Live Aid Concert
It's from 1985, before you were born.
- Artist
- Queen & various
- Genre
- Benefit concert
- Year
- 1985
- Note
- global famine-relief event
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As of 2026, it's 41 years old.
Live Aid was the most ambitious concert ever attempted — a dual-continent, all-day benefit broadcast to nearly two billion people in 1985 to fight famine, featuring basically everyone in rock. Its defining moment was Queen's 20-minute set, widely regarded as the single greatest live performance in history, with Freddie Mercury conducting 72,000 people like one giant instrument.
Phil Collins famously played both London and Philadelphia by hopping the Concorde, and the whole sprawling spectacle raised enormous sums for relief.
Massive, historic, and crowned by Queen's legendary set, Live Aid is the day rock music tried to save the world — and put on the greatest show it ever staged.
