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Queen’s full set at Live Aid, Wembley, UK
The Story of Queen at Live Aid – Why Was it So Perfect?
Bohemian Rhapsody movie, 2018, side-by-side with Queen’s performance at Live Aid, 1985 – brilliant!
Wikipedia:
Live Aid was a benefit concert held on Saturday 13 July 1985, as well as a music-based fundraising initiative. The original event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise further funds for relief of the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia, a movement that started with the release of the successful charity single Do They Know It’s Christmas? in December 1984. Billed as the “global jukebox”, Live Aid was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London, UK, attended by about 72,000 people and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, US, attended by 89,484 people.
On the same day, concerts inspired by the initiative were held in other countries, such as the Soviet Union, Canada, Japan, Yugoslavia, Austria, Australia and West Germany.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Aid
Queen’s full set at Live Aid, Wembley, UK
Wikipedia:
At the UK Live Aid event, in front of the biggest-ever TV audience of an estimated 1.9 billion, Queen performed some of their greatest hits. Many of the sold-out stadium audience of 72,000 people clapped, sang, and swayed in unison. The show’s organisers, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure; other musicians such as Elton John and Cliff Richard; and journalists writing for the BBC, CNN, Rolling Stone, MTV, The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph, among others, described Queen as the highlight.
The band was revitalised by the response to Live Aid — a “shot in the arm” Roger Taylor called it — and the ensuing increase in record sales. Mercury commented on the performance during an interview for Japanese magazine Music Life in 1986, stating: “From our perspective, the fact that Live Aid happened when it did was really lucky. It came out of nowhere to save us. For sure that was a turning point. Maybe you could say that in the history of Queen, it was a really special moment.”
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_(band)
The Story of Queen at Live Aid – Why Was it So Perfect?
Video by MusiXion – All Things Music
Bohemian Rhapsody movie, 2018, side-by-side with Queen’s performance at Live Aid, 1985
Posted on YouTube by Juan Dela Cruz
This clip demonstrates how painstakingly Queen’s Live Aid performance was recreated for the film Bohemian Rhapsody by its production team and actor Rami Malek.
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