Live Aid's historic 1985 concerts at Wembley and JFK stadiums featured icons like Queen and Madonna while raising funds for Ethiopian famine relief, reaching 1.9 billion viewers.

They moved about 300 miles west to Texas Hill country, thinking it was safer ground. “That’s what brought us to Kerrville, the hurricanes,” said Keith Halbert, a 59-year-old mechanic. They lived just ...