Farm Aid 40 photos: Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan and more hold benefit concert for U.S. farmers

It was four decades ago that Bob Dylan took the stage and mused about the need to support American farmers. “I hope that some of the money that’s raised for the people in Africa,” he said during a performance at Live Aid, the 1985 benefit concert to raise relief funds for famine in Ethiopia, “maybe they can just take a little bit of it, maybe one or two million, maybe, and use it … to pay the mortgages on some of the farms that the farmers here owe to the banks.”