Live Aid 40: Music, power & Unity at the BME

TravelBeat’s partner the British Music Experience, are delighted to announce their new temporary exhibition Live Aid 40: Music, Power & Unity looking at the legendary Live Aid concert 40 years later through some of the personal archive of organiser Bob Geldof.

The ground-breaking concert was planned as a “global jukebox” and a continued response from the music industry and fans to the famine in Ethiopia. The concert was truly global, advances in technology allowed for its broadcast to over 150 countries. 72,000 people attended Wembley Stadium and 90,000 packed into the John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia. Estimates of the global TV audience vary, the highest of which (1.9billion) would have equated to around 40% of the world’s population at the time.

The exhibition will run from 5^th June 2025 to 4^th January 2026.

More information can be found here