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Irish Times
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Bob Geldof: ‘I never read about myself. I can't stand the stupid f**king things I say'
Bob Geldof has yet to sit down to Live Aid at 40 , the BBC's gripping and expletive-filled account of how he wrangled some of the world's biggest pop stars into appearing at the era-defining 1985 charity concerts at Wembley in London and in Philadelphia . 'I never watch anything that I'm in. I never read anything about myself. I can't stand the stupid f**king things I say. I can't stand looking at my crap hair and all that sort of stuff. But I know about it and the response has been amazing. I was in Britain on the 'anniversary day',' he says, referring to Live Aid's 40th 'birthday' on July 13th. 'Even calling it the 'anniversary day' is weird to me.' Live Aid at 40 portrayed Geldof in a largely laudatory light. There were quibbles about the lyrics of the 1984 Band Aid single, Do They Know It's Christmas? Ethiopian politicians were offended by the song's title, explaining that, with their rich history of Christianity, they were perfectly aware of the birth of Jesus. [ Live Aid at 40: Bob Geldof emerges from this less sanitised version of events seeming somehow more admirable Opens in new window ] But the film's wider message was that Geldof had done something extraordinary by cajoling music's brightest lights – most famously Freddie Mercury and Queen – into coming together to raise millions for the victims of the Ethiopian Famine. He is pleased the documentary was well received, and that the anniversary hoopla has refocused attention on the plight of so many in Africa today. 'The nicest thing I read was that the greatest achievement of Live Aid was, in this world of indifference, [it] put poverty in Africa back on the agenda 40 years later.' READ MORE Geldof (73) has a reputation as a garrulous interviewer and someone prone to going off on a tangent. However, he is chatty and considered when talking to The Irish Times ahead of a performance next weekend by his group the Boomtown Rats in Co Waterford. It's possible we've caught him at a good moment. He's out on the road, leading the band on a 50th anniversary tour and playing to packed houses (a new compilation record, The First 50 Years: Songs of Boomtown Glory, follows in September). Though Live Aid and his campaigning have arguably eclipsed the Boomtown Rats' melodic punk pop, music is still his first love – and on stage, he burns with the same anger that has been a defining quality of his band since they played their debut concert on the campus of Bolton Street Institute of Technology in 1975. His rage came from his experience as a young man coming of age in the near-theocracy that was 1970s Ireland. He wasn't the only one to bristle under the dead hand of the Church – but he spoke out about it where others refused to. That need to lash out was the driving force behind the Boomtown Rats' first single, Rat Trap – inspired by his experience working in an abattoir in Dublin and observing how Catholicism and a life of narrowed horizons had beaten down and hollowed out his colleagues. He was only getting started. He and his band were more or less blacklisted from Ireland after Geldof went on The Late Late Show in 1977 and denounced 'medieval-minded clerics and corrupt politicians'. He also had a go at some nuns heckling from the audience – telling them they had 'an easy life with no material worries in return for which they gave themselves body and soul to the church'. The appearance caused a furore – even the unflappable Gay Byrne looked shocked. The Boomtown Rats would not play again in Ireland until 1980. It was a price he was happy to pay – a point he made clear in the 2020 documentary Citizens of Boomtown, released along with a well-reviewed comeback album of the same name. Bob Geldof: 'I have more or less the exact same opinion as everybody else on the disgrace, the horror of Palestine.' Photograph: Chris Hoare/New York Times Geldof performs with The Boomtown Rats at Leixlip Castle in 1980. Photograph: Paddy Whelan 'There was certainly a focused anger with me,' he says today. 'Perhaps less so with some of the others [in the band]. An inchoate undetermined rage was definitely the fuel. If there was this society that was just stuck, and there didn't seem to be any way that it could unstick itself, we would just go – along with hundreds and thousands of others. But in our going we articulated, I think, that rage – either literally in the songs or in the sound we made.' Decades on, a new generation of Irish musicians has taken up the baton – most prominently the Belfast-Derry rap trio Kneecap and Dublin/Mayo indie band Fontaines DC, who have advocated fiercely on behalf of Gaza. Does he see something of himself and the Boomtown Rats in those artists? [ Citizens of Boomtown: 'Bob Geldof drove me out of my f***ing mind' Opens in new window ] 'As I said, rock'n roll is essentially an articulation of the hitherto inexpressible. If there's something bothering you and you're inherently musical it will find its way. And it is something that seems to catch the zeitgeist. That's why these things become popular. The attitude of Fontaines and Kneecap ... there's a direct line back to Little Richard. It's corny and obvious but it's true.' The distinction, he believes, is that music is no longer at the centre of the culture of protest. It isn't that bands today care any less than their predecessors or that their fans are any less invested. But society no longer looks to music for answers in the way it once did. 