LIVE AID
 
Artist Various artists (featuring Dire Straits)
Release date 2004
Recording

Wembley Arena, London, UK, 13th July 1985
John F. Kennedy Stadium, Philadelphia, USA, 13th July 1985

Format 4DVD
Label Warner Music Vision
Cat.no. 2564 61895-2
Tracks DVD 1 Prequel:
BBC television news report
Band Aid - Do they know it's Christmas?
USA for Africa - We are the world

Coldstream Guards - Royal Salute
Status Quo - Rockin' all over the world
Status Quo – Caroline
The Style Council – Internationalists
The Style Council - Walls come tumbling down
The Boomtown Rats - I don’t like Mondays
The Boomtown Rats - Drag me down
Adam Ant - Vive le rock
Ultravox - Dancing with tears in my eyes
Ultravox – Vienna
Spandau Ballet - Only when you leave
Spandau Ballet – True
Elvis Costello - All you need is love
Nik Kershaw - Wouldn't it be good
Sade - Your love is king
Sting – Roxanne
Phil Collins - Against all odds
Sting & Phil Collins - Every breath you take
Howard Jones - Hide and seek
Bryan Ferry - Slave to love
Bryan Ferry - Jealous guy
Paul Young - Do they know it's Christmas?
Paul Young - Come back and stay
Paul Young - Every time you go away
Paul Young & Alison Moyet - That's the way love is
Bryan Adams - Kids wanna rock
Bryan Adams - Summer of '69
U2 - Sunday bloody Sunday
U2 – Bad
 
Tracks DVD 2 Beach Boys -Wouldn't it be nice
Beach Boys - Good vibrations
Beach Boys - Surfin' USA
Dire Straits & Sting - Money for nothing
Dire Straits - Sultans of swing
George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Madison blues
Queen - Bohemian rhapsody
Queen - Radio gaga
Queen - Hammer to fall
Queen - Crazy little thing called love
Queen - We will rock you
Queen - We are the champions
Simple Minds - Ghost dancing
Simple Minds - (Don't you) forget about me
David Bowie - TVC15
David Bowie - Rebel rebel
David Bowie - Modern love
David Bowie – Heroes
Ethiopian Famine film
Joan Baez - Amazing grace
Pretenders - Stop your sobbing
Pretenders - Chain gang
Pretenders - Middle of the road
The Who - Love reign o'er me
The Who - Won't get fooled again
Kenny Loggins - Footloose
Elton John - Bennie and the jets
Elton John - Rocket man
Elton John & Kiki Dee - Don't go breaking my heart
Elton John & George Michael - Don’t let the sun go down on me
 
Tracks DVD 3 Madonna – Holiday
Madonna - Get into the groove
Freddie Mercury & Brian May - Is this the world we created?
Paul McCartney - Let it be
Band Aid Finale - Do they know it's Christmas?
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - American girl
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Refugee
Black Sabbath featuring Ozzy Osbourne – Paranoid
REO Speedwagon - Can't fight this feeling
REO Speedwagon - Roll with the changes
Crosby Stills & Nash - Teach your children
Judas Priest - Living after midnight
Judas Priest - Green manalishi
The Cars - Just what I needed
The Cars - Heartbreak city
Neil Young - The needle and the damage done
Neil Young - Nothing is perfect (In God's perfect plan)
Thompson Twins, Steve Stevens, Nile Rodgers & Madonna – Revolution
Eric Clapton - White room
Eric Clapton - She's waiting
Eric Clapton – Layla
Phil Collins (in Philadelphia) - In the air tonight
Duran Duran - Union of the snake
Duran Duran - Save a prayer
Duran Duran - The reflex
Patti Labelle – Imagine
Patti Labelle - Forever young
 
Tracks DVD 4 Hall & Oates – Maneater
Hall & Oates with Eddie Kendricks - Get ready (Cos here I come)
Hall & Oates with Eddie Kendricks & David Ruffin - Ain't too proud to beg
Hall & Oates with Eddie Kendricks & David Ruffin - My girl
Mick Jagger - Just another night
Mick Jagger - Miss you
Mick Jagger & Tina Turner - State of shock
Mick Jagger & Tina Turner - It's only Rock 'n' Roll
Bob Dylan with Keith Richards & Ron Wood - Blowing in the wind
USA for Africa Finale - We are the world

Extras
INXS - What you need INXS - Don’t change B.B. King - Why I sing the blues B.B. King - Don't answer the door B.B. King - Rock me baby Ashford & Simpson with Teddy Pendergrass - Reach out and touch Run DMC -King of rock Cliff Richard - A world of difference Overseas contributors - Various David Bowie & Mick Jagger - Dancing in the streets Documentary: Food & trucks & Rock 'n' Roll
 
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Additional comments Live Aid, a UK concert recorded live from Wembley Stadium in London and in America live from the John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia on 13th July 1985. It still is one of the biggest concerts of all time. Bands playing and giving their best just to send the whole world one message: Feed the world! Probably the largest charity concert to raise money for the starving people in Ethiopia. Dire Straits was one of the bands that appeared that afternoon at Wembley Stadium and they played just two songs: Money for nothing and Sultans of swing. Dire Straits was only able to play in the afternoon as they were in the middle of the Brothers in arms world tour had their own concert that evening at Wembley Arena, just around the corner of Wembley Stadium.