Pete Townshend claims that The Who invented stadium rock - only to see Queen steal their thunder at Live Aid. In a new ...

A look into how close Live Aid came to being a total disaster, with clashing egos and logistical issues in the lead up, yet still went magnificently in the end.

But for a brief time in the early planning stages of the massive fundraiser concert, that career-defining moment was at risk of never happening at all. And that went both ways—neither the organizers ...

More than any artist on the star-studded bill, Queen have come synonymous with Live Aid, the band's short but spectacular six ...

Live Aid became the biggest live rock event ever, featuring an amazing line-up of rock stars. Spanning two continents, the concerts were broadcast direct from Wembley Stadium in London and JFK ...

From benefit concerts and stage dives to guitar fires and mud fights, these live music performances still take our breath ...

Items from Ultravox’s Live Aid performance nearly 40 years ago are to go under the hammer. Bass player Chris Cross’s guitar from the Wembley concert, his Live Aid security pass, ticket stub ...

But on that sunny day at Wembley Stadium, it wasn’t all smiles in the backstage enclosure - as Status Quo’s Francis Rossi would reveal. Quo were chosen as the opening act for Live Aid by organiser Bob ...

Promoter Harvey Goldsmith reveals his fight to book Queen for Live Aid in 1985 and how the band delivered the performance of ...

First, a confession: I wasn’t even alive when Queen played Live Aid. I was born three years later in 1988, three years before Mercury died of bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS. My first ...