Live Aid At 40 When Rock N Roll Took On The World Ip Aac2 0 H 264-casstudio S01E02 Subtitles

At 00:00:02,000, Character said: This programme contains
some strong language.

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At 00:00:05,280, Character said: Around the world,
it's time for Live Aid!

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At 00:00:07,800, Character said: 40 years ago, music
brought the world together

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At 00:00:11,800, Character said: to fight a famine in Ethiopia.

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At 00:00:14,320, Character said: ♪ We can be heroes... ♪

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At 00:00:15,920, Character said: 32 million human beings
dying of hunger in a world of

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At 00:00:20,280, Character said: surplus food, and it's this simple
thing that drives me nuts.

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At 00:00:25,120, Character said: ♪ Just for one day... ♪

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At 00:00:26,640, Character said: It all began with a song.

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At 00:00:28,800, Character said: The most remarkable number one ever.
It's sold a million in a week.

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At 00:00:33,520, Character said: Well, that's more than any other
record in the history of music.

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At 00:00:37,400, Character said: It inspired Live Aid, one of the
biggest global events in history.

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At 00:00:41,920, Character said: To be honest, it seemed
a harebrained scheme.

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At 00:00:44,160, Character said: It seemed like
this could never happen.

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At 00:00:46,120, Character said: I remember the stadium shaking.

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At 00:00:48,520, Character said: I was singing my face off, honey.

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At 00:00:50,960, Character said: ♪ Well, it was 20 years ago today
Sergeant Pepper... ♪

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At 00:00:54,280, Character said: 20 years on, Live 8 challenged
the leaders of the world's

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At 00:00:57,640, Character said: richest countries to address
the causes of poverty in Africa.

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At 00:01:01,200, Character said: People said, "Why the hell
are we going to spend money

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At 00:01:03,280, Character said: "over in Africa when we g***t
road problems in my state?"

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At 00:01:06,320, Character said: I said to Bob, "I'll do the
politics, you do the public."

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At 00:01:09,920, Character said: Nothing can ever repair the damage,
colonisation, slavery did.

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At 00:01:16,400, Character said: Nothing.

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At 00:01:18,240, Character said: But this was demonstrating
what we could do.

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At 00:01:28,560, Character said: ♪ Lonely Hearts Club Band... ♪

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At 00:01:30,280, Character said: This is the story of how a pop song
inspired a movement

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At 00:01:34,000, Character said: that secured tens of billions
of pounds for Africa.

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At 00:01:37,760, Character said: You can't change the world
with a song or even a concert.

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At 00:01:41,880, Character said: But you can plant a seed.

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At 00:01:43,680, Character said: ♪ Lonely Hearts Club Band. ♪

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At 00:01:50,720, Character said: Bob Geldof announces his newest

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At 00:01:52,920, Character said: and biggest idea to help
victims of the African famine.

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At 00:01:57,240, Character said: Good morning, everybody.

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At 00:01:59,800, Character said: I'm very pleased to announce
Band Aid start the second part of

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At 00:02:05,120, Character said: their programme by announcing
Live Aid, which, without a doubt,

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At 00:02:10,000, Character said: will be the largest pop concert ever
held, with the greatest audience.

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At 00:02:16,120, Character said: Hello, Bob.

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At 00:02:21,520, Character said: The Band Aid record money
was dwindling.

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

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At 00:02:29,560, Character said: {\an8}and he announced
the idea of Live Aid.

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At 00:02:32,320, Character said: {\an8}I think we all thought
it was technically impossible.

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At 00:02:34,880, Character said: This was a shock.

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At 00:02:36,640, Character said: One of the trustees whispered
in my ear, "Kennedy, he's mad.

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At 00:02:41,560, Character said: "You have to stop him.

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At 00:02:43,280, Character said: "We do not know anything
about putting on concerts."

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At 00:02:46,640, Character said: But Bob knows a man who does.

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At 00:02:49,240, Character said: He brings Harvey Goldsmith
into the trustees' meeting,

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At 00:02:53,160, Character said: one of the most successful
promoters of all time.

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At 00:02:56,040, Character said: Bob asked me to come to a meeting
of the Band Aid Trust

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At 00:02:59,880, Character said: and just announced,
"We're doing the concert.

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At 00:03:02,440, Character said: "Harvey's doing it. See you later."

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At 00:03:04,840, Character said: Bob realised that he wasn't going
to get enough global traction

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At 00:03:10,000, Character said: if we just did one concert.

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At 00:03:11,560, Character said: I needed something equal
in the United States.

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At 00:03:16,600, Character said: If we had it on two continents,
then we united Band Aid

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At 00:03:20,120, Character said: and USA for Africa, and that
brought in those two countries.

