Forty years ago, the cities of London and Philadelphia hosted the biggest arts event of the ’80s: Live Aid. And there was no bigger star in London than David Bowie.

Bowie did not perform his four-song set alone, of course. He recruited a talented band that included breakthrough artist Thomas Dolby on keyboards. The experience left a deep impression on Dolby, who now resides in Baltimore as head of Music for New Media for the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins, and so Dolby occasionally incorporates elements of the experience in his modern day performances.

Such was the case in Professor Dolby’s recent performance at Rams Head on Stage, where he unleashed an experimental new project under the banner of his latest tour, Iconic ’80s: My Personal Recollections.