We still talk about Live Aid today because it was an outsized, outrageous event designed to shake people awake by its sheer magnitude and audacity. It was very effective in raising awareness for the underlying cause, and woke many people to action or at least donation to support the effort to ease the burden of those who were (are) suffering. It was a highly honorable move, coming from anybody. It was in response to a human problem, and the people who undertook Live Aid were as human, whatever their color, as the famine victims. People of color from within Africa had indeed raised their voices to seek such support in the political arena, but couldn’t push the message effectively to such a broad western audience In 1985.
We still talk about Live Aid today because it was an outsized, outrageous event designed to shake people awake by its sheer magnitude and audacity. It was very effective in raising awareness for the underlying cause, and woke many people to action or at least donation to support the effort to ease the burden of those who were (are) suffering. It was a highly honorable move, coming from anybody. It was in response to a human problem, and the people who undertook Live Aid were as human, whatever their color, as the famine victims. People of color from within Africa had indeed raised their voices to seek such support in the political arena, but couldn’t push the message effectively to such a broad western audience In 1985.