Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - American Girl (Live Aid 1985)
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- Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers performing at Live Aid in front of 100,000 people in the John F. Kennedy Stadium, Philadelphia USA on the 13th July, 1985. The event was organised by Sir Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for the Ethiopian famine disaster. Broadcast across the world via one of the largest satellite link-ups of all time, the concerts were seen by around 40% of the global population.
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BAND AID - How the Money is Spent
In the financial year to 30 November 2024 Band Aid has awarded grants of £3m across 16 projects to date.
Activities in 2024 include:
Provision of life saving medicines and medical supplies
Access to basic healthcare for rural communities
Strengthening the support of health services in Tigray
Therapeutic food for malnourished children and vulnerable adults
Emergency grain supplies
Drought resistant crops
Income generating activities and vocational training
Construction of basic housing to support old and vulnerable people
Construction of emergency shelters for refugees
Provision of clean water and sanitation training across multiple refugee camps in Ethiopia
Training to prevent gender-based violence in communities
Hygiene and sanitation support for adolescent girls
Construction of schools and libraries, and provision of classroom furniture
Cash distributions for vulnerable households
Rehabilitation of boreholes and wells for schools and communities
School feeding programmes in Tigray to support children returning to education
The estimated number of beneficiaries totals more than 350,000 people.
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I was 17 and in that crowd. The worst thing about being young is, you don’t really know the big moments in your life when they’re happening. (Sure, we’ll have concerts like this all the time!) Yeah, right. One of the highlights in a day full of highlights.
18 and in that crowd
Amazing!!!
DUDE! How cool was it?
@@billystutz55 technically it was not as hell until they turned on the fire hoses. But it was one of the best days of my life. To be 17 again …
Ain't that the truth. 20 years go by in the blink of an eye and you realize how good you had it then
Sometimes I can't believe that Tom Petty is no longer with us. But his music will always be alive.
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We saw him in concert 4 months before he passed. Such a great night.
I wake up sometimes and remember he’s gone and I want to go right back to bed.
Same. Complete shock when he passed.
Totally agree. Toms unexpected passing left a huge hole in the world.
This song should be America’s Rock & Roll anthem ….
This song should be everybodie's rock'n'roll anthem!!!
@@stevendimmock4791
No doubt it’s on a list of the all time greats!
You are so right my friend.
Literally my favorite song RVRR
I was there. I'm the one he kept giving the finger to. I am blessed. RIP Tom Petty.
And I was the guy who shouted to bono at parkhead Glasgow. We'll stop fuc*ING clicking your fingers then when he said every time I click my fingers a child in Africa dies. A meme that is universally known.🤭🏴
I'm 65 so I've listened to this band from the beginning. I never could fully understand when people would get distraught when celebrities passed away. When Tom passed, it hurt deeply and I'm fairly sure I shed a tear or two. I realized I was mourning for myself as well, for the 40+ years that have passed since I first heard this song. This was a great musician and a road map of my life.
I think Tom would love to of heard about the day my two teenage boys were in the car with their mother. She likes pop and keeps up with most of it. She was going through the radio channels this day and went past one and both boys said, "Go back, that was Tom Petty." That was a sign I've done something right as a dad.
amazing comment brother
We don't have to know them personally to be lovingly touched in musical and magical ways where we have pure bliss!
São essas simples coisas que fazemos que marcam profundamente nossos corações...parabéns...
Good Job Dad!!!
I’m an old man now (69) but my kids are the same way (27 &33)
They have said often, “Man, y’all had some Great Music Dad!”
I LOVE THAT!!!!!!
I'm right there. They pass off one by one. I'm next up. Why haven't I gone already?
1:10 Tom flipin the bird to 1.9 billion live viewers. Rock n Roll, man.
No he was flippin the bird at me...I went back in time from 2018 to 1985 I gave my younger version of me..14 at the time .. my iPhone and he took a picture of tom ..! While I held a sign that said YOUR MUSIC SUCKS..! I’ve never felt so proud from getting the finger from Tom Petty..! Wow!..:)
Ricardo Torres wow....
