Live Aid finally gets DVD release
Live Aid finally gets DVD releaseThe 1985 Live Aid concert, one of the defining events in modern music, is to be released on DVD for the first time.
Organisers will auction the rights to release the DVD after pirate copies were found for sale on the internet.
They are hoping to raise "a few million pounds" for charity and are aiming for a Christmas release.
The concert, split between London and Philadelphia, brought together stars including U2, Queen and Madonna - but has never come out on CD, video or DVD.
Organisers have decided to allow the DVD release after realising bootleggers were making money from it - but none was going to charity.
Geldof (right) met Prince Charles and Princess Diana at Live Aid
Proceeds from the DVD release will go to the Band Aid Trust, which still exists to relieve poverty and hunger in Ethiopia and the surrounding area.
Bob Geldof "sees it as an asset of the people of Ethiopia" that was not being fully utilised, according to fellow founding Band Aid trustee John Kennedy.
"It's a surprise to all of us that we're still here 20 years on spending and receiving money," he told BBC News Online.
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