Bono for Freddie & HIV + older video ( the LIVE AID backstage encounters)

[QUOTE] [b]Jefffabiano wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]

Real wizard: Even if zepp and sabbath had played Live Aid, Queen would still have stolen the show hands down,
Freddie was magnificent on that day and no one could have stolen Freddies crown.[/QUOTE]

Really? What if Lennon was alive and the beatles reunited? Queen would be a footnote[/QUOTE]


..and if Elvis were still alive and toured then The Beatles would be a footnote, etc..etc...etc

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[b]Marknow wrote: [/b] Have to say I was impressed with Bono for doing the recent promo, he actually seemed genuine in it. I don't feel like punching him anymore...[/QUOTE]

Funny, because to me, he didn't seem genuine/honest at all.

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]

You mean poor african people getting paid a peanuts for a hard days graft?????
Bono used to take the piss out of freddie, but at the end of the day he may have now matured to understand
that freddie was the biggest male singer in the 80s with this amazing voice & Queen better than U2 any day of the week![/QUOTE]

I absolutely guarantee you that Bono does not think Queen are better than U2.

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]

Real wizard: Even if zepp and sabbath had played Live Aid, Queen would still have stolen the show hands down,
Freddie was magnificent on that day and no one could have stolen Freddies crown.[/QUOTE]

You blinkered twat. Your memory of Live Aid probably goes no further than Freddie's white vest. In fact that's all you probably saw on the day. . . .

Let's face it if someone had resurrected Jimi Hendrix and he'd appeared at Live Aid you wouldn't have noticed

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]

You mean poor african people getting paid a peanuts for a hard days graft?????
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No, you blithering fool.

Again and again and again, your ignorance is staggering.

I said *FAIR TRADE*.

Use the internet. Find out what it means. Process the new information. Reflect. And then comment.

This place is nuts! :P

Bono has been snidey about Queen and Freddie in the past. I think its fairly likely that when they were getting into music in Dublin in the late 70s inspired by the likes of The Ramones and the UK punk bands , Queen would have been perceived as the epitome establishment British band and, in a sense, the enemy. And for a right on guy like Bono , a member of Artists Against Apartheid , Queen playing Sun City was probably the ultimate faux pas that any rock band could make.
I also dont see how Queen were in some way out of favour at the time of Live Aid, they were one of the major bands in the line up. The Works album was a smash not long before, and Greatest Hits was permanently in the charts. So Queen were serious rivals from the generation before and probably the antithesis of how Bono viewed U2 to be.

In short, I dont doubt he is genuine about his charity work, but there is no way Bono ever liked Queen.

My recollection is Queen were not as big as they'd been. And that's despite the success of Radio Ga Ga and The Works. My feeling was that people outside the fan base for a group didn't get to hear their music the way they do now. So when Queen played Live Aid, the world stood up and took notice. They put some of the more respected bands to shame IMO and many others' of course as well. It's also when the critics pretty much had to buckle under and largely stop dissing Queen or face irrelevance.

Yes they definitely went back up a level in profile at Live Aid and the band have said they were rejuvenated by it. But in perspective The Works was the 10th best selling album in UK for 1984 and three of the seven Live Aid songs were taken from it, it was hardly a return from obscurity. Even Queens rehearsals were shown on the BBC Six o Clock News., Howard Jones , Sade and Nik Kershaw were among the competition that day, not to mention the Boomtown Rats. Queen were obviously going to nail it, but maybe not quite as dramatically as the did.

[QUOTE] [b]Marknow wrote:[/b] Bono timed his interview for the exact time he knew was allotted to Queen. He had promised a live interview to the jouralists and tv crews. He went missing after his performance for some hours and only reappeared for his supposed live interview as Queen took to the stage. He wanted to be live on tv while Queen were playing but the BBC showed Queen instead of giving him his talked about live interview. Not because he somehow mystically knew Queen were going to have a good set, but to fuck them exposure wise, to take their moment of attention on the worlds stage. [/QUOTE]

just stumbled across this while looking for something else.

something about Marknow's statement just didn't ring true. so i re-checked.
17:19 U2
18:41 Queen

so, logically - U2 left stage at 17:40.
Queen - Radio Gaga - 18:45

he did not going missing for "hours" after his set. at most he probably had 1 whole hour post gig to: clean up, have a drink, something to eat, and prepare for interview.

there were no Bono Shenanigans, he probably had 15 minutes of "going missing" as you call it.

This is the full Live Aid timeline http://liveaid.free.fr/pages/liveaidtimesdetaileduk.html