Yeah ..even stranger Scott me and my younger version of me ..went back stage saw Madonna..drinking on Pepsi ..went up to her introduced myself...showed my iPhone..went to RUclips ..to show her what she look like at 60
..she fainted ..me and my younger version stole her panties I went back in time in 1994 gave them to Dave Letterman ...! And that’s how the hatred between the 2 started ..on his show in 1994 ..! They didn't know it was me..! Man time traveling is cool..!
Tom Petty said he was flipping someone off backstage. He said that the song was a last-minute addition when the band realised that they would be the first act to play the American side of the concert after the London finale and "since this is, after all, JFK Stadium"
Nah he was flipping me off I’m pretty sure!
I got to meet Tom Petty and he was so cool. Nothing fazed him. Such talent.
Mike Campbell is one of the most underrated guitar players. He’s incredible.
Not underrated, you just don’t know
@ I’ve been a fan a long time. I just haven’t come across a great deal of praise or recognition except for that which was uttered by Tom Petty.
Solid
And a great songwriter
He comes across as a thoroughly nice bloke too. I am friends with him on Facebook and he is always giving hints and tips on how to play songs (not like many other professionals who keep their secrets to themselves).
"American Girl" will always be an anthem for all of us women who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. Tom will always have a place in our hearts.
Agreed. We had the best music.
Only for girls in the usa !,,,,
I would second that. He liked women we were people. I survived that period not unscathed so yes absolutely.
@@EvelynBaron Me, too. The biggest heartbreak of my life started in the '70s. Still, I loved the time period. Most of my music reflects it. Take care! G.
@@gwynnielsen5081 ❤❤🎶🎶
Whenever my daughter meets people who don’t know who Tom Petty is, she always rolls her eyes. 😂🤣😘
Anyone who wears those glasses with those sideburns doesn't give a single damn what anyone thinks lol
pre cell phones, no soc.media, no fucks given,80's baby
The big teeth complete the perfection
@@Mrbrownstone1028 and the wispy moustache
the glasses were to hide the massively dilated pupils after smoking best quality Morocco Hashish
Those glasses are really Roger McGuinn.
I am in that crowd....great moment from an incredible show.
During the camera pan of the audience, I wondered how many comments I'd see from people who were actually there! So cool.
@@lucygirl4926 I've looked for myself for years! Still never found myself. But it was a surreal, amazing show.
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Woooooooooooooooow~ 부럽다 >,.
I was there. I remember it was brutally HOT
One of the best bands ever... period.
Right on ❤️❤️ I miss Tom every single day of my life. Greetings from Madrid and merry Xmas ✌️✌️
So under the radar as best American bands of all time imo
@@silviojoseperedacortes7029 me too
@@seancotter9156 a warm hug from Madrid Spain and keep listening to the best RnR ever, 🤟🤟
They certainly stole the show that day, they were smokiin!
Nice to catch in a small venue like this
Yes, I agree. Can’t beat it for intimacy, and the sense of almost being on stage with the performers.
🤣
Wow
I was 30 rows back....greatest single day of my youth!
HarmonicTrading ya they don’t build venues like they used to
Spectacular
Such a tremendous loss. Still missed to this day.
I'm 51 and this song makes me feel good like it did almost 40 years ago. RIP Tom.
Oh how I loved Tom Petty. I finally went to see him not long before he passed. I went alone. I did not care. Just had been on my bucket list for so long! When life gets tough, Tom Petty pulls me back from the deep end. RIP you talented man. You were in the soundtrack of my life!
I have to believe that Tom Petty is in heaven with a harem of millions of women and I want to join their ranks when I die!
I was there! One of the million ants cheering my head off to see Tom Petty about half a mile away from me! Glad I could see it up close now on RUclips, LOL!
You were at the location of a huge part of USA history! Thank you and what a memory you must have!
It was my 24th birthday and I was about to become a dad for the first time in August 85😊
How many kids do you have now?
I love this guy, wether he's gone or not , was the fave and is my favorite still of all.
I’m 31. I got my dad tickets to see Tom Petty in Philly. My dads never seen him but showed me all his music. Didn’t know it would be his last time in philly
One of the great rock and roll songs of all time.
It’s up there for sure! 25 but like this music over my generations music.
@@jamesr2164id say, like Bo Diddley’s who do you love and iggy pop’s The Passenger it’s one of the most copied tunes out there
Rip Tom Petty, thank you for all the years of entertainment. You were truly gifted beyond words
Damn I miss Tom petty. We are losing, and have lost so many wonderful artists. Rest, Tom petty . Mr. and Mrs. WARD.
