The Schedule of LIVE AID

Schedule of Acts

• In London's Wembly Stadium:
• 7 am: Bob Geldolf opens Live Aid; Status Quo; Style Council; Boomtown Rats with Adam Ant.
• 8 am: Adam Ant; Ultravox; Spandau Ballet.
• 9 am: Elvis Costello; Nik Kershaw with Billy Conally; Sade.
• 10 am: Phil Collins with Julian Lennon; Sting with Howard Jones.
• 11 am: Bryan Ferry; Paul Young with Alison Moyet. 12:30 pm: U2.
• 1 pm: Dire Straits; Queen.
• 2 pm: David Bowie.
• 3 pm: The Who; Elton John.
• 4 pm: Wham! ; Paul McCartney.
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• In Philadephia's JFK Stadium:
• 9 am: Joan Baez; The Hooters; The Four Tops; Billy Ocean.
• 10 am: Black Sabbath with Ozzy Osbourne; Run-DMC; Rick Springfield; REO Speedwagon.
• 11 am: Crosby, Stills, Nash; Judas Priest.
• 12 pm: Bryan Adams; The Beach Boys.
• 1 pm: George Thorogood; Queens Performance from London.
• 2 pm: Music video featuring David Bowie and Mick Jagger; Simple Minds; The Pretenders.
• 3 pm: Santana with Pat Metheny; Ashford and Simpson with Teddy Pendergrass.
• 4:30 pm: Madonna; Rod Stewart. 5 pm: Tom Petty; Kenny Loggins; The Cars.
• 6 pm: Neil Young; Power Station. 7 pm: Thompson Twins; Eric Clapton.
• 8 pm: Phil Collins with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page; Duran Duran.
• 9 pm: Patti LaBelle; Daryll Hall and John Oats with Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin.
• 10 pm: Mick Jagger; Jagger with Tina Turner; Bob Dylan.

Trivia: The Live Aid Concerts were held on July 13, 1985, in London and Philadelphia. Phil Collins was able to play both. He played London in the morning, and then took the Concorde to Philadelphia to play the evening there.

Trivia: In London, a traffic light was set up just offstage to keep the performers within their allotted time. The traffic light would signal green when the performer had just just five minutes left to play, then yellow when two minutes were left, and red when it was time to leave. The performers kept to their time limits so well that the concert was often running as much as 15 minutes ahead of schedule.