Echo & the Bunnymen guitarist Will Sergeant posed for a photo with U2 singer Bono despite the band's past rivalry.

The Edge, of course, tells the story slightly differently, saying that it only took him a couple of days away from U2 to realise “this stuff was bullshit,” but still: the deliberation itself almost ...

Forty years after Live Aid, U2’s Bono recalled the ‘bad hair day’ he had at the charity concert in 1985. ‘One of the most ...

In the new documentary “Live Aid: When Rock ‘n’ Roll Took on the World” documentary, Bono admitted that he regrets his hair ...

Forty years after Live Aid rocked the world, Evelyn O'Rourke looks at ten ways the music event of a lifetime made musical ...

All told, U2 has released 15 studio albums and more than 84 singles. U2 has won 22 Grammy Awards, a record for a rock band, and two Golden Globes for Best Original Song ("The Hands That America Built" ...

July 13, 1985 — everyone who was anyone in the music world was at Live Aid, the benefit concert for Ethiopian famine relief.

The other programmes are more chatty but his Monday-to-Friday gig, Dave Fanning on RTÉ Gold, is just about the music. Across ...

"They didn't invite us so we did our own thing," he says. "We made ourselves proud that we could put in whatever small fee to ...

In a post on his social media pages Sadler discusses the recent loss of both his father and older sister to cancer and that ...

Though often seen as a moment of unity, the trans-Atlantic concert for famine relief in Ethiopia wasn't devoid of cultural blind spots. What is today's view of the global gig that made history?

Live Aid did raise millions for famine relief, with some political ripple effects. It inspired the set-up of the US President ...