Live Aid: When Rock 'N' Roll Took On The World

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Live Aid: When Rock 'N' Roll Took On The World

Bob Geldof and Bono join forces to stage Live 8, a global concert aimed at pressuring the world's richest leaders to tackle the root causes of poverty in Africa.

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Season 1
The second half of Live Aid in the United States brings in millions, thrusting Bob Geldof into Africa's politics as he navigates fundraising, controversy and celebrity.
With sales from the 1984 Band Aid Christmas single dwindling, Bob Geldof decides that there needs to be a new fundraising push, leading him to organize two concerts.
After seeing a BBC report on Ethiopia's "biblical famine," rock star Bob Geldof brings together a group of fellow popstars to record a song that ignites a global movement.
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