LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The story behind Irish rock star Bob Geldof's
global Live Aid concert to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia is
being made into a TV film, the BBC said on Wednesday.
The 1985 concert, organized by Geldof and music promoter Harvey
Goldsmith, reached an estimated 1.5 billion people and did much to raise
the public and political profile of those suffering from poverty,
starvation and disease in Africa.
Filming has already begun in Dublin for the 90-minute drama "When Harvey
met Bob," which follows the story from the moment Geldof arrived home
to find his then girlfriend Paula Yates holding their baby and weeping
as she watched television footage from feeding camps in Eritrea.