Once I can get clearance, I will release the reaction to the full live performance. Be mad at YT lol, They’re copyright system is wild. This is why we did it separately.
He found out he was dying right around this concert. He was the most amazing artist then and now years after his death. And by the way most of Bohemian Rhapsody had absolutely no meaning it was about his musical imagination!
This! I was so excited to see you reaction to this entire performance, and I’m disappointed. Please do the whole thing. It’s perhaps the best live performance in rock history. No one commanded an audience like Freddy could.
Queen was added to this concert last minute. Freddie was already diagnosed with HIV . It was televised too. Freddie was a hugh performer. He loved the crowds.
@user-hr7li6mg2e they had that on the film, but may not have been correct IRL. Wikipedia, if correct, dates the diagnosis to 1987 whereas Live Aid was in 1985.
Queen's Live Aid Concert is considered the best rock concert of the century and Freedie Mercury the best voice and front man of all rock bands. RIP A LEGEND
No. A strong case could be made for it being the best short performance, but as someone who saw Queen live with Freddie multiple times - full 2 hour show, full songs, full amplification, lights and effects - every Queen live show was better than this. There's no doubt this is a classic performance, but it's not and never has been acknowledged as the best rock concert of the century. There are also many other great live performances over time by other artists. If we are talking appearances at multiple artist events where each artist/band has a short time slot, then yes, this is up there as one of the greatest or even the greatest.
Freddy had the crowd in the palm of his hand, and that wasn't even a queen crowd, the Live Aid gig for Africa was lots of bands and artists doing a 20 minutes set each. Queen stole the show on that day, blew all the other bands away.
The medical community did the best they could with the knowledge they had aids is no longer a death sentence because of drugs and doctors azt was among the first your very un informed or possibly uninformed on these issues
IIRC, wasn't Live Aid simulcasted to multiple stadiums around the world? The whole thing was massive, especially for its day. Broadcasting around the world was a bigger deal back then.
Wembley Stadium holds 90,000 😁 you should watch this entire performance! I love this group! 😊 and I love Freddie! He was ahead of his time and lost too soon! ❤️🔥✌🏻🫶🏻
@karensilver6694 as a teenager me and my friends went up there. We were 14-15yrs old. JFK stadium is about 10 minutes from my home. We didn’t have tickets so we sat outside and listened for a couple of hours, the parking lot of thousands of us who couldn’t get in but wanted to be apart of this event still had a great time. That stadium no longer exists but from Wembley to Philly that many great artists and what that day was about will live forever!! RIP Freddie you are the GOAT!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻💯
The fact that this is not a queen crowd, the response they got was out of this world. About in ears, Freddie in an interview said that the crowd was so loud, they had to rely on their stage craft, by looking at each other to get through their set. The set was supposed to last 20 minutes, which when you watch it, you see the lights changed from yellow to red which cut the sound out. So far the set had lasted 20 minutes and 39 years .
I was part of that crowd a boiling hot day and a crowd that in all honesty wasn't Queens crowd as they were given a slot at the last moment. The crowd were there to see acts like the then up and coming U2 Bowie and many others . Queen hadn't played live for some time and their sales were on a downward slide . When Freddie took the stage he owned us , he could work a crowd like no other . To have over 80,000 people clap in unison to Radio Ga Ga was a sight to behold ,if anyone there wasn't fan before they went there they were a fan afterwards. It was awesome.
As someone that was there on that day. You have to remember it wasn't 70,000. Queen fans in the crowd, in fact Queen were one of the last bands signed for the show. So to get 70,000 people that weren't necessarily there to see his band just shows what an awesome showman Mr Mercury was. You should react to their full set.. they literally stole the show.
Queen was added to the line up of Live Aid at the last minute....this was Freddie working in front of a crowd that didn't even know Queen was going to be there!
I was lucky to be one of the 90,000 who were there that day, it was unreal , never seen anything like it again and never will. Freddie was a true entertainer RIP.
I can not say this loud enough. When Queen took the stage, the concert was tanking and no one wanted to see Queen. And there were a billion people watching on Pay-per-View. Queen DELIVERED here. Freddie took the stage and brought the audience TOGETHER, all billion of us.
