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Welcome back to Meet Arthur Reacts! Today, we're diving into one of the most iconic live performances in rock history: Queen's full set at Live Aid 1985. Join us as we are blown away by Freddie Mercury's unparalleled stage presence, Brian May's masterful guitar work, and the band's electrifying energy that captivated audiences worldwide.
🎸 About Queen:
Queen is a legendary rock band known for their revolutionary sound, dynamic performances, and timeless hits. Led by the charismatic Freddie Mercury, Queen's music continues to inspire and resonate with fans across generations. Their performance at Live Aid is often hailed as one of the greatest live performance ever.
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Queen's Live Aid performance is a historic moment in rock history, showcasing their extraordinary talent and the sheer power of their music. From "Bohemian Rhapsody" to "We Are the Champions," this set is a testament to their incredible artistry and showmanship. Join us as we dissect the highlights, marvel at Freddie's vocals, and discuss why this performance is considered legendary.
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It wasn’t only Queen who realized they had been sensational. Paul Gambaccini, who was part of the BBC broadcasting team at Live Aid, recalled the awe among other superstar musicians watching backstage. “Everybody realized that Queen was stealing the show,” said Gambaccini. These were the very words Elton John uttered when he rushed into Mercury’s trailer after the set. “You bastards, you stole the show,” joked the charismatic star.
“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,” said Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters. “And that’s what made the band so great; that’s why they should be recognized as one of the greatest rock bands of all time, because they could connect with an audience.”
Thee Greatest Band in the world
Spike Edny (the current keyboardist for Queen) was the 5th invisible member of Queen. Whenever Freddie was seated at the keys, he was playing but when he got up from the piano and you could still hear the piano playing what you were hearing was Spike just off stage on an identical piano playing. During their full concerts there were always a few songs where Spike came out on stage and played wither keys or joined in with Brian on electric guitar. It was Spike who sort of discovered current lead singer Adam Lambert. He was watching American Idol and saw Adam and called Brian and Roger the next day and told them that he just saw their next lead singer. The rest is history but since Adam does not play keys, Spike became a permanent on-stage member of the band and has been their main keyboardist ever since.
Fred Mandel, a Canadian did it from 82 to 84, then Spike took over.
Brian and Roger said in an interview that the acoustic in stage was so bad, that they had to rely only on themselves (they were the only band to rehearse all week prior) and their gestures and experience playing big stadiums in spring that year. They were the true champions of the world.
"What instrument do you play?"
Freddie: "The audience, darling."
Nobody played the audience as masterfully as Freddie. Nice reaction.
When asked “what instrument do you play” he answered “the audience darling”
Thank you for recognizing the tremendous job John does on bass. Too often Brian is cheered for his solos, but it's the bass that holds it all together.
Agree - the bass and the drums are the foundation on which the other band members build. And together the four of them are unbeatable as far as I am concerned.
Not to mention the absolutely iconic basslines from John that are instantly recognizable all over the world!
More than 72 thousand there 72 k is just people sitting in the seats not the people on the pitch plus over 1.5 billion watched this on tv
I couldn't get tickets, but I headed down to a pub outside the stadium. Live Aid was on every television. When Queen came on, people just streamed into the streets, and we all sung our hearts out. There were a lot of great bands that day. It was a once in a lifetime experience.
It truly was, and it felt like every single person in the country was watching along and experiencing it all at the same time. What a magic time it was.
@@ALMUK22other countries too. I watched in Sydney where it was broadcast live. I was mesmerised by Queen’s performance then (I was a huge fan) and I’m mesmerised still. This performance gives me goosebumps, tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat. Awestruck.
@@juneabbott6805 That’s so good to hear. It was, as @cmoplay1 suggested, a very special and precious event to experience, and a once in a lifetime opportunity. I feel so lucky, and indeed privileged, to have lived through that time and it feels special to connect with people in other countries who were part of that collective experience. I believe you can only truly and fully comprehend the impact of Live Aid if you witnessed it at the time. I’ll always feel so very grateful that I was young during the eighties.
I was there answering the phones and no one was calling when queen hit the stage the phone started ringing and in just 22 min we raised 4 million pounds. 😊
Thank you for your part in this critical fund raiser! Good work.
❤🙏
Queen was the best band EVER. Their versatility is unmatched, and Freddie was a magical being.
