Queen - Live at LIVE AID 1985 07 13 DjSkiLzZ.mkv

Live Aid, on July 13, 1985, was the greatest live concert ever staged and a day that no one who saw it will ever forget. Apart from the audiences at the transatlantic events (72,000 at Wembley Stadium in London; 99,000 at the John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia), it was estimated that another two billion people in 60 countries watched it on television. There was one thing that everybody agreed on: Queen’s mind-blowing 20-minute set stole the show. Reaction to Queen’s performance was extraordinary. In the stadium, the crowd was floored, as were the other acts: Elton John rushed into their dressing room afterwards, screaming that they had stolen the show. Their back catalogue suddenly took off again across the world.



Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters, who has performed with May and drummer Roger Taylor, remembers the day: “Queen smoked ’em. They just took everybody. They walked away being the greatest band you’d ever seen in your life, and it was unbelievable. And that’s what made the band so great; that’s why they should be recognised as one of the greatest rock bands of all time because they could connect with an audience.”