Archive for October, 2004

The Observer Music Monthly, 17 October 2004
For the first time, the full backstage story of Live Aid, in the words of the people who made it happen.
On 24 October 1984, BBC journalist Michael Buerk reports on the terrible famine that has hit Ethiopia. The dispatch subsequently airs on 425 stations around the world.
Michael [...]

The Telegraph, 2 October 2004
Carl Wilkinson investigates the bizarre world of student societies
Lying in my makeshift cardboard coffin, I’m in good company. If the reports are to be believed, both George W Bush and John Kerry have gone through a similar ritual on “pledge night” as an initiation into the Order of Skull and Bones [...]


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