[Thanks Phil Weisman for sending this Farm Aid news.;
by: Thomas Conner
“It was 20 years ago today….”
In July, Paul McCartney opened the worldwide Live 8 concerts with that line, hearkening back to the original 1985 Live Aid concert. That was the year of aid, indeed — Live Aid, Band Aid and, eventually Farm Aid — for at that same Life AId event, in Philadelphia, Bob Dylan took to the stage and made an offhand remark that would change the lives of countless American farmres: “Wouldn’t it be great if we did something for own farmers.
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