# Are there any Dopers who attended either Live Aid show?

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**Created:** [July 12, 2025, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-dopers-who-attended-either-live-aid-show/1020804 "2025-07-12T23:05:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-dopers-who-attended-either-live-aid-show/1020804/1 "2025-07-12T23:05:10Z")

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CNN is doing a big 40-year memorial broadcast. Good concerts, but boy, did that money cause more problems than it solved.

Farm Aid followed, and still continues! IIRC the money generally goes to things like scholarships for children of farmers.