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- A concert held in July 1985 in order to raise money for the ongoing relief effort in Ethiopia
- Organised by Bob Geldof
- Held in Wembley Stadium in London and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia
- Broadcast live and watched by 1.9 billion people globally
- Follow on from 1984 single ‘Do They know it’s Christmas?’ – raised £8 million
- Final figure from this concert was £150 million
THE MUSIC
- Gay rights became more accepted in the Western world – The Gay Liberation Movement
- Women became more prominent in the workplace
- John Lennon is assassinated on December 8th as he walked into his apartment. His murderer had only hours earlier asked for his autograph.
- Less than a year later Bob Marley died from a skin melanoma
- Marvin Gaye is shot dead by his father.
Fashion
- The Mullet and the perm
- Ripped jeans
- Neon clothing
- Shoulder pads
- Denim jackets
- Leather trousers
- Leg warmers
Margaret Thatcher – first female Prime Minister of the Western World
Also known as The Iron Lady
Ronald Reagan
American actor and politician. He was the 40th President of the United States
A conservative icon
Decade of many changes
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/the-80s-the-decade-that-made-us/
- America in a Cold War
- Fear of Communism
- Expanding developing economies such as Japan and West Germany
- International debt crisis
- Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of German reunification
- Start of the AIDS pandemic – protests in America
- Increasing drugs problem in the USA
The 80s
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