'The difference is that ... this is contentious, but why not? I think that rock'n'roll as the spine of the culture was a 50-year phenomenon,' he says. 'In my lifetime rock'n roll was the arbiter of the social dialogue. The role of music has been taken by social media. Pop was our social media.' Everything changed in the early 21st century, he believes. The internet assumed dominance, and music became just another art form rather than a lightning rod for dissent and challenging the status quo. Bob Geldof and Darren Beale of The Boomtown Rats on stage at the Exit Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia, earlier this month. Photograph:'The year 2004 was when Google first made a profit. And 2004 was when this new thing appeared called Facebook. From that point on [music reverted to being] like music in the 1920s, '30s, '40s. Brilliant artists, brilliant writers, wonderful music. Fantastic songs. 'That doesn't mean music has lost all meaning. Just that it is no longer a pillar of social protest. You will always remember the feeling when you first kissed a girl, first kissed a boy. That will always be there,' he continues. '[But] it's been taken over by social media. Social media will take what a band has to say and amplify it. But then again social media is not a broad technology, it is an isolationist technology. So it has less impact. And while these bands make great music and they are fantastic bands, I'm not sure it will have the resonances that pop once had.' Geldof grew up in Dún Laoghaire, Dublin. His mother died of a brain haemorrhage when he was seven, and he was raised by his father, who managed restaurants around Dublin. The singer later attributed what The Irish Times once described as his 'premature independence' and habit of pushing back against the status quo to the absence of a mother and his father's long working hours. Having left Ireland and taken on various jobs in Cambridgeshire and Canada, he returned home and founded the Boomtown Rats in 1975. After one of their early gigs, a woman walked up and asked if she could sleep with him – an exchange he had never imagined possible in 1970s Ireland. At that moment, he understood that being a rock star could change his life. Relocating to London, the band had huge success with singles such as I Don't Like Mondays. The country myself and the Rats left was a very closed society, which ultimately led to a highly degenerate political body — Bob Geldof Geldof entered a relationship with TV presenter Paula Yates . They had three daughters and eventually tied the knot, though the marriage fell apart after Yates embarked on an affair with Michael Hutchence of INXS, with whom she had another daughter. Hutchence died by suicide in 1997. Yates suffered a fatal heroin overdose in 2000. In April 2014 there was further tragedy when Geldof and Yates's 25-year-old daughter Peaches died , also of a drug overdose. In a statement, Geldof said the family was 'beyond pain'. Geldof is widely admired, but he is not above criticism. After Live Aid, he was accused of encouraging a White Saviour attitude towards Africa. The naysayers have included Ed Sheeran who said last year that his vocals were added to a new remix of Do They Know It's Christmas? without his permission. His contribution was taken from a 2014 version of the song, and Sheeran said that, were he asked to participate today, he would decline. He quoted an Instagram post by singer Fuse ODG, who said undertakings such as Live Aid 'perpetuate damaging stereotypes that stifle Africa's economic growth, tourism and investment, ultimately … destroying its dignity, pride and identity'. Geldof and Paula Yates in 1979. Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images Live Aid: Geldof and fellow musicians on stage at Wembley in 1985. Photograph: BBC/Brook Lapping/Mirrorpix/Getty Geldof, along with his contemporary Bono, has also been attacked for staying 'quiet' about Gaza. Last year, singer Mary Coughlan said: 'We all saved the world when Bob and Bono were talking about saving the world, and I couldn't understand what was different about this situation in Gaza. Why would they would be so quiet about it?' 'Well of course I have opinions, like anybody,' he says of Gaza, adding that, as a trustee of the Band Aid Charitable Trust, his work with Africa is his primary focus. 'Whether I like it or not, I am associated with Africa. I've spent 40 years … Every day, I wake to at least 10 Band Aid emails about the latest situation. [The charity is] still building hospitals or … dealing with children Sudan. Or dealing with the ruined bodies of gang-raped women … And trying to give them some semblance of a future life. That's what I wake to every morning and have done for 40 years,' says Geldof. 