, 36 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,440 {\an8}a measure of how not well you're doing, 37 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:09,560 because if you're in a rock and roll band, you're really not at home - 38 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,880 and turned on the television. 39 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:16,480 Dawn, and as the sun breaks the piercing chill of night 40 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:18,360 on the plain outside Korem, 41 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:23,400 it lights up a biblical famine, now, in the 20th century. 42 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:28,320 This place, say workers here, is the closest thing to hell on Earth. 43 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,080 There's not enough food for half these people. 44 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,680 Rumours of a shipment can set off panic. 45 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:39,040 As on most days, the rumours were false. 46 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:43,200 My partner, Paula, couldn't stand watching it. 47 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:45,360 She didn't want our child to watch it. 48 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:49,120 She clearly associated what she was seeing with our child 49 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:51,320 and just grabbed her and ran upstairs, 50 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:54,120 and I stayed transfixed. 51 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:57,360 Two months ago, there were 10,000 people here. 52 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:00,040 Now the latest harvest has failed, there are 40,000. 53 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:04,800 There were enormous numbers of people wherever you looked, 54 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,120 {\an8}camped out, swamping this, this... 55 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:09,800 {\an8}...this smallish town. 56 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:14,040 There was a low... a low wall, I remember, 57 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,440 um, a little enclosure. 58 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:21,320 And there were some people in the enclosure who were being given food. 59 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:23,640 All the rest of the people, who had no food at all, 60 00:03:23,640 --> 00:03:27,960 just looking at, you know, the tiny number of people who did, 61 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:29,640 who did have something. 62 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:34,400 I remember this... terrified, 63 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:36,560 bewildered young girl 64 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:39,520 in this maelstrom of madness. 65 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:43,120 The choice of deciding who came into the feeding centre 66 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:47,120 was really very difficult, because there was 67 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:49,760 {\an8}thousands of people that needed to come in 68 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:51,920 {\an8}to feed thousands of children. 69 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:54,240 I only had 60 or 70 places. 70 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:58,720 But making that decision day after day, does that do anything to you? 71 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:00,040 Yes, of course it does. 72 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:03,960 What do you expect? Yes, of course it does. 73 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:05,520 It breaks my heart, 74 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:08,720 but at least I can see some of the ones that I ** helping. 75 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:16,720 That night, I had agreed to go to 76 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:21,960 the book launch of the stylist of the 1980s, Peter York. 77 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:25,640 That was probably the book where Peter York defined 78 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:30,320 the posh girls who hung around the King's Road as "Sloane Rangers" 79 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:33,400 and the cornucopia... 80 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:38,800 ...of everything, free, 81 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:43,880 and talking about something as hollow as style... 82 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:50,040 ...must have annoyed me, 83 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:55,280 that I was going around very angry and saying to people, 84 00:04:55,280 --> 00:04:58,560 "Have you seen this? Have you seen? It's terrible." 85 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:00,720 I was just watching that Ethiopian thing. 86 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:03,600 I think this is gross after, coming out, after seeing that. 87 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:05,520 Oh, yeah. I'm serious. 88 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:11,760 A lot of people eating a lot of food. I'm so sorry... 89 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:13,520 Sorry, do you want any champagne? 90 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:17,680 Well, I've limited myself to two sausages, as a result, so... 91 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:21,440 People are going, "Give it a rest, Geldof," you know, sort of thing. 92 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:25,640 I came down in the morning, about ten, 93 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:29,720 and there was a green bowl on the pine table in the kitchen, 94 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:32,000 and Paula had put a note in there saying, 95 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:38,240 anyone who comes to this house must put £1 or £5 into this bowl. 96 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:39,920 And I thought... 97 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:44,600 ...that's just not adequate. 98 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,160 {\an8}♪ The silicon chip inside her head 99 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:52,680 {\an8}♪ Gets switched to overload 100 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:55,840 ♪ And nobody's gonna go to school today 101 00:05:55,840 --> 00:05:59,120 ♪ She's gonna make them stay at home... ♪ 102 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:02,960 I had been in a very successful band for ten years, 103 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:07,520 and I had been forced to realise 104 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:12,920 that maybe those best years of my life up to that point 105 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:14,760 were beginning to turn. 106 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:18,360 ♪ Tell me why I don't like Mondays 107 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:19,480 ♪ Tell me why 108 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:21,600 ♪ I don't like Mondays 109 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:22,720 ♪ Tell me why 110 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:25,120 ♪ I don't like Mondays 111 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:30,800 ♪ I wanna shoot-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo 112 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:32,680 ♪ The whole day down... ♪ 113 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:36,480 All I had the power to at that moment was write tunes. 114 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:41,160 But the immediate knowledge was that The Boomtown Rats 115 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:44,120 were not guaranteed to have hits any more. 116 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:46,640 These new guys had come along. 117 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:49,040 {\an8}♪ Her name is Rio 118 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:50,920 {\an8}♪ And she dances on the sand. ♪ 119 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:53,400 Beautiful suits. Coifed hair. 120 00:06:53,400 --> 00:07:00,360 ♪ Just like that river twisting through a dusty land. ♪ 121 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:02,880 Margaret Thatcher was at the peak of her power. 122 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:08,680 The country was so polarised. 123 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:10,760 This...