It was broadcast for free. I hate to break it to you all these years later, but if you paid for it, someone stole your money. MTV and VH1 were simulcasting the London and Philadelphia shows. Only Australia saw the Australian show, which sucked. Anyway, it was free to watch.
@chrismorgan9153 we watched all of it free in the UK on the BEEB including the concert from Philadelphia it was on all day and all night. I didn't know there was a concert in Australia though.
@sharonwelsh8102 Since RUclips won't let me leave links, you can find out about it if you look up Oz for Africa. The lineup there included Men at Work, Little River Band, and INXS. The INXS performance is here on RUclips. If you like INXS, I will strongly recommend checking out that performance because they were awesome, the same as always.
ALSO, the concert was not tanking. There were bands for everyone and that’s why people went to stand for hours and hours to support their favourite groups’ generosity in donating their time!
Freddie was known for call and response in all their live shows. This was not a once off. React to the entire Live Aid Queen performance, best performance of the day 🎉❤
Oh dear God, Live Aid was huge, epic historic ...........!!!!!!! Please look it up and watch the entire Queen performance!!! It blew everyone at that time and beyond!
And don't forget the encore later that night but it's in a separate video. Make sure you don't pick the video that implies there is something else coming but cuts off.
The beauty of this performance is that this was NOT 70,000 Queen fans. This was an audience here to see Paul McCartney , The Who , The Rolling stones, and every UK artist you could name at the time for the Live Aid show, and Queen totally won them over.
In 2005, their Live Aid performance was named the greatest live rock performance of all time by a BBC poll, ahead of Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock and the Rolling Stones’ free gig in Hyde Park. It’s been described as 20 minutes that changed music.
172,000 people in attendance and 1. 9 watching from around the world. Freddie performed against doctor’s orders with a throat infection. Freddie said it felt like broken glass when he sang. Live Aid made 124 Million dollars for famine in Africa. When the boys left the stage a Prince from Dubai donated 1 million dollars.
This video NEVER gets old. It's always a pleasure to see Freddie Mercury perform. It's insane to think that this happened 40 years ago. And still remembered as one of THE best performances ever. Keep in mind, the 70thousand you are referring to? Are only the ones in the stadium. This was broadcast world wide. The actual audience was in the BILLIONS. You should watch the entire clip. They did multiple songs.
You need to react to the full 20 minutes of Queens's set. Freddie had 70,000 fans in the crowd and 1.5 billion watching around the world in the palm of his hand that day. Great reaction as usual my friends and Peace out ✌️ ☮️ 🙏
As someone who has lived through the entire AIDS epidemic you have to understand that every type of treatment that came about was experimental and AZT was the first option. You signed waivers saying you understood this may/may not work. For everyone alive and infected at that time, this was a glimmer of hope in the darkest of days. Not everyone took AZT, but it definitely worked better than praying…. Just saying
Another magnificent Queen moment is when they played Rio de Janeiro for the first time. They didn’t really expect the Portuguese speaking crowd to be too familiar with their music but when they broke into Love of my Life, Freddie just stopped singing and the whole crowd sang the song all the way to the end. Magical moment (can be seen on RUclips !)
Freddie is/was the best front man of all time!!! The way he worked a crowd, and that voice. Nobody comes close. THE GREATEST VOICE OF ALL TIME!!! RIP Freddie!!
There were so many awesome artists that played this live aid concert, Freddie Mercury and queen was one of the best. I think it would be very beneficial for you to watch the entire concert with all the artist it’s awesome.
Each group had just 20 minutes to play. Queen's set timed in at 20 minutes and 12 or 13 seconds from walk on to thank you, goodnight! That was thanks to Roger Taylor's impeccable timing on the drums. It's still considered one of the best live performances ever. What song? All of them! You need this experience. You want this experience. You deserve this experience. Queen was far and away the best group - even a reunion of Led Zeppelin wasn't able to catch that honor. Elton John and Queen were great friends. Elton came up to Freddie and something like, 'congrats wanker, you stole the f'ing show'. Freddie responded by asking what the f did Elton John have on his head?! It was a hat. Radio Gaga written by Roger Taylor was inspired by his kid's dislike of the radio. If you pay attention you can hear kaa kaa (poop in french) in there. Stephani Germanotta - aka Lady Gaga got her name from that song. Freddie said the instrument he played best was 'the audience'. Watch the whole dang thing guys!!
