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00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,This programme contains
some strong language

00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:06,It's 12 noon in London,
7am in Philadelphia,

00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:08,and around the world,
it's time for Live Aid!

00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:11,40 years ago, music brought
the world together

00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:13,to fight a famine in Ethiopia.

00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:15,♪ We could be heroes... ♪

00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:21,32 million human beings dying of
hunger in a world of surplus food.

00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:25,And it's this simple thing
that drives me nuts.

00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:26,♪ Just for one day. ♪

00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:28,It all began with a song.

00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:31,The most remarkable number one ever.

00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:33,It sold a million in a week.

00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:37,Well, that's more than any other
record in the history of music.

00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:41,It inspired Live Aid, one of the
biggest global events in history.

00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:44,To be honest,
it seemed a harebrained scheme.

00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:45,It seemed like this could
never happen.

00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:48,I remember the stadium shaking.

00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:50,I was singing my face off, honey.

00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,♪ It was 20 years ago today
Sergeant Pepper taught... ♪

00:00:53,480 --> 00:00:57,20 years on, Live 8 challenged
leaders of the world's richest

00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:01,countries to address the causes
of poverty in Africa.

00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:03,People were saying, "Why in the hell
are we going to spend money

00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:05,"over in Africa when we g***t
road problems in my state?"

00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:09,I said to Bob, "I'll do
the politics, you do the public."

00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:12,Nothing can ever repair the damage

00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:16,colonisation, slavery did.

00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:18,Nothing.

00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:20,But this was demonstrating
what we could do.

00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:33,This is the story of how a pop song
inspired a movement that

00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:37,secured tens of billions of pounds
for Africa.

00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:42,You can't change the world with
a song or even a concert.

00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:43,But you can plant a seed.

00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:46,♪ ..Lonely Hearts Club Band. ♪

00:01:55,160 --> 00:02:00,{\an8}It was a dreary October, and I g***t
home at six o'clock in the evening -

00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:03,{\an8}and, as I always say,
that's, in rock and roll terms,

00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,{\an8}a measure of how not well
you're doing,

00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:09,because if you're in a rock and roll
band, you're really not at home -

00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,and turned on the television.

00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:16,Dawn, and as the sun
breaks the piercing chill of night

00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:18,on the plain outside Korem,

00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:23,it lights up a biblical famine,
now, in the 20th century.

00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:28,This place, say workers here, is
the closest thing to hell on Earth.

00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,There's not enough food
for half these people.

00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,Rumours of a shipment can
set off panic.

00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:39,As on most days,
the rumours were false.

00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:43,My partner, Paula, couldn't stand
watching it.

00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:45,She didn't want our child
to watch it.

00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:49,She clearly associated
what she was seeing with our child

00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:51,and just grabbed her
and ran upstairs,

00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:54,and I stayed transfixed.

00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:57,Two months ago,
there were 10,000 people here.

00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:00,Now the latest harvest has failed,
there are 40,000.

00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:04,There were enormous numbers of
people wherever you looked,

00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,{\an8}camped out, swamping this, this...

00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:09,{\an8}...this smallish town.

00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:14,There was a low...
a low wall, I remember,

00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,um, a little enclosure.

00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:21,And there were some people in the
enclosure who were being given food.

00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:23,All the rest of the people,
who had no food at all,

00:03:23,640 --> 00:03:27,just looking at, you know,
the tiny number of people who did,

00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:29,who did have something.

00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:34,I remember this... terrified,

00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:36,bewildered young girl

00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:39,in this maelstrom of madness.

00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:43,The choice of deciding
who came into the feeding centre

00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:47,was really very difficult,
because there was

00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:49,{\an8}thousands of people that needed
to come in

00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:51,{\an8}to feed thousands of children.

00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:54,I only had 60 or 70 places.

00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:58,But making that decision day after
day, does that do anything to you?

00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:00,Yes, of course it does.

00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:03,What do you expect?
Yes, of course it does.

00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:05,It breaks my heart,

00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:08,but at least I can see some
of the ones that I ** helping.

00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:16,That night, I had agreed to go to

00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:21,the book launch of the stylist of
the 1980s, Peter York.

00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:25,That was probably the book
where Peter York defined

00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:30,the posh girls who hung around
the King's Road as "Sloane Rangers"

00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:33,and the cornucopia...

00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:38,...of everything, free,

00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:43,and talking about something
as hollow as style...

00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:50,...must have annoyed me,

00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:55,that I was going around very angry
and saying to people,

00:04:55,280 --> 00:04:58,"Have you seen this? Have you seen?
It's terrible."

00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:00,I was just watching
that Ethiopian thing.

00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:03,I think this is gross after,
coming out, after seeing that.

00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:05,Oh, yeah. I'm serious.

00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:11,A lot of people eating
a lot of food. I'm so sorry...

00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:13,Sorry, do you want any champagne?

00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:17,Well, I've limited myself to two
sausages, as a result, so...

00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:21,People are going, "Give it a rest,
Geldof," you know, sort of thing.

00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:25,I came down
in the morning, about ten,

00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:29,and there was a green bowl on
the pine table in the kitchen,

00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:32,and Paula had put a note
in there saying,

00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:38,anyone who comes to this house
must put £1 or £5 into this bowl.

00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:39,And I thought...

00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:44,...that's just not adequate.

00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,{\an8}♪ The silicon chip inside her head

00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:52,{\an8}♪ Gets switched to overload

00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:55,♪ And nobody's gonna go to school
today

00:05:55,840 --> 00:05:59,♪ She's gonna make them
stay at home... ♪

00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:02,I had been in a very successful band
for ten years,

00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:07,and I had been forced to realise

00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:12,that maybe those best years
of my life up to that point

00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:14,were beginning to turn.

00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:18,♪ Tell me why
I don't like Mondays

00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:19,♪ Tell me why

00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:21,♪ I don't like Mondays

00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:22,♪ Tell me why

00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:25,♪ I don't like Mondays

00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:30,♪ I wanna shoot-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo

00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:32,♪ The whole day down... ♪

00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:36,All I had the power to
at that moment was write tunes.

00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:41,But the immediate knowledge was
that The Boomtown Rats

00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:44,were not guaranteed to have hits
any more.

00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:46,These new guys had come along.

00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:49,{\an8}♪ Her name is Rio

00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:50,{\an8}♪ And she dances on the sand. ♪

00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:53,Beautiful suits. Coifed hair.

00:06:53,400 --> 00:07:00,♪ Just like that river twisting
through a dusty land. ♪

00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:02,Margaret Thatcher was
at the peak of her power.

00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:08,The country was so polarised.

00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:10,This...