Great reaction. Yes I was in that crowd. I was 16 years old and was my first ever concert. I think my ticket cost me £18.00 give and take a few quid. Queen weren't on the official line up nor on the tickets so none of us knew for sure whether they were going to appear. After 6 hours in the London sunlight we were all getting a bit jaded, then at 6.41pm Queen were announced and we just all went crazy. We were all fully rejuvenated and the atmosphere was electric, it was an experience I'll never forget. The whole 72,000 of us became united through their music and it was phenomenal. Freddie was amazing and just had us eating out of his hands. I was hooked and so I saw them again the following year twice. One back at Wembley in July 1986 and then again in Knebworth in August 1986 which turned out to be Freddie's ever last LIVE performance with Queen as he got his diagnosis in Easter of 1987 and then slowly his body was started to let him down, even though his voice grew stronger than ever. I have been a fan ever since and I am now 55. Keep down that Queen rabbit hole, you're platform will continually get a huge boost as the Queen army is massive so keep up the good work. Stay safe from Manchester UK.
Freddie was also mooning and proving a point to a man he truly hated Norman Sheffield (to which the band penned a song dedicated to him called Death on Two Legs), to which Norman came back at them with a book entitled "Life on Two Legs". He was the band's first manager and did literally rip them all off. They never had a penny to their names but he rocked upto work in a Rolls Royce !!! It was only when John Deacon asked for some money to buy a house (and got refused) that the band realised they were being taken for a complete ride and got free of him. The showing of his backside was to him to say "up yours" we made big, and without you, you mother******.
RIP you beautiful Persian Poppinjay (in Freddie's own words) you were and STILL are that LEGEND you always wanted to be dahling. The GOAT, Freddie Mercury xxxxxxx
A clip that will blow you away is from a green day concert that played Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody before their concert and all the fans sang every word of the song and even hummed along to Brian’s solos. It is something to experience. The crowd sings so precisely you hear every word.
yeah, please watch. It will give you chills
Yes, please do the Green Day crowd singing Bohemian Rhapsody ❤️
It really is an experience. No live band, the crowd full of fans of another band, but Bohemian Rhapsody runs deep in our DNA. I was raised on Queen’s music, am sat here quietly appreciating my parents taste in music and owning so many fantastic albums. I’ll deffo watch these guys react to it the Green Day Crowd singing BR. 😌
That is a epic video!
I was in tears the first time I saw it.
What set queen apart from all the other artists to perform this day was everyone else was making it personal or really sombre but queen went out and played 20 mins of their greatest hits 7 songs in 20 mins and rocked Wembley like no one else could R.I.P FRED thanks for showing us how to perform and captivate an audience also helps when you got brian Rodger and john standing behind you
It was said that for those 20 minutes a different Queen ruled England. 😮
How true! 👑 forever! ❤
They were nervous because they weren’t on the list of bands until much later. They weren’t sure if this was going to be their audience because there were so many new bands. They were so thrilled to see the audience react to them
Thank you from a 82 year old vintage Queenie from the States who fell in love back in 1976 when I rocked mini skirts and knee high boots. I have remained in love through parenthood, 2 marriages, 2 grown grand children, elastic waist trousers and sensible shoes. Queen captured my heart and never let go. So again, thank you. It’s reactors like you who are introducing Queen to new generations, securing their status as true legends and acknowledging the brilliance of how 4 individuals, each with completely different personalities to each other, managed to make musical magic and musical history. 👑🎹🎸🥁🎸🎤🎹 🎼🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶
As such a royal fan I have a Question, can you listen to the latest Queen tracks. Like Mother Love? These are the days of our lives? Tracks that pierce most Queen fans hearts, but most haven been along since 76. Freds passing must have been a tragedy for someone like you, ot still is for all of us. Teo Torriate.
@@merqury5 if your question is for me, yes. I have listened to those tracks, many times. I only recently watched the videos because RUclips reactors view them. I didn’t realize such videos existed. Now, I take great pleasure in watching ALL the available videos and know that new generations are as passionate about the band as we who loved them for years.
BTW, Freddie’s passing gutted me and I was 49 years old then. I knew he was ill but being in the USA, Queen had fallen out of sight for a while and not much news reached us until it was over. I remember playing my, Queen’s Greatest Hits cassette ad nauseum. I had their albums in various forms, from 8-tracks and cassettes to vinyl. Both my 8-track and cassette versions deteriorated over the years by my vinyls are alive and well.
