Oz For Africa/Live Aid Simulcast Segment (Australia)- July 14, 1985

A segment from the Australian live simulcast of the 'Live Aid' London and Philadelphia concerts (which commenced 12 hours after the 4 hour 'Oz for Africa' Sydney concert held from 9:00AM Saturday July 13, 1985), which ran continuously between Saturday July 13 and Sunday July 14, commencing at 9:00PM on Saturday July 13, and concluding at 1:00PM on Sunday July 14 Australian Eastern Standard time. This segment aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) channel (which was on the Channel 2 TV band throughout Australia), and was hosted by 'Countdown' Talent Co-Ordinator Ian 'Molly' Meldrum (with a number of guest hosts) on the morning of Sunday July 14. Meldrum also hosted the earlier Oz for Africa concert, and would host the scheduled Countdown episode later that Sunday evening at 6:00PM. Note: Music segments have been edited out in order to avoid copyright issues. For those who wish to see the musical segments, please view the videos at the following YouTube Channel:    / @liveaid   From a VHS recording. Vaxfacts: The Live Aid and Oz for Africa concerts came about from a TV news article from British journalist Michael Buerk about the 1984 famine in Ethiopia:    • Ethiopian Famine (1984) | A Day That Shook...   This article was watched by Boomtown Rats lead singer Bob Geldof, who felt a need to use his musical influence to do something to raise awareness and money for this growing tragedy. This led to a domino effect of world renowned musicians forming musical 'supergroups' to do something about this famine. The first of these 'supergroups' was the British/Irish 'Band Aid', founded by Ultravox lead singer Midge Ure and Bob Geldof (Geldof having contacted Ure about a musical collaboration), who released the December 1984 single 'Do They Know it's Christmas?'. This then lead to the American 'supergroup' 'USA for Africa' (which incidentally stood for 'United Support of Artists for Africa'), who famously released the single 'We Are The World' in February 1985. The third supergroup was the Canadian 'Northern Lights', who released the 1985 single 'Tears Are Not Enough'. There were also other single releases that followed, one being a reggae single released by a joint effort by Jamaican band The Pioneers and UB40 and other artists, the single 'Starvation' (officially the double A-side single 'Starvation/Tam Tam Pour L'Ethiopie'). These efforts ultimately led to the 'Live Aid' global simulcast concerts in London and Philadelphia on July 13, 1985, of which the 'Oz for Africa' Sydney concert was a part of (and began 12 hours before the London leg of the concert, due to time zone differences). The events of that day are summarised at the following link:    • Countdown (Australia)- Humdrum- July 14, 1985