This little thing will explain it all... link
18th NOVEMBER 1984
Dear Diary
That arsehole Jim Beach phoned me at 4.00am this morning to ask if I wanted to appear on some shitty charity single. The whole thing is called Elastoplast or something and it's being put together by some Irish guy called Bob Godfrey (isn't he the guy that does Henry's Cat on kids telly?) and a minature Scotsman. They want to get a load of singers to record a single in aid of the starving children in Eastbourne or something. So far they have roped in Bananarama and Kool & the Gang.
I told him to fuck off and went back to sleep.
F.M.
25th NOVEMBER 1984
Dear Diary
Had a lie in this morning. Pheobe brought me breakfast in bed and the morning papers. Splashed all over the front pages were photos Phil Collins, Bono, Duran Duran, Boy George, Spandau Ballet and George Michael. It appears that they have got together to record a charity single in aid of the starving children of Ethiopia. Looks a dead cert to go straight to No 1.
How come nobody told us about it?
F.M.
it is funny! But if you look closley on the live aid dvd, you can see freddie (in a pinky red singlet) and brian singing the band aid song at the end, so in some ways, they did do it eh, just not on...oh never mind, im waffling. you get what i mean anyway
i think the answer is in peter freestones book,
he said something like, because freddie's voice would of been to dominent on the track, something like that,
which if u think about it, it would of, lol
Maybe in 1984 Queen weren't big enough to be on a single like that. Doesn't mean they weren't good, but weren't exactly at the height of their career at that time.