“Just for one day...”
Right about now 40 years ago in the UK on 13th July 1985, some visitors to this page had just finished watching David Bowie live onstage at Wembley Stadium for the global event that was Live Aid.
His four-song set of TVC 15, Rebel Rebel, Modern Love and Heroes preceded harrowing footage of Ethiopian famine victims, for which Bowie dropped a song from his set, as described by Harvey Goldsmith...
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"One afternoon before the concert, Bowie was up in the office and we started looking through some videos of news footage, and we watched the CBC piece [footage from the Ethiopian famine, cut to the Cars' song "Drive"]. Everyone just stopped. Bowie said: 'You've got to put that in the show; it's the most dramatic thing I've ever seen.' That was probably one of the most evocative things in the whole show and really got the money rolling in."
—Live Aid promoter Harvey Goldsmith on Bowie picking out the CBC news piece for the concert, a video Bowie introduced on the big screen at Wembley after his set.
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See the Bowie and Iman official socials for from the day.
📸 Bowie and Bob Geldof by Brian Aris
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