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00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:05,This programme contains
some strong language.

00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:07,Around the world,
it's time for Live Aid!

00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:11,40 years ago, music
brought the world together

00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:13,to fight a famine in Ethiopia.

00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:15,♪ We can be heroes... ♪

00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:20,32 million human beings
dying of hunger in a world of

00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:25,surplus food, and it's this simple
thing that drives me nuts.

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

00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:28,It all began with a song.

00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:33,The most remarkable number one ever.
It's sold a million in a week.

00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:36,Well, that's more than any other
record in the history of music.

00:00:37,400 --> 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 --> 00:00:46,It seemed like
this could never happen.

00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:48,I remember the stadium shaking.

00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:50,I was singing my face off, honey.

00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:54,♪ Well, it was 20 years ago today
Sergeant Pepper... ♪

00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:57,20 years on, Live 8 challenged
the leaders of the world's

00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:01,richest countries to address
the causes of poverty in Africa.

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

00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:06,"over in Africa when we g***t
road problems in my state?"

00:01:06,320 --> 00:01:09,I said to Bob, "I'll do the
politics, you do the public."

00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:16,Nothing can ever repair the damage,
colonisation, slavery did.

00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:18,Nothing.

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

00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:30,♪ Lonely Hearts Club Band... ♪

00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:34,This is the story of how a pop song
inspired a movement

00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,that secured tens of billions
of pounds for Africa.

00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:41,You can't change the world
with a song or even a concert.

00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:43,But you can plant a seed.

00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:47,♪ Lonely Hearts Club Band. ♪

00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:52,Bob Geldof announces his newest

00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:57,and biggest idea to help
victims of the African famine.

00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:59,Good morning, everybody.

00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:05,I'm very pleased to announce
Band Aid start the second part of

00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:10,their programme by announcing
Live Aid, which, without a doubt,

00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:16,will be the largest pop concert ever
held, with the greatest audience.

00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:17,Hello, Bob.

00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:25,The Band Aid record money
was dwindling.

00:02:26,920 --> 00:02:29,Bob came in and said,
"I've g***t this idea,"

00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,{\an8}and he announced
the idea of Live Aid.

00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:34,{\an8}I think we all thought
it was technically impossible.

00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:36,This was a shock.

00:02:36,640 --> 00:02:41,One of the trustees whispered
in my ear, "Kennedy, he's mad.

00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:43,"You have to stop him.

00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:46,"We do not know anything
about putting on concerts."

00:02:46,640 --> 00:02:49,But Bob knows a man who does.

00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:53,He brings Harvey Goldsmith
into the trustees' meeting,

00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:56,one of the most successful
promoters of all time.

00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:59,Bob asked me to come to a meeting
of the Band Aid Trust

00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:02,and just announced,
"We're doing the concert.

00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:04,"Harvey's doing it. See you later."

00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:10,Bob realised that he wasn't going
to get enough global traction

00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:11,if we just did one concert.

00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:16,I needed something equal
in the United States.

00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:20,If we had it on two continents,
then we united Band Aid

00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:24,and USA for Africa, and that
brought in those two countries.

00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:29,So for me, it had to be the two. But
also, it had to be a spectacular.

00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:33,I stepped back and said, "He's
barking mad. How do we do that?",

00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:36,because that had never
been done before.

00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:43,I'd never seen, in all my working
life, as many press that turned up

00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:48,for this gathering
in the ballroom of Wembley Stadium.

00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:51,I kept saying to Bob,
"What are we going to say?"

00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:57,At that stage, I can't really
remember who we had.

00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:02,I listed a bunch of people
who we probably could talk to.

00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:07,The people taking part will be...

00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:08,...Bryan Adams...

00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:10,...Adam Ant...

00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:11,...The Boomtown Rats...

00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:13,...David Bowie...

00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:15,...the Cars... Queen...

00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:18,I literally kept kicking him,
saying, "No, you can't say that.

00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:20,"No, you can't say that.
No, we don't know about this.

00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:21,"No, we don't know about that."

00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:23,And about five minutes ago,

00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:25,we heard some wonderful news,

00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,and that is that The Who,
one of the greatest bands ever in

00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,rock music, are re-forming
specifically for this event.

00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:34,{\an8}No, we weren't
getting back together. Erm...

00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:39,{\an8}It was blackmail, really. He was
brilliant, because he believed

00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:43,that it was something that he
passionately felt needed to be done.

00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:46,I don't think he would deny that
he bullied us into doing it.

00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:51,I sort of winged it
because of the Band Aid record

00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:53,and the USA for Africa record.

00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:57,So I was absolutely certain
that, you know,

00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:00,a good 80% of those guys
would show up on the day,

00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:04,in which case we have g***t
a serious concert going on.

00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:08,If I had done that, I'd be sued.
I'd be shot. I'd be... You know.

00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:10,But Bob doing it,
he g***t away with it!

00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:14,Box offices in London
have been besieged by fans

00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:18,queuing for the tickets
despite their £25 price tag.

00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:20,How much of the money do you think
will actually reach Ethiopia, then?

00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:22,I should imagine
the majority of it.

00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:25,But, I mean, I wouldn't pay it
if I didn't think it was going.

00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:29,No, I wouldn't pay 25 quid if
it wasn't going to most of Ethiopia.

00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:32,Are you coming here for the music
or the charity? For charity.

00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:34,And the music.

00:05:34,840 --> 00:05:37,25 quid's a lot of money to spend.
Why are you doing that?

00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:40,Because I want to see David Bowie.
That's it?

00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:42,You don't really care about the
charity, you just want to see him?

00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:46,Well, not particularly, no.
I just want to see David Bowie.

00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:49,It's to be approved
by either me or Mike Mitchell.

00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:53,I first came in contact with Bob

00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:57,{\an8}through a mutual friend.

00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:00,{\an8}This friend had known
what I'd done at the Olympics

00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:05,and knew what Bob was trying to do.
You g***t to put it in perspective,

00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:09,from where people
were coming from in 1985 -

00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:14,in the Olympics,
we have one location, LA,

00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:19,three satellites going to the world.
In this particular broadcast,

00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:22,we would be drawing
from seven locations,

00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:27,using 16 satellites, then mixing
and going all back to the world.

00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:30,So it had never been done.

00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:34,I didn't know enough that it was
impossible. No-one had ever

00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:37,had 16 hours of anything
on television.

00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:40,Even the Olympics weren't that long.

00:06:40,280 --> 00:06:43,Band Aid's inspiration now spends
20 hours a day...