Apparently, being consummate professionals wanting to do well, they practiced for multiple days in a rented empty hotel. This contributed to their set being so tight and perfectly timed, never losing momentum.
Keep in mind, the whole world was tuned into this concert. Every bar, radio station, bowling alley, even stores, every TV. People called in and offered donations. Go from one house to another and you heard this live concert. Queen stole the show.
This is the perfect set. I want to put this into context. Queen had just finished a tour in May. They played a mix of old songs like "Bohemian Rhapsody", "We Will Rock You", and "We Are the Champions", which were ten, seven, and seven years old at this point, respectively. They played "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" from their 1980 album, And "Radio Gaga" and "Hammer to Fall" were hits that came out the previous year that were on the album that that tour was named after.
In Australia, we stayed up till the early hours just to see this concert. And queen just blew it away it was amazing. It's one of those moments you never forget. You simply must the whole 20-plus minutes of queen it's truly the best.
This entire set was timed down to the second, and Queen NAILED it. This is the greatest live performance of all time. You have to watch the whole thing to understand it.
As others have said, you NEED to watch the whole 22 minute set. It's going to leave your jaw on the floor. Supposedly, after he was done and left the stage, David Bowie was on next and looked at him and said, "I'm supposed to follow THAT???!!!"
BP you must see the whole performance , it was just 4 guys and their talent on stage nothing else ... no bells or whistles or lights just talent and no cell phone camera Freddie worked and owned that stage and crowd it still amazes me ,,, For me ,,,, Queen stole the whole concert and showed they still had it after many years
I've heard others say it stands for Microphone Controller, but yeah you are right it's master of ceremonies. I guess it doesn't really matter as they all basically mean the same thing!
@@MalcolmMXTaylor Of course it matters, you can't take a proper meaning for something and then nuance it to fit your narrative. That's just lazy, but I guess hip hop is with all the ripped samples they use.
I’M LITERALLY yelling at you to play “Radio”!!😂 The command Freddie has over his fans…ASTOUNDING TREMENDOUS! He IS the puppet master. OMG! I love Queen so much. PLEASE! Watch the whole thing. The movie Bohemian Rhapsody is fantastic.
@@antoinettelopes I know. I thought "click on it" and he would,then,see Freddie and the crowd then "Go on then" but they carry on then "COME ON!" and, eventually "Ffs CLICK ON IT!" lol
You need to do the entire Queen performance at Live Aid. Only like 20 minutes, and just a great example of Freddie's control of the crowd towards the end of his life.
Oh God please please please please please please please please,,,, play as much Freddie Mercury and queen as you can !!!!! That way these younger people will be able to hear the greatest voice and voice range that rock ever had !!!! Have loved your show ever since I first got on your channel. Always love your reactions, 70 year old southern woman here honey keep on doing what you're doing. DON'T let anybody ever tell you different. Much much love to you and yours. God bless and keep you.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
BTW this concert was *also* televised live around most of the globe, so the audience was much bigger than what's shown here. I watched most of the entire thing myself.
watch it all! It is epic!! My baby #2 was 6 moths old when Live Aid aired. She and her big brother and I were glued to the tv all day watching not realizing I was watching history in the making!
I’m so old I remember watching this as it was played love the first time, and it was a spine tingling hair raising performance that is never forgotten!❤❤❤
Biggest worldwide concert ever in history so far and there were over a Billion people in countries all over the world watching this in real time (plus another stage in Philadelphia with an even bigger stadium crowd). Freddie Mercury was advised by a doctor not to perform due to a severe throat infection but he did anyway and still sounded great. He said in an interview later it felt like he was gargling glass shards. The entire Queen performance should be watched in it's entirety to get the full effect. Also Brian and Freddie come back on stage at the end to sing Is This the World We Created but you have to find that video separately (a very appropriate song for the event).
