Concert Details
Due to time zone differences the Oz for Africa concert began twelve hours before the Wembley Stadium, London leg and was thus the first Live Aid concert.
Oz for Africa was organized by furniture dealer Bill Gordon and music producer Brian de Courcy, in co-operation with Geldof and the Band Aid trust. Gordon sold his furniture business to use the cash to support the concert. It was compered by Ian Meldrum, musical director of Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s TV pop show Countdown.
The four-hour concert / telethon was broadcast on two Australian television networks Channel 7 and Channel 9. Sections of it were seen internationally during the world-wide live broadcast of Live Aid, some songs by INXS were shown on BBC in UK and other songs by Men at Work and Little River Band in United States on ABC. An edited version of Oz for Africa was broadcast on MTV from late at night on 12 July. Two INXS songs from the BBC broadcast are contained on Live Aid's four DVD boxed set released in 2004.
About 11,000 spectators paid $18.50 each, in order to see Oz for Africa. The concert / telethon and the associated Sport Aid Oz raised ten million Australian dollars for the International Disaster Emergency Committee in Australia.
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