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BBC Report Inspires Bob Geldof, Band Aid, & Live Aid, Moscow Theater Takeover Ends Very Badly: Music History Today In Depth Podcast

BBC Report Inspires Bob Geldof, Band Aid, & Live Aid, Moscow Theater Takeover Ends Very Badly: Music History Today In Depth Podcast

Update: 2025-10-211
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On this week's episode of the Music History In Depth Podcast, a BBC News report on the Ethiopian famine inspires Bob Geldof to create Band Aid & Live Aid, we discuss a hostage ordeal during a musical that ended badly, a law that to this day has seriously annoying implications for everyone, & how flipping a marketing plan around led to a Broadway concept album. 



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BBC Report Inspires Bob Geldof, Band Aid, & Live Aid, Moscow Theater Takeover Ends Very Badly: Music History Today In Depth Podcast

BBC Report Inspires Bob Geldof, Band Aid, & Live Aid, Moscow Theater Takeover Ends Very Badly: Music History Today In Depth Podcast

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