'So you'll forgive me when I speak I stay focused on that where I know from whence I speak. I can literally do something about that. I have obviously more or less the exact same opinion as everybody else on the disgrace, the horror of Palestine. And, as you know, the answer to the issue of Palestine – it's not as if it's unresolvable. It is a two-state solution. And one way or the other that will ultimately occur. ' He points out that in 1984, nobody was taking a public stand about the famine in Ethiopia. He was the first musician with a platform to do so. Today, there is a chorus of voices about Gaza. 'There was an opportunity to give a focus point,' he said of Live Aid. 'There are plenty of focus points with regard to Palestine. But nothing is going to happen there until the wanton killing is stopped.' What about the argument that Ireland and Britain have flipped positions since Geldof was an angry young man? Once hidebound by religion, the Republic has blossomed into a poster child for progressive values – or so we like to tell ourselves. Meanwhile it has become voguish to paint post-Brexit UK as a wasteland of hollowed-out town centres and red-faced men in Wetherspoons complaining about refugees. [ The unsung Irishman behind Live Aid. Not Bono, not Bob, but Paddy Opens in new window ] 'I'd be wary of the starting point with regards to Britain ... It's a dynamic and creative country. Regardless of what you think, it's still the seventh biggest economy on the planet. In Ireland's case, it is transformative. I come back to what I always thought the country could be. That is not to say I don't know very well indeed the contemporary issues. I follow it rigorously and avidly. My family are in Ireland. I'm back all the time. I follow the politics etc. Having said that, the country myself and the Rats left [was] a very closed society, which ultimately led to a highly degenerate political body.' Bono makes an interesting point in the Live Aid documentary about he and Geldof, being Irish, having a folk memory of the Famine. Geldof wasn't aware of Bono's comments – as he says, he didn't watch the series. But he does wonder if being Irish did help put a fire under him. In one scene in the BBC film, he browbeats Margaret Thatcher into essentially removing VAT from Do They Know It's Christmas? He looks her straight in the eyes and talks without fear or deference – something it's hard to imagine even the most ardent English punk rocker doing. [ Live Aid spurred me into becoming a GOAL volunteer on the ground in Africa Opens in new window ] 'One of my pet theories is that punk is largely the product of the first generation of the Windrush people [ie migrants to Britain from the Caribbean] and the first generation of the 1950s mass migration out of Ireland. I don't think it's an accident you had Elvis Costello, Shane MacGowan, George O'Dowd [aka Boy George], Johnny Lydon, Morrissey, Johnny Marr, the Gallagher brothers. A very antsy attitude. Then you had the actual Irish like us. Some of us were friends some of us weren't – rivals or whatever. I always got on really well with Johnny. We always seemed to get on well with each other. Did it make a difference with Live Aid? I don't think anyone was surprised it came out of the Irish community.' The Boomtown Rats play All Together Now at Curraghmore Estate, Co Waterford, over the August bank holiday weekend. The First 50 Years: Songs of Boomtown Glory is released September 19th
Yahoo
6 days ago
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- Yahoo
Fans Praise Miranda Lambert for Meaningful Career Move: 'This is Amazing'
Fans Praise Miranda Lambert for Meaningful Career Move: 'This is Amazing' originally appeared on Parade. revealed on July 18 that she was teaming up with fellow singer and a bunch of other major names for a special project called the Band Together Texas charity concert. Along with Lambert and McCollum, others like , Cody Johnson, Ronnie Dunn, Lyle Lovett and more are set to perform at the big event, with all proceeds benefitting the Community Foundation of Texas Hill Country and the Central Texas Community Foundation. There will also be appearances by major celebrities like and Dennis Quaid. 🎬 Lambert shared the official poster alongside her announcement, writing, "Texans helping Texas. My buddy @parkermccollum and I have called up some good friends to help our home state rebuild. Let's band together y'all. ❤️🤍💙." She included information about the concert, adding, "Presale registration is open now through Monday, July 21 at 5pm CT. Register at to get your code." The concert is an effort to help Texas after the devastating floods. It will take place in Austin, Texas at the Moody Center on Aug. 17. Fans were in full support of the project, praising Lambert's caring heart in the comments. "Love this! hell of a lineup! texas strong 💪🏼💖," wrote one fan, as others shared similar replies like "This is amazing! 👏," "Love y'all for doing this. 🤍🤍🤍," and "I love your heart ❤️." Another chimed in, saying, "💕Love this! An amazing group of artists bringing Texas together!🙏🩵🤍🩵🤍🥹." More fans cheered on the group of musical artists involved, saying, "Wow! Nice lineup!" while one spotlighted Clarkson's inclusion, commenting, "Im already looking forward to what you and Kelly might be up to 🔥🙌❤️."Fans Praise Miranda Lambert for Meaningful Career Move: 'This is Amazing' first appeared on Parade on Jul 18, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jul 18, 2025, where it first appeared. Solve the daily Crossword
Daily Mail
23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Ozzy Osbourne's final act of generosity is revealed after hellraising rocker's death aged 76
