Why didn TFF appear at the Live Aid concert in 1985?
Despite their name being printed on the back of the festival t-shirts, TFF chose not to appear at the famous Live Aid charity concert, choosing instead to donate proceeds from select Big Chair tour dates to the famine relief effort. Their official reason for pulling out was that they had lost members of their backing band and could not perform. Later though, Roland admitted that the band had questioned the motives of concert organizer Bob Geldof. The band were also not thrilled with the fact that TFF had been announced as one of the acts without their consent. In the end, the band felt somewhat guilty for not appearing at the festival, and contributed a re-recorded version of ‘Everybody Wants To Rule The World’ to Bob Geldof’s “Sport Aid” campaign the following year.
