Band Aid - Michael Buerk’s Original Report

On 23 October 1984, Bob Geldof, lead singer of the new wave/pallid punk band ‘The Boomtown Rats’, was sitting down watching the BBC News, when up popped the legendary reporter Michael Buerk with a report on the plight of millions of people starving to death in Ethiopia. The impact of Buerk’s report cannot be underestimated: it allegedly left Geldof (like many people in the UK) in tears, both angry with the world for standing by at such a time and determined that he should be the one to do something about it.

To see Michael Buerk’s original report, click here.

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