Geldof believes we've "reduced ourselves" through our use of the internet Bob Geldof, creator of Live Aid, says he believes another event of its kind could never happen today.
The charity event took place at London’s Wembley Stadium in 1985, and was watched by nearly two billion people worldwide, over 40% of the world’s population.
It raised $127 million for famine relief in Africa. Another concert series of a similar kind, Live 8, took place in eight different locations in 2005, but Geldof believes another event on the Live Aid scale would be impossible today.
Speaking to CBC, the Boomtown Rats singer spoke of the 1985 event, saying: “We had a huge lobby: 1.2 billion people, 95 per cent of the television sets on Earth watched that concert.
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