Black Sabbath's final performance is said to have raised £140million for charity just two weeks before the band's frontman Ozzy Osbourne died yesterday aged 76. The gig in Birmingham on July 5 saw all profits equally split between Birmingham Children's Hospital, Acorns Children's Hospice and the Cure Parkinson's charity. Following the concert, its director Tom Morello revealed the charities would share the money which included revenue from livestreams and merchandising. The Rage Against the Machine musician wrote on Instagram: 'Back to the Beginning'. More than 190 million dollars will be donated to houses and hospitals for children.' If true, this meant Osbourne's gig raised the most money for any charity concert on record when not adjusted for inflation, according to US music magazine Billboard. It came after George Harrison and Ravi Shankar's Concert for Bangladesh in 1971 raised £180,000 for Unicef and popularised the idea of an all-star benefit show. The benchmark for charity gigs is widely seen as Sir Bob Geldof's Live Aid in 1985, with estimates of how much it raised varying between £40million and £114million. Many will also remember the America: A Tribute to Heroes charity telethon two weeks after 9/11 in 2001 which raised £95million for the victims of the attacks. Another major concert was the eight-hour livestreamed One World: Together at Home, which organisers Global Citizen said raised £94million for Covid relief efforts. Heavy metal singer Osbourne - who was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2019 - was reunited with fellow original Sabbath members Tony Iommi, Terence 'Geezer' Butler and Bill Ward on stage at Villa Park football stadium for a final performance. The band were the last to appear on stage as part of a star-studded line-up for the 'Back to the Beginning' concert, barely two miles from the Crown pub where they first played their first gig together more than half a century ago in 1968. A Birmingham Children's Hospital spokesman said last night: 'We're so very sad to hear the news of Ozzy Osbourne's passing. Ozzy had an incredible career and life, but never forgot his Brummie roots. 'Our hospital was extremely lucky to have his support over the years and most recently with his iconic final performance, which will leave a lasting legacy for our sick kids. Our thoughts are with Sharon and the whole Osbourne family. Our hospital has lost a friend, Birmingham a son and the world a musical legend.' And an Acorns Children's Hospice spokesman said: 'We are deeply saddened by the passing of Ozzy Osbourne and send our heartfelt condolences to Sharon and the entire Osbourne family at this incredibly difficult time. 'Ozzy was more than a global rock icon – he was a true son of Birmingham whose legacy transcended music. As the frontman of Black Sabbath, he not only pioneered a genre and inspired generations, he carried the pride of Birmingham and the West Midlands with him on every world stage he performed. 'For us at Acorns, Ozzy's generosity and compassion will never be forgotten. His decision, alongside Black Sabbath and Sharon Osbourne, to support Acorns during their unforgettable 'Back to the Beginning' show at Villa Park was a moment of pure magic. 'It was a tribute not only to their extraordinary musical journey, but to the community that shaped them – a community we are proud to serve every day. 'That night and in the weeks since, thanks to Ozzy, our children's hospice care has been embraced by people across the world. Families who so often can feel unseen have been celebrated by millions.' At the start of his solo performance on July 5, Osbourne entered the stage by rising on a large black throne through a trap door, wearing his signature black attire and thick eye make-up. He started the set by saying: 'Let me hear you. Are you ready? Let the madness begin!' Later, he told the crowd: 'It's so good to be on this f***ing stage. You have no idea. I f***ing love you all. Let me see your hands in the air. You are the best, each and every one of you. God bless you all.' In an emotional moment, he added: 'I don't know what to say, man, I've been laid up for, like, six years. You have no idea how I feel - thank you from the bottom of my heart. You're all f****** special. Let's go crazy, come on.' The rocker sang five songs in his own set, with fans waving torches from their phones during Mama, I'm Coming Home. He finished his performance with Crazy Train, before confetti rained over a packed Villa Park. After a short break, he re-entered the stage to join the rest of Black Sabbath for the first time in 20 years. The band performed some of their greatest hits, ending with a rendition of Paranoid. Fans chanted 'Ozzy, Ozzy, Ozzy' as the rock great thanked and blew kisses to those in attendance, before departing in an emotional ending to cap an illustrious career on stage. It capped a day-long metal festival that included performances from Anthrax, Metallica and Guns N´Roses. Artists who sent plaudits and well-wishes included Jack Black, Dolly Parton and Sir Elton John. Personal videos from dozens of fans were also broadcast at the event, in which they credited Osbourne and Black Sabbath for inventing heavy metal and thanked them for their generational influence on music.
