Live Aid 1985 - CBC video - The Cars - "Drive"

This is the original Live Aid recording, showing children starving in Ethopia. It is the most distressing film footage I have ever seen.

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[Pat CyCola]

I still cry all these years later as I did on the night this was shown. Im ashamed that I have food left over daily and there are people with none. Too many people to blame (me to) just wish there was a way to get actual help to those in need. Help of the right kind can and should come via UN and GOVs. Wake up world this can be fixed with the right approach.

[Graham Emery]

forget the fucking politics forget the bull shit this is the one piece of film that makes giving to African charitys worthwhile just close your eyes and and think of that kid screaming & think of the woman wrapping her dead child in sacking for burial if you can watcth this as just another music video then you truly are a heartless bastard, this makes me cry even more now than it did i '85 cause nothing has changed

[SmokeyTheParrot]

I agree, this video still upsets me even after so many years.

The most deeply moving video I have ever seen, makes everyday worries seem insignificant. When food is wasted by the family at the dinner table I think of this.

[Richard Clark]

The fact that Lady Gaga has over a billion hits and this one just over 100,000 shows that the world has lost its sense of justice and balance. The rich haven't caused third world poverty, but they could do an awful lot more than they are doing.

[SmokeyTheParrot]

I know one survived

Birhan Woldu, she was a dying child in the video.

She made a guest appearance at the Live 8 Concert 2005.

13th Jan 2010 got engaged and has become a nurse.

[knobber]

Fuked up...nothing changes

[Noel Campbell]

it's amazing that countries geting aid like India still receive aid while developing nuclear weaposn while their citizens are in so much poverty and Pakistan dont want females to have an education. There is something wrong with the world

[nick jarvis]

best video ever and still makes me take a step back wen ive had a bad day

puts me in my place every time

[Janice rooney]

i wish i knew if all those children were ok...

[Ghee Phua]

The only way that this planet and humankind is going to survive is if we see each other as one people. Like the message in John Lennon's song, Imagine, we must over look national boundaries, religion, race...etc.

[LesbianVampireLover]

The ONLY video for this song, as far as I'm concerned. That whole Horn of Africa area has suffered so many droughts and famines that it barely makes the news today.

[Syed Ali]

''However, the aid was not actually used by the Ethiopian government; instead, 56,000 tons of food were left rotting in a port while the forced relocations continued''