LomondLad

By LomondLad

It was 20 years ago today...

Well, strictly speaking, Live8 Edinburgh was 20-years-and-one-week ago today. A culmination of the Make Poverty History campaign to try persuading the leaders of the then-G8 nations to reduce the aid debt of the world’s poorest nations.
How fortunate I was to get tickets for that in the ballot!
 
It of course followed on 20 years from the original Live Aid concert, which was exactly 40 years ago today. 
I’ve enjoyed the new 3-part documentary on the BBC looking at the concerts.
 
It’s one of my life regrets (I don’t have many) that I never went to Live Aid when I possibly could have. I recall that tickets [when you had to go and queue for them, unlike the online challenges nowadays] were being sold at the Glasgow Apollo box office (maybe other record shops too), but the concert was only announced a few weeks beforehand by which point I was already committed to (and had paid for) going away with some colleagues for a weekend arranged through our work’s sports & social committee. 
If I hadn’t already paid for that, maybe I would have been in Wembley Stadium 40 years ago, instead of listening to it on a radio in a sunny park in Loughborough! 
Thankfully, my sister was watching it at home, and I had a handful of VHS tapes to come back to, so could watch it all a couple of days later.

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