The next act up after Queen was David Bowie. He said "how the FUCK m I supposed to follow that! Pure Respect.
Watch “green day” where only instruments are on stage and the crowd is singing “Bohemian Rapsody”
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All 4 of Queen members are in the songwriting hall of fame
I think they were the first band
Have checked the comments and no-one has recommended "Liar" live at the Rainbow 1974. All four members get their chance to shine in this performance - especially John Deacon's part as he is not often featured openly. The song is full of change of direction, different "textures", just brilliant. Queen are never boring, you never know what direction the performance is going to next. I hope you love it as much as I do!
Oh yes Liar is fabulous gets my vote great suggestion ❤
Yes! Yes! Yes!
And White Queen at the Rainbow. Amazing.
Stone Cold Crazy!
@@kristineschneider9322the whole show at the Rainbow
Hi guys! I was one of the BILLION + people in the world who watched this show on TV in New Jersey, USA. I think it was the FIRST show ever to be simulcast with solo artists/bands in the USA and solo artists/bands in the UK and viewed all over the world. We can thank Bob Geldof, who produced this mega show, for his incredible creativity and for getting all these remarkable, ingenious, magical bands and soloists to perform on this one fantastic day! I don't think we'll ever see the likes of it again...though, God knows, we need it now more than ever. Regardless of genre, I believe that music is a beautiful unifier. There is a short video on youtube which shows Queen rehearsing for this show - one of the few bands that actually rehearsed. In the video you can see huge clocks hung on the walls so that the band knew exactly how much time each song took. To make everything fit the 20 minute timeframe, they shortened some songs, sped up others. Queen were PERFECTIONISTS in everything they did and it showed in every Queen concert I was so fortunate to attend in the 1970s in New York and in 1981 in Montreal. To see Brian, Roger, John and Freddie up close and personal was PURE MAGIC! 🥰 Wish you could have been there...but, then, you two would be as old as I am...LOL!
If you think 72,000 is a big crowd then I highly recommend you watch Queen performing 6 months prior to Live Aid in front of over 250,000 people at the Rock in Rio festival especially the song Love Of My Life in which the crowd are sing the song in perfect English taking into account they speak Portuguese in Brazil.
I also LOVE the Rock in Rio Blues…❤
I was at this concert as a young 24 year old and now all those years later as a still young 63 year old I still listen to queen daily, they easily stole the show that day despite now being on the original pre show line up as they were a last minute addition.
If I remember rightly the price of the ticket was only £5 but came with an additional £20 charity donation , so £25 which was alot of cash back in them days but so worth it just for the experience .
Not all the bands were so good, I can remember Adam and the ants playing and they were awful.
For 22 minutes in 1985 the uk was ruled by a different queen, absolutely brilliant.
Great reaction once again lads , it's great to see younger generations experience the amazing talent that this band had.
Great reaction
My 16 year old self didn't realise at the time that I was watching musical superheroes.
How lucky were we .
Lived it
Loved it! ❤
I love listening to reactors who know what it is all about - so I can learn too - - most are American teens - rappers - and it is nice to see them wonder - - but thank you - keep going.
I agree. Would love to see them react to Blood, Sweat and Tears rendition of God Bless the Child.
Thank you! Werr glad you enjoyed, hope you check out the other videos
Freddie was this amazing even after having laryngitis the week before. He was heard to say it felt like he was singing with a throat full of glass shards.
Another youtuber broke down this set. Each band was given no more than 20 minutes, Queen rehearsed it so well that the montage of hits (and the crowd singalong section), fit seamlessly into their allotted time. By the end Roger Taylor had kept the tempo of the entire 20 minute set to within 10 seconds.
The green light at the front of the stage changed to red immediately upon Queen finishing. They rehearsed the set with clocks that Ratty had gone out and bought.
Freddie mooning the crowd is really a sign to his exmanager who said they would never make it as a band. The microphone without a stand became a Freddie trademark after one of their earlier performances the stand broke. He kept using the microphone anyway.
Now try to imagine this with Freddie at 100%. The brain gymnastics will leave you spinning.
I sat with my ear glued to the radio listening to this live as it was happening in 1985.
