AN A TO Z GUIDE TO THE CHARITY GIG

is for Adam Ant. Adam was only asked by Geldof because he shared a manager with Sting and the Irishman hoped he could get Police to reform. Adam only got to play one song and chose to play new tune Vive le Rock rather than one of his huge hits. The bitter singer later said: “It was the end of rock‘n’roll.” is for Boy George. It was the Culture Club singer who gave Bob Geldof the original idea for a concert. On the last night of the band’s six night residence at Wembley, he got some of the Band Aid artists on stage to sing Do They Know It’s Christmas? It went down so well, he told Geldof he should organise a benefit gig. But Culture Club never played Live Aid because George claimed: “I was otherwise engaged chemically.”