My father was career military so I spent my HS years in then-West Berlin. I was lucky enough to see Queen twice, ‘82 and ‘84. Few Americans got a chance to see Queen live in the 80’s because they stopped coming to the U.S. Not so in Europe. What you and everyone saw at live Aid by Queen was just Queen and Freddie being Queen. Spectacular, yes. But that is always how Freddie worked a crowd, and how good Queen as a whole performed. To this day, those two concerts I saw them are at the top of my concert list. No one has ever beaten those performances. Please react to their whole Live Aid set. It’s like 20 minutes. No reactor I have seen has had a problem with posting it and keeping it up.
If you watch Queen at Rock N Rio singing "Love of My Life", the audience of almost 300,000 sings the first two verses to Freddie; and this was done by an audience whose native language is Portuguese, yet they sang to him in English.
If you do watch the actual concert, Queen gets 22 minutes to play, and they do six songs. And it's not just this example of Move the Crowd they do. During the songs, without a word, Freddie gets them clapping int he same rhythm he's clapping, or waving his hands. The entire concert does this in unison. Radio Gaga is one of the songs that this happens during.
There were close to 100,000 at Wembely Stadium and about 1 billion people watching or listening to the Live Aid Concert around the world. In the US the concert was broadcast on NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS and MTV, as well as AM & FM radio stations.
It was an amazing day and Queen stole the show. Remember that so many groups that audience is not just there for Queen. World wide coverage . A day I will never forget.
At the end, when he says "all RIGHT!" the audience says it back to him and it turns into a Queen gig for real. Every singer up to the 90s had to sing properly without hearing themselves, because that's how it worked; monitors that worked on stage were a luxury, you had to have proper confidence in what you were doing despite the stupid harmonics in your ears.
Queen live are incredible - watch Montreal 1981 - somebody to love, and Wembley 1986 - as well as their videos. Not to mention the Greenday audience London 2017 - a new generation singing Bohemian Rhapsody while the stage is being set up - 30 years after Freddie died.
Queen fans thrived on call and response with freddie. And freddie new that and loved it Freddie was asked in an interview what his favorite instrument was and he Responded " My audience my darling" R.I.P FREDDIE WE MISS YOU
Dude, you need to check out the entire performance from Queen at Live Aid. There are videos of the complete performance. It is considered by many to be the best live performance of all time, and I agree.
One of the greatest live performances ever. They hadn't performed together in years and it was amazing. Freddie was sick but didn't let anything get in his way.
You should react to this video of the crowd singing Bohemian Rhapsody while waiting for a Green Day concert to start. Its a large crowd, and it's very moving. It's beautiful.
I was lucky to see Queen several times in the 70s and 80s. They always had some kind of audience participation. The song, "We Will Rock You" , consisted of the entire audience stomping their feet twice , then clapping their hands once , repeat thru pretty much the whole song and ended , as it always led into, "We are the Champions" , which was a big sing along. Freddie liked to change costumes. You never see any photos of him in his black leather Daisy Dukes. That was all he wore . Maybe an earring and an arm cuff but that was it. LOL! RIP Freddie You are loved and missed.
Something you might find entertaining - Green Day, Hyde Park, London 3rd July 2017 - the 65,000 strong crowd sang a word perfect 'Bohemian Rhapsody' in the lead up to Green Day taking the stage - & Green Day kept the Drum Cam rolling & captured it all. Beyond glad that I was there. It's got over 33 million views on RUclips. Not bad for an empty stage & a crowd sing-a-long.
The single most amazing fact about the whole 22 minute set from Live Aid is that they only ran over their allotted time slot by 15 seconds! Watch the set and be in awe of greatness from four brilliant musicians.
You should have listened to the whole set, especially the Radio Gaga song if you want to see crowd interaction. Radio GaGa was immediately before the call/response. The rest of the band initially didn't want to include the call/response because it wasn't a Queen audience and they might not respond. Freddie wanted to include it and thank goodness he did.
