The success of the single and Geldof's subsequent trip to Africa sparks the largest global fundraising concert, held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia, broadcast to more ...
06-07-2025
BBC 2
World Catch up ">All episodes
In late October 1984, a BBC news report about a 'biblical famine' in Ethiopia inspired rock star Bob Geldof to collaborate with Midge Ure on a pop song that would mobilise not o ...
06-07-2025
BBC 2
World Catch up ">All episodes