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After the show, the cash desk takes place. Accordingly, the “Back to the Beginning” concert on July 5, with which the hard and heavy scene said goodbye to Ozzy Osbourne as a live artist, played around $ 200 million. It was the highest sales concert of all time.
According to the US Music Biz Magazine “Billboard”, the Birmingham’s box of the Birmingham exceeded the sum that was taken together at the American charity shows “Fire Aid” (January 2025) and “Farm AID” (since 1985).
Everything for a good cause
In an earlier balance sheet, Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine, who had played the role of artistic and organizational director in Villa Park, spoke in an Instagram post of $ 140 million. Apparently there has also been a sophisticated amount of sowing. “We have decided not only to create the biggest day in the history of the heavy metal,” he said euphorically. “We have collected a ton of money for a great purpose, and so many great musicians, bands and fans all over the world have paid tribute to the great of their time.”
The funds are divided between three organizations as in advance: the Birmingham Children’s Hospital, the Acorn Children’s Hospice and the Parkinson-Hilfsforum Cure Parkinson’s. These carriers were able to collect bonus revenue through independent raffles of show tickets.
With this ranking, which of course cannot be verified except for the last brighter, the look back on 1971. On December 20, George Harrison and Ravi Shankar with their “Concert for Bangladesh” invented the principle of the all-star beefiz show. After the Soli concert in Madison Square Garden with guests such as Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton (on Heroin withdrawal), another donation gala took place in London in January ’72. From today’s perspective, the concert tickets showed modest $ 250,000. By evaluating the live album and the documentary film, around $ 12 million came to the 1980s, according to Unicef as the “umbrella organization” of the campaign.
Live Aid and Fire Aid
The most famous in this series is “Live Aid”, which took place on July 13, 1985 in the Wembley Stadium in London and in the JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. The first satellite transmission with around one billion spectators in 110 countries is probably the audience king. Around $ 100 million for hunger aid in Ethiopia and Sudan came together here. Long-term effects such as record sales, such as the singles “” We are the world “and” Do they know it’s Christmas “were added.
This year’s “Fire Aid”, in favor of the fire disaster victims in the Los Angeles area, collected $ 100 million. For comparison “Onelove Manchester” in favor of the victims of the terrorist attack at the 2017 concert by Ariana Grande, it brought about $ 12 million charity funds.