How Bob Dylan’s Live Aid Remark — ‘Pay The Mortgages on Some of the Farms’ — Sparked 40 Years of Activism By Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp & More ...

Forty years ago, at the Live Aid festival in Philadelphia on July 13, 1985, it took Bob Dylan just a few moments to set in motion the music industry’s longest-running concert for a cause ...

While Live Aid did eventually spawn the charity Farm Aid, Dylan’s comment showed he had no grasp of the event’s purpose. “Something so simplistic and crowd-pleasing was beyond belief ...

In 1985, Bob Dylan joined a number of other musicians who played Live Aid. The benefit concert, organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, aimed to raise relief funds for famine in Ethiopia.

Bob Dylan was back on the Farm Aid stage for the first time since the inaugural event in 1985, which was inspired by his off-hand comments at Live Aid a few months earlier about helping family ...

It says something about Bob Dylan’s reputation among his peers that he was chosen as the closing performer for the Philadelphia portion of the Live Aid concert in 1985.

Bob Dylan and Ronnie Wood’s Preparation for Live Aid Wasn’t Easy Bob Dylan had been tasked with playing in a supergroup alongside two members of The Rolling Stones, specifically Ronnie Wood ...

July 13, 1985 – Live Aid, backstage: (top row) Keith Richards, Daryl Hall, John Oates, Ron Wood, (bottom row) Tina Turner, Mick Jagger, Madonna and Bob Dylan, on the cover of People magazine ...