9 h. ago Bob Geldof vows to carry on 'vital' work as he launches Live Aid musical

As the 40th anniversary of the iconic concert approaches, the Boomtown Rats star announced another exciting project back where it all began

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10 h. ago Bob Geldof and Midge Ure return to Wembley Stadium for Live Aid: The Musical cast recording as they prepare for 40 year anniversary of iconic famine relief concerts

The original two-venue benefit, held on July 13 1985, was organised by Geldof and Ure to raise relief funds for Ethiopia as the East African country battled a devastating famine.

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11 h. ago Bob Geldof says he's 'blue in the face' hearing Freddie Mercury's Live Aid performance with Queen

The musician and activist was at Wembley for the launch of Just for One Day - The Live Aid musical ahead of it’s West End opening

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11 h. ago Bob Geldof and Midge Ure reunite at Wembley Stadium for Live Aid: The Musical cast recording as they prepare to celebrate 40 years since iconic concerts raised £150 million for famine relief

The original two-venue benefit, held on July 13 1985, was organised by Geldof and Ure to raise relief funds for Ethiopia as the East African country battled a devastating famine.

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13 h. ago BBC announces documentary and shows for Live Aid 40th anniversary

A number of programmes will feature on BBC Two and BBC Radio 2 to celebrate the event.

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14 h. ago Bob Geldof says another Live Aid event is ‘unlikely’ because of social media

The singer was speaking at a launch event at Wembley Stadium for Just For One Day, a musical about the charity event.

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39 h. ago Martin Kemp admits 'it was the worst mistake of our lives' in Live Aid confession

The actor and musician says that the internationally-broadcast concert provided both a career highlight – and an embarrassingly poor choice of material

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9 d. ago This simple daily activity may help you live longer and aid your heart

Regularly taking the stairs is linked to a 24% reduced risk of dying from any cause

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1 week ago Newly married and pregnant... inside Tiger Lily Hutchence's 'refreshingly normal' life

Tiger Lily - the only child of late rock stars and adopted by Bob Geldof - has found stability in a family whose backdrop is a world away from the wild antics of her party-loving parents.

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2 w. ago MAFS UK's first trans star Ella Morgan shares her serious fears over 'scary' Supreme Court gender ruling

The reality star, 31, has remained defiant and has vowed to carry on using female toilets after judges declared that the definition of a woman in the Equality Act should be determined by their biological sex.

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2 w. ago How Bob Geldof's daughters have all found love with creative men who enjoy low

Bob Geldof famously sang 'to live in love is all there is; life without love is meaningless'. And it seems his daughters have heeded his message.

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2 w. ago Tragic feud overshadowing Tiger Lily's wedding: Bob Geldof was branded 'Satanic and cruel' during bitter custody battle with Michael Hutchence's family

Tiger Lily Hutchence's secret East London wedding' this weekend was said to have been 'very rock 'n' roll' - but behind the singer's happy day is a painful history.

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2 w. ago Watch live: David Lammy addresses Sudan conference as UK pledges £120m aid package

Watch live as David Lammy speaks at a conference on Sudan on Tuesday, 15 April, as the UK government announces a £120m food and aid package for the country.

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3 w. ago Gaza rescue workers say 20 people killed in Israeli strike on residential block – Middle East crisis live

Gaza’s civil defence agency says the strike resulted in ‘20 martyrs and more than 40 injured’The Gaza health ministry said on Wednesday that at least 1,482 Palestinians have been killed since Israel resumed intense strikes on the Gaza Strip on 18 March, taking the overall death toll since the start of the war to 50,846.Hamas’s October 2023 attack resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an Agence France-Presse (AFP) tally based on Israeli official figures. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Gaza has become ‘a killing field’ due to Israel blocking aid, says UN secretary general – Middle East crisis live

António Guterres says ‘more than a month has passed without aid into Gaza’ as Israeli officials say there is ‘no shortage’ of aidAs calls for Lebanon’s Hezbollah to disarm gain momentum, a senior Hezbollah official told Reuters the group is ready to hold talks with the Lebanese president about its weapons if Israel withdraws from south Lebanon and stops its strikes.US-backed president Joseph Aoun, who vowed when he took office in January to establish a state monopoly on the control of arms, intends to open talks with Hezbollah over its arsenal soon, three Lebanese political sources told Reuters. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘They didn’t call us for Live Aid’: the stars behind Black Britain’s forgotten charity record

In 1985, a star-studded lineup of Black UK musicians, including Aswad, Dennis Brown and Janet Kay, recorded a charity single to raise funds for famine-stricken Ethiopia. Why are their efforts so little known?The Ethiopian famine of the early 1980s was one of the defining news stories of the decade, an exposure of the stark divide between developed and developing nations, still referred to at the time as the Third World. It is a received wisdom that the general public in Britain learned about the crisis when shocking images of emaciated men, women and children were shown on BBC news reports. This is not entirely true. In fact, plenty of Rastafarians were already aware of the situation.The east African country was their spiritual home – many in the movement viewed its former emperor Haile Selassie as their messiah – and a place free from the iniquities of the west. “A lot of Rastafarians went to Ethiopia [before they] came to London,” says the musician and cam...

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4 w. ago Gethin Jones steps in after seeing 'hard to watch’ moment while shopping and questions cashier

Morning Live presenter, Gethin Jones has shared a candid Instagram post in aid of World Autism Awareness Day. The day is celebrated annually on April, and aims to raise awareness and take measures to support autistic individuals.

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