The Story of Live Aid

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How one scruffy Irish popstar saw a terrible famine being reported on his television and decided to do a bit more than just send a cheque to Oxfam. (John spent so long researching this podcast on Live Aid that he thought he might as well do a West End Musical about it at the same time).

Reading List:

The Eighties, One Day, One Decade by Dylan Jones;

Is That It by Bob Geldof

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