I was just thinking the same thing while listening to this
Life is so short bud
I agree.
Toby Keith, Jimmy Buffet, Glenn Frey, Randy Meissner, Tom Petty. Hard to believe all that talent gone
Tom Petty was the epitome of what the American classic rock-n-roll artist should look, and sound like.
We need a Tom Petty movie
Starring Jon Heder
Chad Moore I could get behind this!
@@AlternateJunkie ruclips.net/video/Z-wXfnX5enk/видео.html Not a film and I guess you've seen it but this is quality - ruclips.net/video/Z-wXfnX5enk/видео.html
100%.
A fricken men!
I’m glad I was able to experience Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in Tulsa, OK in 1979; at the Old Lady on Brady! The Fabulous Poodles opened. Drummer Stan Lynch is the “workhorse” of the band. Tulsas favorite son, Mr Leon Russell signed them to his Shelter Records label. There’s something magical in the water in TTown as we turn out some fabulous musicians.
One of the most fun concerts I ever went to was Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers in Milwaukee on July 5th, 2017, with my dad. It was a 40th anniversary tour so they played only the hits, and the whole audience was just dancing and singing and you could smell the weed that was a few rows down. It was a feel-good concert that was so much fun, and sadly he passed away just a few months later. Still one of my all time favorite memories, and the concert alone definitely made Tom Petty my favorite rock star!
I saw Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on Damn the The Torpedoes Tour around 1977 i think at the Universal Theater and had really bad seats so me and my friend got down to the front row and that was cool ,then the security guard busted us.....but he did not kick us out!Just told us
To go back to our seats ....he played the most of that album,that was before they put a roof on it summer night just great stuff
I saw the tour in Cleveland. I had no idea I was watching the last run of shows of one of America’s greatest songwriters.
I was at that show, too. Drove up on a whim that morning and was so glad I did.
Tom doing his thing doesn't get any better than this fans truly miss this icon.
Diggin the horn hits.
I vividly remember watching this live. Absolutely one of the greatest bands ever. Petty was such a genius.
Love this man… he was an amazing writer and musician. Missing him🙏
I met Tom , he was the color of creative love and music that reached out to so many people, especially in Florida. We deeply miss him
What an icon. Incredible song writing. The beauty is in the simplicity. So sad I never got a chance to see him live.
Saw him 3 times. TOTALLY entertaining artist! Not just a performer, but a real artist who shared his genius with each and every person present!
You can argue they were the greatest American Rock n' Roll band in history. When Tom passed, I felt a sadness that I usually don't in terms of celebrities. Thank you Tom, I got to see ya once :) I still remember...
Right there with you.
Amen brother
I did too!!!
Got to see them live 4 times all around the Tampa St Petersburg / Lakeland Civic Center area good times and tickets were about $ 7:50 to 10:00 bucks beer $1:00 gas 89 cents a gallon weed 25 dollars half ounce
This comment is wrong.
You can't *argue* that they were the best American rock n' roll band
They ARE!
I’m so glad Tom petty flicked me off that day ….!
Today is my Sabrina's birthday, happy birthday in Heaven to my American Girl. I love you and miss you
He learnt the gift of turning emotions into the gift of music
IT PUTS THE LOTION IN THE BASKET
Thats a good precious
Petty, awesome lamb chops! We can't live forever, but hope Petty and the Heartbreakers do. They literally rock! Forever!
crazy how good the quality is and sound that translates to 2023 and beyond
Saw Petty & the Heartbreakers in Hammersmith ‘O’ 1977 - 2nd billing to Nils Lofgren. Tom P & his band blew us all away - he never looked back, becoming a huge internationally acclaimed band - rightly so. Glad I saw them then - they were modest in their initial opening, but it didn’t take them long to show us ‘they were IT’.
Thanks for this clip.
Love to all, JaneR
I just love that this song has reached so many generations.... just a great timeless song....
😂👍
All the goodness Tom Petty brought to the world, he gave us all the goodness!
Who else is sheltering watching this great stuff? 2020
Guilty! Freddie, Tom, George and David all left such amazing music behind for us to enjoy. Stay safe and most importantly stay sane!
