Overview
- CNN’s four-part documentary “Live Aid: When Rock ‘n’ Roll Took on the World” will debut at 9 p.m. ET/PT on July 13, 2025.
- The first episode revisits the July 1985 concerts at Wembley Stadium and JFK Stadium, with the second installment exploring the origins of the 1984 Band Aid single on July 20.
- Newly unearthed archival footage captures the stark reality of Ethiopia’s famine and includes a moving reunion with a survivor profiled as a child during the original broadcasts.
- Bob Geldof’s candid reflections are supplemented by fresh interviews with artists including Bono, Sting, Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor, plus Ultravox’s Midge Ure.
- Episodes airing July 27 and August 3 will spotlight the hurdles of the 16-satellite global broadcast and trace the evolution of the cause into Live 8 in 2005.