I was in Phili for Live Aid and this was the very best 22 minutes of the ENTIRE DAY.. We in Phili had a larger crowd, were on our feet singing and reactin the same as the crowd in England. 72,000 in Wembley and 89,000 in JFK stadium in Phili. We use to wait for the engagement when Freddie was on the stage. You should watch the 25 min set end to end, it was interactive and seamless....And the,ABSOLUTE BEST ACT OF THE DAY!!!
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Once I can get clearance, I will release the reaction to the full live performance. Be mad at YT lol, They’re copyright system is wild. This is why we did it separately.
He found out he was dying right around this concert. He was the most amazing artist then and now years after his death. And by the way most of Bohemian Rhapsody had absolutely no meaning it was about his musical imagination!
And if you get the chance watch the entire performance in this concert
*BP* you have to check out david bowie's reciting of the lord's prayer in honor of his friend freddie after he passed away.
Maybe break it into multiple parts like Queen live part 1 part 2 part 3 need be and edit it around the songs.
@@NorthernShewolfno it was around 1987 when Fred found out he’s HIV positive not in 1985 during Live Aid
The whole Live Aid set by Queen is without doubt the best 22 mins of a live concert EVER. You should watch it all 😊
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I was just about to write that, so I totally agree. Their performance at Live Aid was insane.
Please do yourself a favor and react to Queens full set. Considered the best live performance.✌️❤️
I'm so bummed, I thought that was what we were gonna watch!! Yeah he needs to watch the whole Queen set, not just this little tease clip lol
This! I was so excited to see you reaction to this entire performance, and I’m disappointed. Please do the whole thing. It’s perhaps the best live performance in rock history. No one commanded an audience like Freddy could.
Freddie Mercury was once asked in an interview, "... and what instrument do you play?" He just responded, "The crowd."
Well, to be accurate, he said "The audience, darling. The audience."
Freddie actually said ‘ The Audience’ but that’s ok 😂✌🏼
Queen was added to this concert last minute. Freddie was already diagnosed with HIV . It was
televised too. Freddie was a hugh performer. He loved the crowds.
@user-hr7li6mg2e they had that on the film, but may not have been correct IRL. Wikipedia, if correct, dates the diagnosis to 1987 whereas Live Aid was in 1985.
@@kathydurow6814wiki is wrong
Queen's Live Aid Concert is considered the best rock concert of the century and Freedie Mercury the best voice and front man of all rock bands. RIP A LEGEND
There were 20+ Groups that day and Queen were a late addition and Freddie was told by his Doctor not to perform but they stole the show:)
No. A strong case could be made for it being the best short performance, but as someone who saw Queen live with Freddie multiple times - full 2 hour show, full songs, full amplification, lights and effects - every Queen live show was better than this. There's no doubt this is a classic performance, but it's not and never has been acknowledged as the best rock concert of the century.
There are also many other great live performances over time by other artists.
If we are talking appearances at multiple artist events where each artist/band has a short time slot, then yes, this is up there as one of the greatest or even the greatest.
Steve Perry is better
Not really. Lots of historical concerts by lots of legendary bands.
agreed, one of the best live performances ever
Freddy had the crowd in the palm of his hand, and that wasn't even a queen crowd, the Live Aid gig for Africa was lots of bands and artists doing a 20 minutes set each. Queen stole the show on that day, blew all the other bands away.
Absolutely
Worldwide, a billion people watched this concert...absolutely mind boggling
And how many viewers since YT and all these reactors finding this stuff??? It makes me happy that we didn't let our music die.
The medical community did the best they could with the knowledge they had aids is no longer a death sentence because of drugs and doctors azt was among the first your very un informed or possibly uninformed on these issues
Misinformed my bad
Close to 2 billion apparently! (1.9 billion)
IIRC, wasn't Live Aid simulcasted to multiple stadiums around the world? The whole thing was massive, especially for its day. Broadcasting around the world was a bigger deal back then.
Dead for over 30 years and still unmatched. RIP Freddie
Legends never die.
Indeed!
Wembley Stadium holds 90,000 😁 you should watch this entire performance! I love this group! 😊 and I love Freddie! He was ahead of his time and lost too soon! ❤️🔥✌🏻🫶🏻
Philly had 89,500 and 1.9 Billion watched live on TV.