We recorded it off the radio onto cassettes (that's how old I am).
@@AudsVids Hahah, that's amazing! Do you still have them?
@@MoreMeetArthur I'm not sure. They're probably put away in a shoebox somewhere. I don't remember us listening back to it much but we didn't have a VCR at the time. The whole show was great but obviously Queen stood out.
I taped off the telly, on a free old holburn tobacco promo cassette and it is somewhere but I can't remember I'm that old
I saw Queen back in the late ‘70’s in concert in Buffalo, NY, and I can’t swear to it but I’m pretty sure the price of the ticket was less than $10-which would be a little less than $50 today….best entertainment dollars I ever spent! As amazing as Queen is on video, seeing them live at or near their height of ability was a concert experience beyond all expectations. So much talent on that stage; just amazing!
Worth every penny I bet!
The fifth person who took over the piano for Freddie was Spike Edney. You can hear him very well during Crazy Little Thing Called Love. He used to tour with the band so Freddie could move around the stage. If I remember correctly he still yours with them.
Still tours with them.
@pamelatriffon4408 yes he does. I met him last year at the show in Boston MA.
There is a 5th member live... Spike Edney, still touring with Queen to this day on keys and occasional guitar. You can spot him behind John on keys on a couple of shots.
I met Spike once, and he was a real nice guy.
In the 70's early 80's a Queen ticket in Los Angeles was around $10 US or less depending on the location in the venue, if you got them at the box office. If you had to get them from Ticket Scalpers or ticket agencies the price would be considerably more. The only way to get a box office ticket was to spend the night outside of it and be there when they opened in the morning, but even then, most of the good seats were already gone. It didn't matter, a Queen show was spectacular and any seat was a beautiful gift. Brian talks about how intelligent Roger is, he says he has a hard time keeping up with him. Coming from Brian, that says a lot about Roger. Drummers never get credit for being much more than eye candy, particularly when you are as cute as Roger but if you watch him while he is playing, he is completely in the zone, incredible drummer. John is quiet but you know he is brilliant, you can see that he is locked in and well in the pocket..and of course, Freddie is genius, I doubt that anyone would dispute that. Part of what made Queen so good was what each member brought to the band both musically and intellectually. Panning in the early days came from splitting the stereo. So many tricks were needed in the studio back then. Spike Edney is a multi-instrumentalist who is often referred to as the 5th member of Queen. He covers the keys (piano/synth) when Freddie is up front and will play a guitar if they need him in live shows. Occasionally he will come out with a guitar and play along side of Brian just for fun. White Queen live Odeon, Hammersmith will blow your mind. It is not to be missed by anyone who appreciates Queen. Vocally and instrumentally it is one of the best live performances ever.
Keyboard player is Spike Edney still playing with Queen and Adam Lambert today. Brain built this guitar with his dad the guitar is called The Red special.
Queen fans are pretty fanatical, we love these guys! Forever!
That being said there are alsostill a lot of "pretty fanatical" Queen "HATERS"...I HAVE NO FREAKING IDEA WHY😮...IMHO Queen were BRILLIANT from the release of Seven Seas of Rhye all the way through to Mother Love.
Queen fans are the best fans
Very true
@@MoreMeetArthur you too
These were not a Queen crowd, they weren't even supposed to play.
72, 000 thousand people in Attendance and 1.9 Billion people watching from around the world ,which was 1/4 of the world at that time .Freddie performed against doctors orders with a throat infection. He said it felt like broken glass .
Live Aid made 140 million dollars for famine in Africa. When the boys left the stage a Prince from Dubai donated $1 million.
luckily Roger saved Freddie at the end singing the high notes in we are the champions.
Freddie is the best frontman ever.
Agreed!
No doubt about it mate. It's not even fair how much talent one man can have.
No body does lt like Freddie the best so loved and Brian Roger and Decon ❤❤❤❤🎉🎉
I love putting this: For one day in 1985 a different Queen ruled England 😊
Also back in the day; no ear pieces. Had to rely on the monitors.
Brian plays 3 different guitars during crazy little thing & when Freddie says “take it Brian” the Red Special comes in.
And yes when you went to a show you were basically left deaf for days.
Live AId was insane. More then 2 BILLION people are estimated to have watched it at some point during the broadcast. Like a big part of the planet.
