Live 8 - How They Did It

Twenty years ago Live Aid attracted 162,000 people to watch 52 acts perform at two venues before a global audience of 1.5 billion. At the time it seemed profoundly impressive. Even accounting for the gloss of nostalgia, today it feels old-world; dwarfed by this colossus two decades on.

We may never see its like again. Two thirds of the world's population, watching it live, on television, on the internet, listening on the radio - united for a few delirious hours in a great act of mass compassion.

The Manchester Guardian has this Inside story of the miracle show