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I've been remembering Live Aid today watching "When Harvey met Bob". It's a one off Â鶹ԼÅÄ drama about what happened when music promoter Harvey Goldsmith and Boomtown Rat Bob Geldof created theÌýnow iconicÌýLive Aid concert.

Billed as the Oddest of Odd Couples, Domhnall Gleeson and Ian Harte put in remarkable performances as respectively Bob and Harvey. Both seem to inhabit the characters rather than just doing a caricature.

What were you doing on the 13th July 1985? I remember being glued to the tv that day in our house in Derry.ÌýFrom the Quo opening with Rockin all over the World to Bruce Springsteen hooking up from Philadelphia it was the biggest day in my youthful rock memory.

I still have the 7 inch vinyl record of "Do they know it's Christmas", bought the previous Christmas. I had watched the now legendary Â鶹ԼÅÄ news report by Michael Buerk about the famine in Ethiopia.ÌýThe tv drama shows Geldof going to Ethiopia and crying with anger and frustration about the death all around him. Domhnall Gleeson is excellent as the gobby popstar who seems to stumble into the world's biggest humanitarian crisis while "effin" and "blindin" Ìýat all around him.

While not on the scale of Geldof, I remember gettingÌýall worked up, anger and tears in equal measure, about those images. I evenÌýstarted a letter campaign in my school, writing with teenage indignationÌýto various politicians to do something about it.ÌýNot muchÌýhappened but it was one of those defining moments when you wanted to change things, make things better, get yourÌývoice heard.

Live Aid was the making of Sir Bob, but it was also the making of a vision of global fundraising. If the behind the scenes drama of it is even half true it should have been the most chaotic shambles ever. But it became one of the defining moments of the 20th century. Watch Sir Paul McCartney's solo of "Let it Be" and I defy you not to be moved.

When Harvey Met Bob, Â鶹ԼÅÄ 2 26th December @ 21.15.