[Slowhand] Live Aid DVD Due in November

[EddyPauley at aol.com]

Live Aid DVD Due in November

By Jonathan Cohen 

NEW YORK (Billboard) - 

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 U2, Bob Dylan with Keith Richards and Ron 
Wood, David Bowie, Madonna, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton , Neil Young, Queen, 
and the three surviving members of Led Zeppelin. 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," said 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." 

Reuters/Billboard 



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