@kingswing72 has been live tweeting the whole day 'as it happened'. It's been a fun read, so many memories.
And it wasn't my memory playing tricks... The Style Council really did go on for ages.
Rula Lenska and Dennis Waterman being interviewed... What a highlight that was.... :-)
#LiveAid30
I think it's fantastic that after 30 years this is still regarded as one of the greatest performances in Rock and Roll! No big production, no lights or pyro, no costumes... just 4 men, their music and the entire world to witness such a happening.
Marknow wrote:
What a great moment, their finest hour. I was only 8 at the time but I remember watching this on TV, start of a great Queen journey for me.
Similar story here, a few years older and I've to watch it on a tiny
black/white tube Screen in my older brothers room back then.
The Event and Queen's performance is still in good memory.
Today the 30th anniversary was mentioned on the radio several times and a regular geman newspaper did a full page special.( I grab it at the airport, will upload it when I'am back home)
To sum it up...It wasn't too shabby I think :)
Jazz 78 wrote:
I think it's fantastic that after 30 years this is still regarded as one of the greatest performances in Rock and Roll! No big production, no lights or pyro, no costumes... just 4 men, their music and the entire world to witness such a happening.
Jazz 78 wrote:
I think it's fantastic that after 30 years this is still regarded as one of the greatest performances in Rock and Roll! No big production, no lights or pyro, no costumes... just 4 men, their music and the entire world to witness such a happening.
...I remember well that day, a long music day. I was 17 years old and the info about the show was very poor at the time (when who play what....); no internet, nothing, only watching the show and wait your favourites artists. here in Italy the Queen performance did not go on the air live television, for reasons of national television programming from 18 to 21, but I listened to the radio. only the next day, Sunday, I could see it on TV.
what memories of a long time ago, nice memories...
To me that was the day when Queen showed the critics and naysayers that they were the best band in the world, and they had the best frontman in the world.
I mean, to go out on stage in what is basically a white undervest, and yet put on probably the best live performance ever... you need massive amounts of talent, charisma and confidence to do that.
andyb1968 wrote:
Resurrected Queen's career ! Would've been curious to know what would have happened without live aid !
The Works resurrected their career. Live Aid was successful for Queen, in part, because the Works was so successful. Queen were a big draw again by the time the concert came around.
andyb1968 wrote:
Resurrected Queen's career ! Would've been curious to know what would have happened without live aid !
The Works resurrected their career. Live Aid was successful for Queen, in part, because the Works was so successful. Queen were a big draw again by the time the concert came around.
Yes, but things were horrifically bad behind the scenes. Brian has even confirmed this numerous times.
You can bet your life that they were about to break up after the Japanese tour in 85. Bob Geldof saved Queen.
For the first time I watched 'The Great Pretender' documentary, last night. It was about as revealing as we are going to get regarding Queen's relationship in the early to mid 1980s. It seems that the band had fallen out with Freddie and Freddie had fallen out with the band, and had it not been for the enormous flop of Mr Bad Guy, and the enormous success of Live Aid, then the subsequent Magic Tour would probably never have happened, Queen would have split, and perhaps they'd have come back together after finding out Freddie was sick, but we can't begin to speculate on how that would have all panned out.
^ That's why it was funny. Nobody would pay attention to what these two have to say, because Freddie's voice in the background came through SO clear.
miraclesteinway wrote:
...had it not been for the enormous flop of Mr Bad Guy, and the enormous success of Live Aid, then the subsequent Magic Tour would probably never have happened, Queen would have split, and perhaps they'd have come back together after finding out Freddie was sick...
I don't think so. With Freddie's character and pride, if not for the flop (Mr Bad Guy) and the success (Live Aid), he probably wouldn't have let the band know that he'd been sick. The band might have known about it after everybody, when it'd been too late.
Or even if he had, it would not have been the same. The band coming back together because they pitied Freddie's sickness, would have been totally different from the band coming back together because they realised that they still could make good music together and people still needed them. In the first case, there might have been A Kind of Magic or The Miracle or Magic Tour, but there would definitely not have been Innuendo, in particular Bijou or TSMGOn, as these songs demonstrate top team work. So, we owe a lot to Live Aid.
Of course it's just my speculation without any evidence. Any "If" could result in a Nazi premise, as folks here used to say.
Also Italian newspapers and websites celebrated the 30th anniversary. For Italian fans (and also for the others), some pictures here (some of which I have never seen before): link link link