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"All the rage, all the shame."
Live Aid at 40: When Rock 'n' Roll Took on the World A three part documentary looking back at the Live Aid, 40 (!?) years on.
History has been... somewhat mixed in its assessment of Live Aid but, as a useful Guardian review notes "there's no debating what an extraordinary phenomenon it was." "Episode one... is all about the smaller but still massive cultural moment that resulted from Geldof's initial impulse to raise funds for Ethiopia: Do They Know It's Christmas?, a single by the hastily assembled supergroup Band Aid." Subsequent episodes deal, somewhat more critically, with the accusation that Geldof became a "white saviour" figure, with the practical measures involved in actually allocating the money raised and with the self-interest of at least some of the participants.
History has been... somewhat mixed in its assessment of Live Aid but, as a useful Guardian review notes "there's no debating what an extraordinary phenomenon it was." "Episode one... is all about the smaller but still massive cultural moment that resulted from Geldof's initial impulse to raise funds for Ethiopia: Do They Know It's Christmas?, a single by the hastily assembled supergroup Band Aid." Subsequent episodes deal, somewhat more critically, with the accusation that Geldof became a "white saviour" figure, with the practical measures involved in actually allocating the money raised and with the self-interest of at least some of the participants.