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Lesson Topic
Using Music to Bring Awareness & Assistance to People & Places in Need
Lesson Outline
In the 1980s, musicians around the world continue to use their art and their fame to bring attention and assistance to important issues impacting our global community. Live Aid was a benefit concert and a music-based fundraising initiative held in July 1985. Concerts held simultaneously in England and the US aimed to raise funds for relief of the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia. Billed as the "global jukebox", Live Aid was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London, UK, attended by about 72,000 people and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, US, attended by 89,484 people. The "Live Aid" concert was officially opened by Princess Diana and Prince Charles. The concerts in England and the U.S. raised $127 million to combat famine in Africa. We viewed some clips from this historic event. On the same day, concerts inspired by the initiative were held in other countries, such as the USSR, Canada, Japan, Yugoslavia, Austria, Australia and West Germany. It was one of the largest satellite link-ups and television broadcasts of all time; an estimated audience of 1.9 billion, in 150 nations, watched the live broadcast, nearly 40 percent of the world population!
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Session Hours
1.00
Hours Attended
1.00
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