How a Bob Dylan moment 40 years ago sparked decades of pop philanthropy

It was 1985, and improvised empathy was cool. News reports of families starving to death in drought-stricken Ethiopia were enough to move the lead singer of the Boomtown Rats to assemble a British supergroup to help save them. Bob Geldof, Band Aid and “Do They Know It’s Christmas” helped inspire Q...

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