Brian’s made his own guitar with his dad. His guitar is called the red special. A fun note Brian uses a six pence as a pick.
I was lucky enough to see this as it happened and old enough to realise this was history in the making
This is said to be one of the best live performances of all time.
It definitely is
The secret to Brian May's guitar tone...AC 30 amps - treble booster - and a guitar wired so he can choose any combination of pickups AND he can change the phase of all the pickups.
The "secret 5th member" of Queen during Concerts is Spike Edney. He plays Piano and Guitar.
Thank you 🙌
Queen understood the assignment on this one. Queen was known for rehearsing and doing more sound checks than other bands. 1/4 of the world watched them. I saw Queen in the USA (cost $12) and they spoiled me as I expected all bands to sound as mesmerizing but this band had 4 incredible musicians and Freddie Mercury who had the gorgeous voice and charisma to enthrall all of us. Still the best concert I’ve seen and I’ve seen many. Roger tuned his drums. John Deacon took home an organ piano and learned it to write I Want To Be Free. Brian learned to play a harp for Greddie’s Love of My Life song about Mary Austin. All four were amazing songwriters and professional musicians! BoRap is a masterpiece. There are others but you have to go down the Queen rabbit hole to find them. Enjoy!
During Crazy Little Thing Called Love you can see Spike Edney playing the piano
That was such a great reaction! I enjoyed hearing your thoughts and comments. This was so much fun. Thank you so much! 😊
Thank you!
Were really glad you enjoyed it
the first time i saw Queen was on saturday dec 1st 1979 at the glasgow apollo, and i paid £4.75 for my ticket, i still have my white satin scarf from the show 👑✊🇬🇧
You beat me by a couple of weeks. Tiffany’s, Purley a small nightclub just south of London. £4.75. Took my then 14 y/o sister to her first gig.
Queen reactions: If you do them, we Queenies will come. We will not steer you wrong!
I saw Brian and Roger two years ago (with Adam Lambert). They can still rock the crowd 🤟🤟🤟
Incredible... 40 years later... they continue taking my breath away.....
I recommend you a live version of too much love will kill you, with Brian and Pavarotti.....
If your kid said "Daddy, what's a rock star?" you could just play this.
Too true
Wembley 1986 when Freddie is singing with the crowd before they perform Under Pressure goes on even longer ending with Freddie saying................. Nah I won't spoil it so you'll just have to watch it lol
Duck you lol😅😅Naughty Freddie ❤❤
I watched the whole thing live on tv that day, was already a fan but they blew everyone away seemingly David Bowie was going on next and said “ how the F am I supposed to follow this ☮️ ❤️ 🏴
The band on stage before them was Dire Straits who did "Sultans of Swing" and "Money for Nothing" with Sting.That performance is great and you should check it out. Also check out some of Queen's later songs from when Freddie was sick like "Innuendo", "Scandal", and "Show Must Go On". They sort of just went balls to the wall creatively.
But you're right. Queen was maybe the most educated band ever. Brian May is an astrophysicist, Roger Taylor was in dental school, John Deacon is an electrical engineer, and Freddie was a fashion student.
Freddie didn't moone 72.000 people, in every concert he was remembering their first motherf**er of s manager how he treated them and how he lost 👑 Chech the song Death on two legs. Queen can sting if it is really necessary 😅
Yes please do check out “Death on Two Legs” best Diss song ever (never get on wrong side of Freddie 😂)
@@JaneRtn Or Phil Collins!!!
Freddie often mooned the journalists and music critics section as they were quite critical of Queen despite their popularity and genius. 😂
First saw Queen at Manchester University Students Union - no cost - I have been a fan ever since. My grandson now insists on playing Queen when he is in our car
I was at this concert Queen and Freddie..INSANE.. could talk the next day...Still missing you Freddie my love 💓😢
The greatest set in music history and will continue to be so for generations to come.
R.I.P FREDDIE WE MISS YOU
Lady Ga Ga's producer, Robert Fusari, told her that she reminded him of the famous Queen song "Radio Ga Ga." From then on, Stefani Germanotta (which is her real name) took on the moniker proudly.
