Live Aid at 40 – Rock ’n’ Roll at its Charitable Finest!

The music industry has a long history of supporting charitable causes with fundraising events including the T.J. Martell Foundation, the United Jewish Appeal, the American Cancer Society, the City of Hope, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and other favorites of the top record and publishing executives. Annual dinners normally have an honoree from the upper ranks of the industry whose company led that year’s fundraising by selling high-dollar dinner tickets, supplying the night’s entertainment, and soliciting ad buys in the dinner program and a Billboard supplement. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been raised for charity in this manner.