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At 00:03:24,360, Character said: So for me, it had to be the two. But
also, it had to be a spectacular.

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

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At 00:03:33,600, Character said: because that had never
been done before.

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At 00:03:38,120, Character said: I'd never seen, in all my working
life, as many press that turned up

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At 00:03:43,680, Character said: for this gathering
in the ballroom of Wembley Stadium.

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At 00:03:48,120, Character said: I kept saying to Bob,
"What are we going to say?"

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At 00:03:52,440, Character said: At that stage, I can't really
remember who we had.

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At 00:03:57,640, Character said: I listed a bunch of people
who we probably could talk to.

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At 00:04:04,120, Character said: The people taking part will be...

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At 00:04:07,000, Character said: ...Bryan Adams...

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At 00:04:08,880, Character said: ...Adam Ant...

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At 00:04:10,160, Character said: ...The Boomtown Rats...

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At 00:04:11,920, Character said: ...David Bowie...

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At 00:04:13,280, Character said: ...the Cars... Queen...

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At 00:04:15,760, Character said: I literally kept kicking him,
saying, "No, you can't say that.

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At 00:04:18,160, Character said: "No, you can't say that.
No, we don't know about this.

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At 00:04:20,400, Character said: "No, we don't know about that."

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At 00:04:21,720, Character said: And about five minutes ago,

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At 00:04:23,360, Character said: we heard some wonderful news,

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At 00:04:25,120, Character said: and that is that The Who,
one of the greatest bands ever in

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At 00:04:28,160, Character said: rock music, are re-forming
specifically for this event.

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At 00:04:31,800, Character said: {\an8}No, we weren't
getting back together. Erm...

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At 00:04:36,200, Character said: {\an8}It was blackmail, really. He was
brilliant, because he believed

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At 00:04:39,480, Character said: that it was something that he
passionately felt needed to be done.

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At 00:04:43,360, Character said: I don't think he would deny that
he bullied us into doing it.

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At 00:04:46,920, Character said: I sort of winged it
because of the Band Aid record

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At 00:04:51,120, Character said: and the USA for Africa record.

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At 00:04:53,320, Character said: So I was absolutely certain
that, you know,

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At 00:04:57,360, Character said: a good 80% of those guys
would show up on the day,

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At 00:05:00,840, Character said: in which case we have g***t
a serious concert going on.

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At 00:05:04,320, Character said: If I had done that, I'd be sued.
I'd be shot. I'd be... You know.

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At 00:05:08,120, Character said: But Bob doing it,
he g***t away with it!

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At 00:05:11,600, Character said: Box offices in London
have been besieged by fans

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At 00:05:14,360, Character said: queuing for the tickets
despite their £25 price tag.

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At 00:05:18,120, Character said: How much of the money do you think
will actually reach Ethiopia, then?

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At 00:05:20,480, Character said: I should imagine
the majority of it.

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At 00:05:22,880, Character said: But, I mean, I wouldn't pay it
if I didn't think it was going.

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At 00:05:25,520, Character said: No, I wouldn't pay 25 quid if
it wasn't going to most of Ethiopia.

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At 00:05:29,560, Character said: Are you coming here for the music
or the charity? For charity.

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At 00:05:32,960, Character said: And the music.

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At 00:05:34,840, Character said: 25 quid's a lot of money to spend.
Why are you doing that?

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At 00:05:37,520, Character said: Because I want to see David Bowie.
That's it?

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At 00:05:40,400, Character said: You don't really care about the
charity, you just want to see him?

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At 00:05:42,840, Character said: Well, not particularly, no.
I just want to see David Bowie.

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At 00:05:46,880, Character said: It's to be approved
by either me or Mike Mitchell.

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At 00:05:51,200, Character said: I first came in contact with Bob

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At 00:05:53,920, Character said: {\an8}through a mutual friend.

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At 00:05:57,040, Character said: {\an8}This friend had known
what I'd done at the Olympics

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At 00:06:00,800, Character said: and knew what Bob was trying to do.
You g***t to put it in perspective,

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At 00:06:05,040, Character said: from where people
were coming from in 1985 -

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At 00:06:09,360, Character said: in the Olympics,
we have one location, LA,

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At 00:06:14,480, Character said: three satellites going to the world.
In this particular broadcast,

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At 00:06:19,920, Character said: we would be drawing
from seven locations,

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At 00:06:22,920, Character said: using 16 satellites, then mixing
and going all back to the world.

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At 00:06:27,560, Character said: So it had never been done.

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

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At 00:06:34,480, Character said: had 16 hours of anything
on television.

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At 00:06:37,880, Character said: Even the Olympics weren't that long.

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At 00:06:40,280, Character said: Band Aid's inspiration now spends
20 hours a day...