I agree. The whole performance would be awesome 💯
Live aid was the old wembley and wasn't at full capacity because a stand was behind the stage.
72000 was the attendance at wembly during live aid. Like someobe else said, this was at the old wembly stadium. Still a huge show though
@karensilver6694 as a teenager me and my friends went up there. We were 14-15yrs old. JFK stadium is about 10 minutes from my home. We didn’t have tickets so we sat outside and listened for a couple of hours, the parking lot of thousands of us who couldn’t get in but wanted to be apart of this event still had a great time. That stadium no longer exists but from Wembley to Philly that many great artists and what that day was about will live forever!! RIP Freddie you are the GOAT!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻💯
The fact that this is not a queen crowd, the response they got was out of this world. About in ears, Freddie in an interview said that the crowd was so loud, they had to rely on their stage craft, by looking at each other to get through their set. The set was supposed to last 20 minutes, which when you watch it, you see the lights changed from yellow to red which cut the sound out. So far the set had lasted 20 minutes and 39 years .
I was part of that crowd a boiling hot day and a crowd that in all honesty wasn't Queens crowd as they were given a slot at the last moment.
The crowd were there to see acts like the then up and coming U2 Bowie and many others .
Queen hadn't played live for some time and their sales were on a downward slide .
When Freddie took the stage he owned us , he could work a crowd like no other .
To have over 80,000 people clap in unison to Radio Ga Ga was a sight to behold ,if anyone there wasn't fan before they went there they were a fan afterwards.
It was awesome.
As someone that was there on that day. You have to remember it wasn't 70,000. Queen fans in the crowd, in fact Queen were one of the last bands signed for the show. So to get 70,000 people that weren't necessarily there to see his band just shows what an awesome showman Mr Mercury was. You should react to their full set.. they literally stole the show.
Freddie had a bad throat and was told by a doctor not to perform but Queen did and smashed it.
Queen was added to the line up of Live Aid at the last minute....this was Freddie working in front of a crowd that didn't even know Queen was going to be there!
Haha Thank You.
I was lucky to be one of the 90,000 who were there that day, it was unreal , never seen anything like it again and never will. Freddie was a true entertainer RIP.
I can not say this loud enough.
When Queen took the stage, the concert was tanking and no one wanted to see Queen.
And there were a billion people watching on Pay-per-View.
Queen DELIVERED here.
Freddie took the stage and brought the audience TOGETHER, all billion of us.
It was broadcast for free. I hate to break it to you all these years later, but if you paid for it, someone stole your money.
MTV and VH1 were simulcasting the London and Philadelphia shows. Only Australia saw the Australian show, which sucked. Anyway, it was free to watch.
@chrismorgan9153 we watched all of it free in the UK on the BEEB including the concert from Philadelphia it was on all day and all night. I didn't know there was a concert in Australia though.
@sharonwelsh8102 Since RUclips won't let me leave links, you can find out about it if you look up Oz for Africa. The lineup there included Men at Work, Little River Band, and INXS. The INXS performance is here on RUclips. If you like INXS, I will strongly recommend checking out that performance because they were awesome, the same as always.
Um no. TV has always been free in Australia and I’m sure in lots of other countries…
ALSO, the concert was not tanking. There were bands for everyone and that’s why people went to stand for hours and hours to support their favourite groups’ generosity in donating their time!
Freddie was known for call and response in all their live shows. This was not a once off. React to the entire Live Aid Queen performance, best performance of the day 🎉❤
Oh dear God, Live Aid was huge, epic historic ...........!!!!!!! Please look it up and watch the entire Queen performance!!! It blew everyone at that time and beyond!
Well, I'm going to be watching it. TY for the info. Freddie's charisma is electrifying. The way he commands that crowd...Epic!
@@rubyslippers8215. Freddie was deeply loved here in the UK. He was beyond legendary to those of us who were young in the 70s and 80s.
@snowysnowyriver you're spot on, how lucky are we to have grown up with Freddie in our lives 🥰
And don't forget the encore later that night but it's in a separate video. Make sure you don't pick the video that implies there is something else coming but cuts off.
