— “Journalist and author Andy McSmith noted that Live Aid’s generous public outpouring took place in a decade characterised by greed.” Page 4, McSmith, Andy, ‘No Such Thing as Society: A History of Britain in the 1980s’ (Constable & Robinson, 2010)

— “As McSmith has pointed out, not long after Live Aid the British government secured an arms deal with Saudi Arabia worth £43 billion.” Page 3, McSmith, Andy, ‘No Such Thing as Society: A History of Britain in the 1980s’ (Constable & Robinson, 2010)