Live Aid 85

well i really do wonder where people get their ideas from, to say Queen were "average" at live aid in 1985 you must have been on planet fucking mars........ that 20 minute set, galavanised the whole band into what would be their final tour in 1986... as 86 was set to be a quiet year... freddie had a throat infection .. was advised not to perform yet he never sounded better

taylorgaga (Begg) wrote:

Live Aid- ok heres the story, your a rock star, or any other musician, you have the BIGGEST event in front of you, two continentes watching live tv, millions and millions watching all over the world, you want to go on and ROCK the world, not just go on and sing a basic ballad like Love Of My Life as good as it is, but you want the world to jump and be in the greatest mood the can be, so you perform songs they will dance to and jump and enjoy! cheering etc, so here it goes:-

Bo Rhap-Greatest rock song imo, everyone recognises it and enjoys it-(fades to RGG)

Radio Ga Ga-New to the band but everyone loves clapping to the chorus and you saw how Freddie dances to it, great choice

Hammer To Fall-Another great rock song which everyone dances to.

Crazy Little Thing Called Love-Not To sure why they chose this but im guessing the guitar solo near the end.

We Will Rock You-doesnt need explaining

We Are The Champions-doesnt need explaining

So what would you have chose for a 20minute set list?!

Well, for starters, I would have replaced Crazy Little Thing Called Love with Another One Bites The Dust.. I think that song was FAR more popular across the world and more so in the USA.
Next I would have replaced Hammer To Fall with Tie Your Mother Down.. again, a FAR MORE popular song, sure Hammer was new and they were trying to get it plugged, but if they were there to play the best songs, I think TYMD would have been perfect, it SCREAMS for an audience like that..

Just to clarify...
Live Aid was to raise money... get donations... help starving people...etc...

Lets drop all this "They should have played Flick of the Wrist or Great King Rat" shit.

Queen has tons of hits... they were asked by Geldorf to arrange it into a 20 minute set of what they feel is their best known stuff.

They did fantastic.

davidcoppens wrote:

Hi,

I kept on reading how good Queen was at the original Live Aid. So I got myself a copy and watched it.

I'm sorry to say, but I don't see what is so special about this performance? Why did they play CLTCL and not even one nice ballad song from Freddie like Love Of My Live. That would have been much nicer.

I expected a superb excellent special performance after reading all of your opinions, but really, it was not such a big deal at all.

You know some people just don't think before they speak or type. At a show like that you play your Greatest Hits. You play a fast paced show. What was special was that an audience, not all Queen fans at that point, sang along to everything. They did the clapping, they shouted WWRY and they swayed to WATC. Queen just out did everyone. CLTCL should have been played because the audience evidently enjoyed it. They even sang along to that.

Well I actually did think about it, and I was not on planet Mars at the time of the event :-)

I was only 3 years old, and just saw the footage recently, without seeing the other performances.
This indicates that I have no clue about the impact of the whole live aid thing and the situation in the world at the time.

Thus I only had to make a judgement based on the sole performance, which I did not find thát very special. But taking into account the stories which I have read here in the replies makes it a whole different story. I shall have to get my hands on the full show in some way and make a proper judgement.

Can anyone please tell me more about Is this the world.. did Queen perform again later on or what happened exactly?

With kind regards,
David

Can anyone please tell me more about Is this the world.. did Queen perform again later on or what happened exactly


Yes, Every Magic tour show, 26 in all.