Fox News
23-07-2025
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- Fox News
Ozzy Osbourne's legendary final performance raised a staggering $190M for worthy causes
Ozzy Osbourne's final concert earlier this month raised around $190 million for several charities, according to multiple news outlets. The rocker, who died Tuesday after battling a number of health issues, performed his final concert, "Back to the Beginning," July 5. Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello, the event's musical director, wrote on social media of the concert, "'Back to the Beginning' More than 190 million dollars will be donated to houses and hospitales [sic] for children. Boom. We set out to not just create the greatest day in the history of heavy metal," according to The Independent. The proceeds will go to Cure Parkinson's, Birmingham Children's Hospital and Acorn Children's Hospice. "THANKYOU @ozzyosbourne for trusting me to be the Musical Director of the 'Back To The Beginning' show," he wrote on Instagram. "It was over a year of hard work but heavy metal was the music that made me love music and it was a labor of love. We raised a ton of money for a great cause and so many great musicians & bands & fans all over the world paid tribute to the ALL TIME greats." Osbourne told The Independent in 2022, "I will get back on stage if it f----- kills me, because if I can't do it then that's what's gonna happen anyway, I'm gonna f------ die. I love to see them audiences." The charity concert was the highest-grossing of all time, according to Billboard. Osbourne played with Black Sabbath during the Birmingham, U.K., and bands like Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Slayer, Tool, Pantera, Halestorm, Alice In Chains, Lamb of God, Anthrax, Mastodon and Gojira also performed. The concert lasted around 10 hours and culminated with Osbourne singing with the original lineup of Black Sabbath while seated on a throne. Osbourne struggled with his health in the last few years of his life and was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 2003. The Black Sabbath frontman admitted he couldn't walk anymore on a Jan. 29 episode of his Sirius XM show, "Ozzy Speaks." "I may be moaning about how I can't walk, but I look down the road, and there's people that didn't do half as much as me, and they didn't make it," he said at the time. In 2003, Osbourne was in a serious ATV accident when his quad flipped onto him while he was riding around his London estate. In 2022, the "Mama I'm Coming Home" singer underwent surgery to remove and realign pins in his neck and back. Ozzy's back problems likely stemmed from the all-terrain vehicle collision. At the time, he underwent emergency surgery for "a broken collarbone (and) eight fractured ribs that were pinching crucial blood vessels and damaged vertebrae in his neck." "I'm just waiting on some more surgery on my neck," he told Classic Rock magazine in May 2022. "I can't walk properly these days. I have physical therapy every morning. I am somewhat better, but nowhere near as much as I want to be to go back on the road." Fox News Digital has reached out to reps for Osbourne and Morello for comment.