@@shirleyklein1770 yes yes yes
The beauty of this performance is that this was NOT 70,000 Queen fans. This was an audience here to see Paul McCartney , The Who , The Rolling stones, and every UK artist you could name at the time for the Live Aid show, and Queen totally won them over.
Please do the whole performance, best concert in history ❤
yes!!!!!
Watch all 20 minutes of this performance, please!!! You will LOVE this!!! 72,000 people in the palm of their hands.
One of the London newspapers reported "For 20 minutes, England had a new Queen."
In 2005, their Live Aid performance was named the greatest live rock performance of all time by a BBC poll, ahead of Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock and the Rolling Stones’ free gig in Hyde Park. It’s been described as 20 minutes that changed music.
You need to watch the whole Queen set. It was amazing. It’s about a half hour.
Lady Gaga loved the song Radio Gaga and took stage name from it.
all reactors do the whole show, what a bummer, you did about a minute and then talked 😢
You absolutely MUST watch the entire concert. It is life changing. Freddie was such a gift to us - he is missed.
Walks out and owns the crowd instantly, not too many singers can do it, Freddie was one of the best
172,000 people in attendance and 1. 9 watching from around the world. Freddie performed against doctor’s orders with a throat infection.
Freddie said it felt like broken glass when he sang. Live Aid made 124 Million dollars for famine in Africa. When the boys left the stage a Prince from Dubai donated 1 million dollars.
This video NEVER gets old. It's always a pleasure to see Freddie Mercury perform. It's insane to think that this happened 40 years ago. And still remembered as one of THE best performances ever. Keep in mind, the 70thousand you are referring to? Are only the ones in the stadium. This was broadcast world wide. The actual audience was in the BILLIONS. You should watch the entire clip. They did multiple songs.
I have watched sooo many reactions...but I love watching them discover and freak out on stuff they never heard of or thought would be lame.
You need to react to the full 20 minutes of Queens's set. Freddie had 70,000 fans in the crowd and 1.5 billion watching around the world in the palm of his hand that day. Great reaction as usual my friends and Peace out ✌️ ☮️ 🙏
*It was a full 22 minutes - with the limiters switched off on the amps sound systems, which the other bands didn't have the benefit of on their sets.
As someone who has lived through the entire AIDS epidemic you have to understand that every type of treatment that came about was experimental and AZT was the first option. You signed waivers saying you understood this may/may not work. For everyone alive and infected at that time, this was a glimmer of hope in the darkest of days. Not everyone took AZT, but it definitely worked better than praying…. Just saying
Exactly this.
Thank you! I found an Associated Press fact check article that confirmed what I remembered.
Yeah, but he’d rather call it a conspiracy and blame Fauci.
Relax y’all. Tin hat or not, dude has been around a lot of “stuff”. Coincidence? Sure, perhaps.
Fauci was the cause of many deaths during the AIDS epidemic. Do the research.
Another magnificent Queen moment is when they played Rio de Janeiro for the first time. They didn’t really expect the Portuguese speaking crowd to be too familiar with their music but when they broke into Love of my Life, Freddie just stopped singing and the whole crowd sang the song all the way to the end. Magical moment (can be seen on RUclips !)
Oh man, you need to watch their set from that day. It is known as the best rock performance of all time . There’s nothing else like it
Freddie is/was the best front man of all time!!! The way he worked a crowd, and that voice. Nobody comes close. THE GREATEST VOICE OF ALL TIME!!! RIP Freddie!!
Live aid was a magical day. That was the day that saw Phil Collins perform in Philadelphia and London on the same day. In ears are still years away
There were so many awesome artists that played this live aid concert, Freddie Mercury and queen was one of the best. I think it would be very beneficial for you to watch the entire concert with all the artist it’s awesome.
This was the greatest show set of all time.
Each group had just 20 minutes to play. Queen's set timed in at 20 minutes and 12 or 13 seconds from walk on to thank you, goodnight! That was thanks to Roger Taylor's impeccable timing on the drums. It's still considered one of the best live performances ever. What song? All of them! You need this experience. You want this experience. You deserve this experience.