35 years ago today...this was 4 miles from my house!
Lynn Peirce - Very Cool. I bet you could hear it.
Me a 12 year old girl from Norway
Me. It would be nice if t.v. producers should play this whole concert on the tube instead of us watching bits and pieces of it.
Mike Campbell is the most underrated guitarist in history.
Spencer Morgan no sir.. that’d be MICK MARS
@@Mostafa20268 everyone knows who Clapton and Harrison are
@@Mostafa20268 give over
Indeed yes!
He’s underrated for sure. If Tom was the motor of this band Mike was the gas!
You might be cool, but you’ll never be Tom Petty cool until you can rock those sideburns and sunglasses.
I was there and 22. I agree with your comments. I watch these videos with amazement. What a gift it was.
The dress, the look, the style and voice. Such an icon.
Wow. What a beautiful man. Remember that day so well
If this song was released today, there would be a huge audience for it. Timeless.🌌🌠
All of us that know the world has gone mad.
People today don't deserve it.
I'm sorry sir, but you are wrong. If this song was released today it would not even get played on the radio. And how dare you think that anything should deter the radio stations from pushing taylor swift down the throats of the idiot masses. The reason that you and I love this is that we are older and were allowed to have free thought when we were young.
@@stevendimmock4791 Listen to Rick Beato. He has a reasoned point of view you would appreciate. And let's all be ... calm.
It's a fantastic song, but it didn't even chart in the US. No it wouldn't get played on the radio now, but it didn't get played on the radio then.
They all were so young and had no clue how many lives they'd touch
This is the best concert. That ever was.
I wanted so badly to be there! I knew it was going to be amazing and to see my favorite band along with so many other great people like Bob Dylan( we'll just skip right over Madonna) I was 19 years old almost 20 it would have been a dream come true!
I know many of you were there and I know it's something you've never forgotten. I didn't even if I had to watch it on MTV. Sadly so many of these great artists are gone now! Watching this is the way we can still bring the music to the Next Generation!
The Great American Rock N Roll Band - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Classic Rock N Roll
My kid got their whole gym class out of running laps around the track when the teacher said, “you don’t have to run if anyone knows who sings this song.” 😊
Me: 😎
Such a cool badass. Tom Petty makes you feel fine everytime.
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"badass" is the perfect label. thank you, made my day❣️
@@stacisandhas3937 You are badass too ;)
@@redcanband931, thank you😘
It was so wonderful what these musicians did at live aid to help the Africans go from lying on their back dying of hunger to getting up on their feet and fighting and killing each other in the many wars that commenced after 1985! Some of those wars are the Eritrean-Ethiopian War-1998 and the The Lord’s Resistance Army Insurgence-1987, the Rwandan Genocide-1994, and the
Somali Civil War-1991 Just to name a few! Yes that free food/Aid concert in 1985 helped fuel many years of pain and misery and bloodshed in Africa
He was an American Boyee ... raised on imagination who brought enlightenment to many 😊😋🎶🤗✌️🌊🌞 Thanks Tom...
Random thoughts - I love the jacket Tom is wearing and I'd love to be the guy standing on the scaffold in the background!
I always loved Stan Lynch's method of winding the Heartbreakers' songs down during his tenure.
I'm a big fan of TP and the Heart breakers. For some reason though I'm mad at Tom and I don't know why. Hell I'm man enough to admit I cried when he passed away..
back in the days of real music
Saw Tom for the first time at the paramount theater in Seattle in 1979. The local radio station KISW gave away Tom Petty tuxedo jackets to the first 300 people inside, I still have mine, I’m 62 now . Damn where has the time gone. Sad Tom is gone now.
I was at that show as well,right after XMas 1979, Damn the Torpedos tour. Missed out on the jacket as my friend locked his keys in the car and we had to wait for a locksmith. Cheers!
I was just an American girl when I discovered Tom , I was bout 13 I guess ,, way back then just turned 57 ,, still lookin ,, for that place ,,
This is a beautiful song original version is magical. Gotta love Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
Fantastic band: The hammond of Benmont Tench, the back vocals of Howie Epstein and the guitar of Mike Campbell are amazing. RIP HE.
