40 years in the past, on July 13, 1985, musicians and activists Bob Geldof and Midge Ure pulled off a seemingly not possible feat: two simultaneous concert events, held on two completely different continents, that includes the largest musical acts on earth — and all for a very good trigger.
Dwell Support grew out of Geldof and Ure’s work organizing the recording of “Do They Know It’s Christmas,” a star-studded 1984 single that raised funds for the Ethiopian famine. The track stayed on the high of the UK charts for 5 weeks and raised £8 million, which far exceeded the musicians’ expectations — and made them start to surprise what else they might pull off.