Yahoo
17-07-2025
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- Yahoo
Ozzy Osbourne & Black Sabbath's Final Show Is the Highest-Grossing Charity Concert of All Time
Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath's 'Back to the Beginning' raised more money than any charity concert since George Harrison and Ravi Shankar's 1971 Concert for Bangladesh popularized the very idea of an all-star benefit show, according to a review of Billboard's coverage over the years. More from Billboard KATSEYE to Embark on First-Ever Tour: 'The Moment We've Been Dreaming Of' Yungblud Pays for Fans' Drinks to 'Make It Up' to Them After Postponing 2 Shows The Rapture Returns With a Tour After 'a Lot of Personal Healing Over the Years': Here Are the Dates The heavy metal show, billed as Osbourne's final stage performance, will donate roughly $190 million (140 million British pounds) to charity, according to an Instagram post from the event's musical director, Tom Morello. According to statements from the group and its charity partners, the concert, watched by 40,000 ticketholders and 5.8 million individuals online, will distribute funds equally to Birmingham Children's Hospital, Acorn Children's Hospice and Cure Parkinson's — an organization dedicated to finding a cure for the disease Osbourne has lived with since 2019. It is unclear yet what the final donation to each charity will be. Each of those charities said they were able to raise tens of thousands of pounds in additional donations by raffling off tickets to the show, auctioning off iconic art and band photographs donated by Black Sabbath, and through individual contributions from fans as they streamed into the concert, which took place at Villa Park in Birmingham, England on July 5. While impossible to fact-check so soon after the event, that figure surpasses the amount raised by many of the highest-profile charity concerts of all time, according to a review of Billboard's coverage over the years, not adjusted for inflation. Notably, reports from Billboard and other media outlets have relied on figures provided by people affiliated with these concerts, as promoters are not required to publish the total funds raised or how much is deducted to cover expenses. We will strive to update this list with more and better information as we get it. Email ediltsmarshall@ with any tips. Here's a list of some of the highest-grossing charity concerts of all time not adjusted for inflation, according to each event's organizers. Update: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated Morello also posted on Instagram that the show raised $140 million. Morello's earlier Instagram post stated the event raised 140 million British pounds. A line has also been added to clarify that the funds raised at prior charity concerts is not adjusted for inflation. America: A Tribute to HeroesAmerica: A Tribute to Heroes was a charity telethon held less than two weeks after the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentago on September 11, 2001. The event raised $129 million–no money was deducted for expenses– for the September 11th Fund, which worked to help 'meet the immediate and long-term needs of victims, families, and communities affected,' according to the fund's archives. With performances from artists like Bruce Springsteen, U2, Sting and Stevie Wonder, the telethon was shown on 35 separate broadcast and cable networks simultaneously in the U.S. and watched by just under 60 million viewers there. FireAidFireAid, the five-hour-long mega-concert that featured performances by Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga and Green Day in January 2025, raised more than $100 million for victims of the Los Angeles wildfires that killed 29 people and destroyed more than 16,000 homes earlier that same month. The group began distributing the first $50 million worth of grants to community-based organizations in February. Live AidLive Aid festival, held on July 13, 1985, at Wembley Stadium in London and JFK Stadium in Philadelphia and broadcast live to an estimated 1 billion viewers in 110 countries, raised roughly $100 million for famine relief in the countries of Ethiopia and Sudan. Live Aid organizer Bob Geldof raised another $10 million for those ravaged by famine before the festival through the release of 'Do They Know It's Christmas?', the best-selling British single that featured U2 and Phil Collins. An additional $60 million was raised for the cause through the release of 'We Are The World,' written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie. Farm AidWillie Nelson's Farm Aid, the music industry's longest-running charity concert that launched in 1985 to support family farmers hurt by the downturn in the market value of American crops, has raised more than $80 million to support family farmers over the past 40 years. In the 1980s, hundreds of thousands of American farms filed for bankruptcy, with the bankruptcy rate among farmers in 1987 topping the rate just before the Great Depression, U.S.D.A. filings show. According to Billboard, among the first funds dispersed from the charity was a $100,000 check Nelson wrote to a church group that used the money to feed farm families. Hope for Haiti NowOrganized by George Clooney and Haiti-born rapper Wyclef Jean, 'Hope for Haiti Now' was a telethon that raised more than $57 million for the island country after the devastating magnitude-7 quake that killed some 200,000 people and left 3 million hurt or homeless in January 2010. Artists like Stevie Wonder, Jay-Z and Chris Martin performed songs as celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicole Kidman took donations by phone. Proceeds from the fundraiser were distributed through the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, the U.N. World Food Program, Oxfam America, the Red Cross, UNICEF and Yele Haiti Foundation. Concert for BangladeshThe Concert for Bangladesh was actually a pair of sold-out Madison Square Garden shows organized by former Beatles guitarist Harrison and Indian sitar player Shankar, intended to raise funds for refugees of the conflict in East Pakistan during its fight for independence. Held on Aug. 1, 1971, the concert raised close to $250,000 from the 40,000 tickets sold to the event. However, by 1985, the event had sent, via UNICEF, an estimated $12 million to Bangladesh through revenue raised from a live album and film, Concert for Bangladesh. One Love ManchesterOne Love Manchester, Ariana Grande's all-star benefit concert held for the victims of the May 22, 2017, terror attack after the singer's show at Manchester Arena, raised $12 million when it was held the month following the event. That amount included $3 million (£2.35 million) raised for the British Red Cross and $9 million (£7.3 million) raised for the Manchester Emergency Fund. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart Solve the daily Crossword
