Live Aid was a dual-venue
concert held on 13 July 1985, and an ongoing music-based fundraising initiative. The original event was organised by
Bob Geldof and
Midge Ure to raise funds for relief of the ongoing
Ethiopian famine. Billed as the "global jukebox", the event was held simultaneously at
Wembley Stadium in
London, England, United Kingdom (attended by 72,000 people) and
John F. Kennedy Stadium in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (attended by about 100,000 people). On the same day, concerts inspired by the initiative happened in other countries, such as
Australia and
Germany. It was one of the largest-scale satellite link-ups and television broadcasts of all time: an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion, across 150 nations, watched the live broadcast.