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|title=The Eighties: One Day, One Decade

|sort=Eighties: One Day, One Decade, The

|publisher=Preface

|date=June 2013

|summary=A detailed, thoroughly engrossing account of of the Live Aid Concert on 13 July 1985, encapsulating a musical, social and cultural history of the decade as well as the build-up to the show, its aftermath and its effect on the world since then

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Most of us can count on the fingers of two hands, perhaps only one, a select few special days when it was as if the eyes of the world were focused on one major event. These include 9/11; the day Princess Diana was killed; and for those of us with even longer memories the day Kennedy was shot. Add to that grim litany an event which had far more positive results.