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Stuff You Should Know

Remembering Live Aid

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.582.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Live Aid was a revolutionary concert event in two countries in 1985 that spanned the world via satellite. The brainchild of musician Bob Geldof, it really did help change the world in many ways, but its direct impact on Ethiopian famine relief remains in question. Listen and learn today!

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:31.3

Welcome to Step You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.

0:35.1

Hey and welcome to the podcast.

0:42.8

I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and there's Jerry over there and this

0:47.1

is Step You Should Know and I Ask.

0:51.4

I think we should say what just happened off mic because as Jerry does, once every 300

0:58.6

episodes, she realizes what we're recording on and has an actual comment about it.

1:06.8

This is about Live Aid and she went, I was in London when Live Aid happened and Josh

1:12.3

said, did you go?

1:14.1

Jerry said, no, I didn't know what was happening.

1:16.7

Because we forget in 1985, there wasn't an internet blast.

1:20.0

Live Aid was a big deal but little Jerry, little 12 year old Jerry in London didn't know

1:24.8

what's going on.

1:26.3

To get any info, you have to go down to the corner and look at the telephone pole and see

1:30.0

what somebody's stapled there.

1:31.4

Yeah, or go to hear the town cry or on his soapbox and the park.

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