Live Aid DVD Due In November

Jahfin · Post by **Jahfin** » July 16, 2004 11:57 am

From Billboard.com:
http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/artic ... 1000578499

The historic 1985 Live Aid concert will finally be released on DVD in the fall. Earlier this year, the Band Aid Trust agreed to auction the global rights for the concerts for the first time, after pirated copies were found for sale on the Internet.

Warner Vision International won the bidding and has set a Nov. 10 release date for a four-disc DVD package. The iconic Live Aid, held at London's Wembley and Philadelphia's JFK Stadium, raised more than $70 million for famine relief in Africa.

Among the acts that performed were a reunited Led Zeppelin, U2, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Madonna, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Neil Young and Queen. The DVDs will feature a documentary, "Food, Trucks & Rock'n'Roll," plus performances from related Live Aid events around the world.

"Twenty years ago they not only played 'real good for free,' they took an issue that was nowhere on the agenda of the political world and placed it at the very top," says concert organizer Bob Geldof. "By buying the Live Aid DVD, that day continues far off into some distant but hopefully better future for all those people in whose name those great artists played."

-- Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

ejr · Post by **ejr** » July 16, 2004 4:15 pm

I'll be curious to see how much of it is on the DVD-somewhere I have the tape I made while watching the highlights, and that was several hours. This could be fun to own!

Melli_Fera · Post by **Melli_Fera** » July 16, 2004 4:33 pm

ejr wrote:I'll be curious to see how much of it is on the DVD-somewhere I have the tape I made while watching the highlights, and that was several hours. This could be fun to own!

I have it on VHS as well.... sounds fun

sirgumby77 · Post by **sirgumby77** » July 17, 2004 1:53 am

I was at the Farm Aid 97 Great show---shoulda just killed off Dave Matthews before he it the stage-----worst part of the night. Thankfully drugs were available LOL

Jahfin · Post by **Jahfin** » July 20, 2004 11:47 am

I remember driving around taping the original broadcast on a portable boombox because I didn't wanna miss anything. Somewhere I also have a stash of reel-to-reel tapes of it that a friend was kind enough to record at the radio station we both worked at at the time. I've seen bits and pieces of it on video over the years but never the entire thing so I'm looking forward to it's release on DVD as well.