How a Bob Dylan moment 40 years ago sparked decades of pop philanthropy

How a Bob Dylan moment 40 years ago sparked decades of pop philanthropy

By Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent It was 1985, and improvised empathy was cool. News reports of families starving to death in drought-stricken Ethiopia were enough to move the lead singer of the Boomtown Rats to assemble a British supergroup to help save them. Bob Geldof, Band Aid and “Do They Know It’s Christmas” helped inspire Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson to rally even more star power into USA for Africa, raise hundreds of mill…