It’s been almost 35 years since Bob Geldof and Midge Ure floated the idea of a global music-based event, Live Aid, to raise awareness and support against what BBC News called “the closest thing to hell on Earth.” The world’s attention was drawn to the 1985 crisis in Ethiopia — a famine so dire that it was referred to as “biblical” in scope and responsible for the deaths of millions.
We were one back then, seduced by a greater moral imperative, evangelized through Marshall amps and the voices of dozens of rock and pop stars.
We never thought that we would be so splintered, so torn between two ideologies that it would take a pandemic to bring us together, albeit temporarily, over an Academy Award-nominated song written by a celebrated song
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