I honestly don’t know why I feel like crying a bit… I’ve seen this a gazillion times. Maybe it’s because I just stumbled across you guys and it’s obvious you feel the same way I do about the GOAT … QUEEN 👑 and my darling FREDDIE 🥰 Plz keep going esp more LIVE QUEEN 👑✌🏼 ( There are many of us down in the rabbit hole waiting for guys like you to come along 😂)
So we were right weren’t we. It was right to do the whole show. Glad you loved it too. 😁👍🏾
Freddie was so natural and comfortable on stage, like he was in his living room 🥰
When you look at the shots of them on stage, it's doesn't feel like almost 40 years ago!
Spike Edney can actually be seen sat at the piano during Crazy Little Thing Called Love, but spent most of the show cordoned off out of sight.
Oh yeah thank you!
not anymore - You know they are still touring - Brian and Roger + Adam Lambert and Spike Edney and a bass player and a drummer -- years ago it was Rogers son - a very accompliced drummer - .
@@anne-mariesindruprix4792 We were talking about Queen + Edney at Live Aid. Bollocks to Queen + The Freak. I'm a Queen fan from 1973 until 1997 when John Deacon left.
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PS I'm aware of Taylor's son Rufus being a drummer too, with The Darkness. I've been involved in music for decades.
I was lucky enough to grow up in the Greater Cleveland, OH area during the peak of "Album Oriented Rock" radio. Queen always toured here. So, I saw at least one show from every tour from 1974 thru the Hot Space tour. Sometimes I would see 3 shows in 3 different cities over a 7-day period & each was slightly different. No cookie cutter, going through the motions BS. No doubt the most professional, "give it their all" band ever. They loved & respected their fans.
Really good reaction, guys! I'm the same age as Freddie was when he died, and it feels so weird. He was born in the same year as my father was, and he's been like a father figure to me. Nothing wrong with my father; I love him so much, and he's still alive. I'm from the Music TV generation, and I fell in love with Queen when I was 8 or 9. I still remember the day Freddie died. I was 12 years old then. I love the whole band, and when I was thinking about other great guitarists other than Brian May, David Gilmour was the first to come to my mind. I've been lucky enough to see him live in The Royal Albert Hall. Wish I could have seen Queen live as well.
I remember watching it on TV, i was 6. Thanks to my big brother i could sing along to every song. Ill never forget it x
Lots of memories popping up. My first record was from Queen, I became fan and I've seen them life in the Netherlands in 1986 and Queen brought me to bombastic metal. Still graceful for that! Sincerally, Dutch metalhead...
Love you guys. You picked up on all the details. Thanks
Thanks for watching!
He blew a kiss to his mum.
You have to review their short documentary on the making of One Vision!
It was fascinating to see them working together on creating a song like that. Fun and friction, but my goodness Freddie knew what he wanted to hear! Now I know where the 'Fried chicken' came from. 😂
I recommend One Vision for a reaction. It is Freddy's and the guys' swan song.
The greatest performance ever
Thanks guys.
This was a charity concert with all the worlds biggest stars performing. Queen were largely thought to be finished at this point. Freddie had a throat infection that day and doctors advised him not to perform but he went out anyway. The audience was not a 'Queen' audience as there were so many people performing that day. Queen STOLE THE WHOLE SHOW!! It is widely regarded to be the finest live performance or all time. And all this without a soundcheck before they went on
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Thank you. I really enjoyed watching your reaction to this history making performance. Yes. The band WERE nervous before they hit the stage. This was discussed by Roger and Brian in later interviews. Both commented on Freddie’s call / response. Brian referred to it as an abyss you can call into. Freddie being Freddie, he just waved his hand and magic happened. Roger was worried the response wouldn’t be very loud, you need the “Wembley Roar” to be effective. Obviously the audience belted out their response and the “Wembley Roar” was decidedly evident. After all these years , despite having watched this performance countless times, it still gives me chills and reminds me how damned amazing Queen are.
Wonderful to watch a new generation appreciate the musical genius of this unique band. Thank you again ❤
Can't afford to go to big concerts anymore, but my last one was £24 for a ticket, that was to watch the Beastie Boys before MCA died
Just bear in mind, great as this performance was, it was not 'the greatest live performance of all time' as I often see written - great as it was, it is possibly the greatest short performance. But it's not even Queen's greatest live performance (though the most famous)
Every full Queen show was better: two hours, full lighting, full sound, full set, Freddie's throat not sore (as it was here), just a full on rock show. As Freddie once said, "we're the Cecil B. De Mille of rock and roll!"
