Tribute Night: Live Aid 40th Anniversary

“It’s 12 noon in London, 7am in Philadelphia… and around the world, it’s time for Live Aid!”

Live Aid – ‘The Global Jukebox’ – was the biggest live rock event ever, featuring an incredible roster of the day’s arist-rock-racy. The concerts were broadcast live from Wembley Stadium in London and JFK Stadium in Philadelphia on 13 July 1985, and there were also contributions from Japan, Australia, Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Russia and Germany (although, as Andy Kershaw rightly noted, not from Africa). The whole event featured 16 hours of live music and was watched by over 1.5 billion people worldwide. Not without its criticisms and shortcomings, Live Aid was undoubtedly a significant and memorable event in our lives and pop history.

If you would like to be involved, you will need to do a little bit of research. You may perform any song that was performed at Live Aid. That’s it. Simple. That information is easy to find.

As well as commemorating 40 years since Live Aid, this is a rare opportunity for you to revisit artists already featured at Tribute Night that you may have missed the first time around, and also to pick songs by artists who perhaps might otherwise be overlooked in the Trib schedule.

If you want to be involved and play a song or two, email Zac at tributenight@hotmail.co.uk back and let me know. You can bagsy a slot first if you haven’t decided on a song.

If you are a musician/singer and you want to be involved, but you don’t know other people to play or sing with, let me know and we’ll have a go at matching you up with others.

If you have an audio/video recording of yourself performing a song from Live Aid, or indeed any song relevant to a previous Tribute Night, please send me a link to post on the Tribute Night Facebook page.

Thank you for your continued support of this frivolous thing we call Tribute Night. It’s a right lark.