Would the Magic Tour have been possible without Live Aid ?

[QUOTE] [b]Nickgreenuk wrote:[/b]

Fascinating question we can only imagine all the possible scenarios, clearly live aid injected energy into the group..rock bands go through the initial success (like the Rolling Stones say) about ten years maybe...then things tend to get stale..maybe 10-15 years either break up or limp on..until there almost re-discovered and have this second wind..the original audience has this nostalgia and you turn into the stones..Paul McCartney..elton John etc of today, where it's basically karioke of bygone hits, but the cash rolls in like never before.

Queen with Freddie, I feel, had this 'second era' shot with live aid..people who thought of them as a 1970s band re-discovered them..and the rest is history.

So I think..probably yes would have split, but for some reason they were given this opportunity that perhaps they would have had years later,like other bands..almost like a strange fate, in a way there going through a 3rd phase now (regardless of what people here might think..it appears the general public are nostalgic for them..there filling stadiums just like the old days..Freddie would approve I'm sure ££ ).

Geldoff is to blame yup, he's gone up in my estimation shouting at Nigel farage on a boat in the Thames today randomly today!.[/QUOTE]

There is a decent dose of Queen re-discovery in the TV-commercials music space in the USA.

[QUOTE] [b]ParisNair wrote:[/b]

Is there any statistic to show who benefited more from Live Aid financially - Queen or Ethiopia.[/QUOTE]

Over time Queen certainly upped their income after Live Aid, but I think it's probably unfair to suggest that was their prime reason for attending. Even they couldn't have realised just how successful they would be. In fact they appeared totally surprised by it.

[QUOTE] [b]ggo1 wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]ParisNair wrote:[/b]

Is there any statistic to show who benefited more from Live Aid financially - Queen or Ethiopia.[/QUOTE]

Over time Queen certainly upped their income after Live Aid, but I think it's probably unfair to suggest that was their prime reason for attending. Even they couldn't have realised just how successful they would be. In fact they appeared totally surprised by it.[/QUOTE]

Nobody's suggesting otherwise. Whether their primary intent was or wasn't financial gain is irrelevant - what we're discussing is whether they benefited from it more than the original cause and that, theoretically, can be mathematically measured.

http://www.queenzone.com/forums/1423923/rare-freddie-dutch-magazine-interview-1985-translated.aspx

Bob - I think this will help for the source!

[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]

No, it was long before that. He left the band in 1998.

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The musical was probably already in the planning stages at that point, so it might have tipped him over the edge?