{"id":46054,"date":"2025-07-07T13:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T13:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/46054\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T13:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T13:18:10","slug":"live-aid-at-40-bbc-two-documentary-called-profoundly-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/46054\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Aid at 40: BBC Two documentary called \u2018profoundly moving\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A documentary celebrating 40 years of Live Aid<\/a> has received widespread praise on social media. <\/p>\n

Airing on BBC Two on Sunday (6 July), the three-part series, Live Aid at 40: When Rock and Roll Took on the World, follows the legacy of Band Aid, Live Aid and Live 8 \u201cin reshaping charity and politics\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Organised by Bob Geldof<\/a>, the concert raised over $127m (\u00a3109m) for famine relief in Ethiopia in 1985. Over one billion people watched the broadcast across 100 countries. <\/p>\n

Featuring archival footage, the first episode follows Geldof as he formed supergroup Band Aid to release the single \u201cDo They Know It\u2019s Christmas?\u201d, a second episode covers the creation of the historic concert Live Aid (including Geldof\u2019s reservations about having Queen perform <\/a>at the gig), while the finale follows the creation of Live 8. <\/p>\n

Viewers were filled with nostalgia as they reflected on \u201cone of the most important moments in TV history\u201d when BBC journalist Michael Buerk<\/a>\u2019s report on the Ethiopian famine sparked Geldof\u2019s desire to set up charitable causes.<\/p>\n

\u201cMichael Buerk’s Ethiopia report was one of the most important moments in TV history,\u201d wrote one person on X\/Twitter. \u201cShowed the world what was happening and was pivotal in inspiring the idea of Band Aid and leading to Live Aid.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Live Aid at 40 documentary is incredible,\u201d wrote another. \u201cThe interviews with Ethiopian people involved at the time including famine victims are superb. I remember it so well…\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Freddie<\/p>\n

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Freddie Mercury performed at Live Aid in 1985 (CREDIT LINE:BBC\/Brook Lapping\/Band Aid Trust)<\/p>\n

Others, who were present at the time when the initiatives were created, said: \u201cWatching #LiveAid40<\/a> evokes such incongruous emotions. Nostalgia \u2013 the magnitude of it all, Geldof’s manic energy, the brilliant music; and then the despair of children still shamefully and needlessly starving 40 years later. Have we really learned anything?\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite divided opinions on Geldof, who recently hit out at claims he was a \u201cwhite saviour\u201d,<\/a> the Boomtown Rats musician was lauded as an \u201cabsolute genius\u201d for his legacy.<\/p>\n

\"Bob<\/p>\n

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Bob Geldof reflects on 40 years since the creation of Live Aid (CREDIT LINE:BBC\/Brook Lapping)<\/p>\n

\u201cThis looked extraordinary at the time, having two concerts on both sides of the Atlantic,\u201d said one viewer. \u201cEven if he was a bit of a bore, Bob Geldof was still an absolute genius for putting this altogether.\u201d<\/p>\n

One person called the first two episodes \u201cprofoundly moving\u201d. <\/a> <\/p>\n

\u201cI laughed, cried and had goosebumps,\u201d wrote one social media user. \u201cLove or loathe Geldof, what he has done was incredible. He got angry and acted. Bono saying he can\u2019t look at his performance because he had a mullet was hilarious.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,53,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-46054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114812152358659351","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}