40th anniversary: How 1985 Live Aid concert ‘saved’ Philadelphia

From CNN.

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Live Aid, US promoter Larry Magid sat down to explain why Philadelphia was selected for the 1985 concert that raised tens of billions of dollars for famine relief in Ethiopia.

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