How do I know a full Queen show was better? Because I saw them live, four times, between 1980 and 1984.
Would loved to have seen them live in the 1970s, but they were probably at their peak and best live between 1980-1982.
Incredible experience. The closest you can get to experiencing what it was like is to see the full Montreal show from 1981, in IMAX and sound surround, if it's shown again in cinemas. The sound has been remastered. I saw it this year at an IMAX, in January, and it took me right back to December 1980, Wembley Arena, London, as a long haired 18 year old at my second big gig! (my first was AC/DC one month before)
Right. I saw them live in 1982 and 1984 in Germany. Hot Space and the Works tour. Incredible experience!
Live Aid is not my favourite concert, as great as it was, as you say. No doubt.
But Montreal 81 and Wembley 86 were imho so much better. Would have loved to see the 1981 Montreal concert at IMAX, but it was not possible for me in January this year. But hopefully they'll show it again sometime!
The difference then no one had phones so there hands were free no flashing of the camera the best band off all time
Queen with Adam Lambert at the isle of wight festival 2016. Most moving song, Who Wants to Live Forever.
We'll definitely have to do some Adam Lambert era vids!
1.8 billion people watched Live Aid aroung the world on that day. The cause was brilliant and everyone one so into it.
went to this and next week i am off to download again at the age of 63 i keep saying no more but you never know lol
I love that!
I hope you enjoy download 😊
John comes across chill but in reality he doesn’t feel comfortable in the public eye and has a full bar in the back and drinks a little during the show probably to get through his anxiety. He is sorely missed now. That Queen has continued without Freddie.
No back track all live .I love seeing the young ones hearing Queen !1.5 billion that day watched this.They gave it they’re all.
The unofficial 5th member of Queen is Spike Edney who took over guitar and piano /keyboard duties for Freddie when he’s on the mic
I couldn't get tickets, but my friends and I were watching in a pub nearby. When Queen came out, the entire street filled. We sang our hearts out. It is impossible to explain the feeling. But I'll never forget it.
Spike Edney played keyboards off stage and he’s still with them to this day.
When they play Crazy Thing Called Love check Brian he in the course of the song plays 3 (yes 3) different guitars
I saw Queen with Freddie about a dozen times over the years - not at Live Aid though. I never had to pay for tickets because I married the bass player’s sister. I saw Bowie on the Ziggy Stardust tour - the ticket was exactly £1!
So you are married to John Deacon's only sister Julie? You are his brother- in-law?
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And Freddie did that with a throat infection!
Hi Guy's don't know if you have seen Green Day crowd singing Bohemian Rhapsody before there concert starts ? But that's impressive too, Such a following even today, RIP Freddie, ATB Wayne ...............👍
Fred Mandel, a Canadian, helped on on keyboard from 82 to 84, then Spike Edney from 84 on.
Thank you
Went to the Freddie Mercury tribute concert in 92,I still have the ticket stub at £70, alot of the tickets were £25, but it was worth every penny. Shout out from Manchester...
Love this performance❤
If I remember correctly, ... the ticket price was only £5 with a £20 donation added on or something like this! < worth every penny! :)
P.S.: 5th member of Queen is Spike Edney on keys / 2nd guitar ...
You guys had mentioned the camera man participating during Radio Ga Ga. Everyone had their eyes on Queen. Did you happen to notice the security guys in the yellow shirts? They weren’t making sure no one was going to run up to the stage. They were watching Queen’s performance!
Worth noting the the crowd didn't know queen was there as they were not announced till just before the show. He does the call and response at every concert. Now I'm here at Wembley Saturday 86 and Liar 1977 singing a song from their first album,each member get a chance to shine both of them will show you how they rock and audience. Just subscribed 😊
perhaps Brian has such a unique sound because he built his guitar with his father when he was in his teens? He also uses an amplifier that John constructed - - AND he is a genius - literally - has a doctorata in astrophysics - - and works with NASA. Last year he was knighted for all his accomplishments - there are several.The guitar is called "The red special".
I'm glad you loved the "eeh oh" moment, but I have to say that my favourite rendition of it is at the Wembley concert 1986, just before they sing "Under Pressure". You can tell that Freddie is really trying to catch the audience out, but when they do keep up he jokingly says "f*** you!" and they all applaud in appreciation. There'll never be another Freddie!