A friend of mine with two Phds who knew the whole band for years spoke to Howie about trying to help him get off Heroin. By that time, it had dug so far into him that I guess he hadn't the strength to get out. I saw a show where he looked so bad I'd cross the street thinking he'd mug me. It's a testament to building neuronal blueprints that he could still play with the band. Really sad.
Howie was such a great addition to any band with his backing vocals and tight bass lines. His passing was very sad indeed as was Tom’s of course. This band was so great.
Remember the young lady singing this song in the silence of the lambs.
god I love to see him jammin that Rickenbacker..I wore out Damn the Torpedos..My mom even loved Toms music
I was 75 years old in that crowd so amazing
Had the pleasure of meeting him and doing a press day with him when I worked for his record company in the late 70’s. Such a lovely guy.
I just can’t believe that was 35 years ago. We miss you Tom! Damned aging process creating all this reflection......Tom flippin the bird snaps ya right out of it! Thanks Tom!
I remember back in the early 80s me and a couple buddies went to see him every time he came close to St Louis right around the time Damn The Torpedoes came out. People were saying who’s Tom Petty. We knew. A year later everyone else did too. Then they knew why we were such fans
I think about this song every time I drive down old 441 in Gainesville
That right there is the only live aid the world ever needed! 😍
1985...When the world had Live Aid and Aids. But no Covid19...Peace and love people!!! Stay healthy!!! RIP King Tom Petty!!!
AIDS was worse than Covid.
@@BLTKellys That depends on "your" perspective of "worse".....It's certainly worse for those infected, but it's not worse for the masses that do not engage in risky contact with carriers or even by breathing their exhale...Covid is airborne and HIV/AIDS is not.
Tom and Heartbreakers are my wounded knee cause i never went to see them.. Now it has been couple of years impossible. Love them and missing Tom
Turn on Petty at anytime, instant happiness.
We took our 4yr old daughter to see Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in '95. She has loved his music since. Truly missed and loved Tom Petty ✌️❤️🌼
His posters were all over my bedroom walls when I was a senior in high school. 1983. Tommy Petty lives on forever !
Thank you for causing a Malthusian crisis in the Third World Live Aid,,, very cool!
"God its so painful"...watching this kicks performance knowing he is gone....RIP TP
Holy shit Tom Petty flipped the bird on the entire 1 million fans. Yesssss I love you Tom petty
This is absolute fire
Last time I heard that Live was at Fenway...it was Tom's encore and tribute to Boston and I will try and quote from Tom " We were just starting out but we're getting no traction and a buddy of mine called and told me...they are playing your song up in Boston " the song was....An American Girl 😢
Was there at Wembley UK.Was EPIC and A good World effort to come together and HELP THOSE IN NEED! THANKS TOM AND THE HEARTBREAKERS FOR ALL THE BRILLIANT TIMES AND TUNES!
This was recorded in Philadelphia at JFK.
Jfk stadium....the spectrum and the vet. All gone...like this era of music 😢. What a day for rock..thanks Bob.
RIP the coolest man in rock history his duets with Stevie Nicks bring tears to my eyes.
Keith Isaacs
Insider is beautiful. Did you know that Fleetwood Mac(with Mike) play Free Fallin with Stevie on lead vocal at every performance now?
The first time I ever heard of this was when I first watched the silence of the lambs when Catherine martin was listening to it in the car and immediately fell in love with it 😊
I remember this day. It was over 90 and they were watering down the fans.
Wow, that was amazing, that was true rock and roll energy at the end.
On July 13th, 1985, I finally was able to discern "Out on 441...". We spent hours and hours in college trying to decipher what he was saying. I will never forget that day, watching the concert in my shitty apartment with about 20 friends. Oh to be young again.
I was 20 years old in 85. The night before Live Aid a bunch of us were hanging out in local bar in Little Neck Queens. 12 of us got into 3 cars& drove to Philadelphia and had an amazing experience ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
What a great performance of an American anthem. Kudos!
Six years before "Silence of the Lambs" made this song even more epic than it already was.
Man this music and these players... this will turn into a treasured religion.
If you go deep enough you’ll find that it’s all there... and you’ll “get it”on a subtle level.
This performance flashed it’s colours.
I saw Tom Petty play live in Tampa the day before this .. Can't believe it has been nearly forty years...😢
One of the best concerts I ever went to.
Unnaturally clean sound for a live performance.