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Live Aid: When Rock 'n' Roll Took on the World (2025) | ecco
Live Aid: When Rock 'n' Roll Took on the World
1
Season
2025
7.7
Interviews with musicians and political figures who became part of the Live Aid that started with Bob Geldof feeling bad at a party after a famine reportage in Ethiopia. He contacted Mide Ure the made a song, and gathered British artists.
Episode List
S1 • E1
Episode #1.1
After seeing a BBC report on Ethiopia's "biblical famine," rock star Bob Geldof brings together a group of fellow popstars to record a song that ignites a global movement and raises millions for relief efforts.
S1 • E2
The Global Jukebox
With sales from the 1984 Band Aid Christmas single dwindling, Bob Geldof decides in the new year that there needs to be a new fundraising push, leading him to organize two huge concerts in Britain and the United States.
S1 • E3
Episode #1.3
The second half of Live Aid in the United States brings in millions, thrusting Bob Geldof into Africa's politics as he navigates fundraising, controversy and celebrity.
S1 • E4
Episode #1.4
Bob Geldof and Bono join forces to stage Live 8, a global concert aimed at pressuring the world's richest leaders to tackle the root causes of poverty in Africa.