With Live Aid celebrating its 25th anniversary on Tuesday, news has now been announced that a TV drama is to be made to portray the work of both Bob Gelfdof and Harvey Goldsmith who successfully planned the historic charity concert.
Live Aid came about through Bob Geldof while he busied himself in helping release the charity single ‘Do They Know its Christmas?’ With the thoughts of arranging a huge charity concert across two continents stored away in his mind, Bob needed some professional help to kick things off.
The drama, which is to be titled ‘When Bob Met Harvey’, stars Ian Hart as Harvey Goldsmith and Domhnall Gleeson as Bob Geldof and will be based around the pair working together to deliver the acts who featured across the two stages. Referred to at the time as music’s odd couple, both scruffy rocker Geldof and powerful pop mogul Goldsmith achieved history in developing the concert from just a mere vision.
Described by the critics as a “hilarious and ultimately deeply moving story of the relationship between a musical odd couple,” the film also features the planning difficulties encountered by Bob and Harvey, mostly being the resistance they faced from acts, their managers and record companies when booking the line-ups.
Alas, the difficulties were overcome and sure enough 1985’s Live Aid turned into a historic triumph raising tens of millions of pounds for charity. Witnessed by a global audience, the concert, which took place at London’s Wembley Stadium and JFK Stadium in stateside Philadelphia, was screened live by the BBC in its entirety, all 16 hours of it!
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