Queen was far and away the best group - even a reunion of Led Zeppelin wasn't able to catch that honor. Elton John and Queen were great friends. Elton came up to Freddie and something like, 'congrats wanker, you stole the f'ing show'. Freddie responded by asking what the f did Elton John have on his head?! It was a hat.
Radio Gaga written by Roger Taylor was inspired by his kid's dislike of the radio. If you pay attention you can hear kaa kaa (poop in french) in there. Stephani Germanotta - aka Lady Gaga got her name from that song.
Freddie said the instrument he played best was 'the audience'.
Watch the whole dang thing guys!!
Apparently, being consummate professionals wanting to do well, they practiced for multiple days in a rented empty hotel. This contributed to their set being so tight and perfectly timed, never losing momentum.
@@D-me-dream-smp yeah, and Roger's drumming was impeccable! The set was nearly perfectly timed. Incredible artists 😎
I was not there, but I was watching live on tv. Amazing and hopeful.
20 min concert ... watch the entire Queen performance. Freddie held the world in the palm of his hand.
16 hour concert, 20 minute set.
@@robertobrien5709 okay .. the other 15 hrs and 40 mins were pretty dull by comparison.
@rhondaserges5136 I watched most of it live, although the rest wasn't up to Queens' standard far from dull.
Keep in mind, the whole world was tuned into this concert. Every bar, radio station, bowling alley, even stores, every TV. People called in and offered donations. Go from one house to another and you heard this live concert. Queen stole the show.
This is the perfect set. I want to put this into context. Queen had just finished a tour in May. They played a mix of old songs like "Bohemian Rhapsody", "We Will Rock You", and "We Are the Champions", which were ten, seven, and seven years old at this point, respectively. They played "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" from their 1980 album, And "Radio Gaga" and "Hammer to Fall" were hits that came out the previous year that were on the album that that tour was named after.
In Australia, we stayed up till the early hours just to see this concert. And queen just blew it away it was amazing. It's one of those moments you never forget. You simply must the whole 20-plus minutes of queen it's truly the best.
I was there at the grand old age of 11 years old, one of the best days of my life. I was also at the Live 8.
Wow...It must have been an amazing experience.
This entire set was timed down to the second, and Queen NAILED it. This is the greatest live performance of all time. You have to watch the whole thing to understand it.
As others have said, you NEED to watch the whole 22 minute set. It's going to leave your jaw on the floor.
Supposedly, after he was done and left the stage, David Bowie was on next and looked at him and said, "I'm supposed to follow THAT???!!!"
BP you must see the whole performance , it was just 4 guys and their talent on stage nothing else ... no bells or whistles or lights just talent and no cell phone camera Freddie worked and owned that stage and crowd it still amazes me ,,, For me ,,,, Queen stole the whole concert and showed they still had it after many years
MC stands for Master of Ceremonies... not move the crowd 🙄🙄
Absolute truth! I was like, "What made up nonsense is this?"
But the MC's entire job is to be a hype man in a way. Freddie was quite possibly the best MC in the world.
I've heard others say it stands for Microphone Controller, but yeah you are right it's master of ceremonies.
I guess it doesn't really matter as they all basically mean the same thing!
@@MalcolmMXTaylor Of course it matters, you can't take a proper meaning for something and then nuance it to fit your narrative. That's just lazy, but I guess hip hop is with all the ripped samples they use.
@@danwarb1 Well you have my sympathy
Definitely watch the whole 20 min set. 🔥
Oh my!!!! You HAVE TO SEE THE WHOLE 20 MINUTES that QUEEEN performed here!!! Your life will never be the same again. FREDDIE IS A LEGEND!!!!! 👑👑👑👑
I’M LITERALLY yelling at you to play “Radio”!!😂
The command Freddie has over his fans…ASTOUNDING
TREMENDOUS!
He IS the puppet master.
OMG! I love Queen so much.
PLEASE! Watch the whole thing. The movie Bohemian Rhapsody is fantastic.
Me too and there were 12 minutes left.He pulled it up,said he takes requests and chatted for 12 minutes...
They're like 'Rado Gaga? What's this?' And I'm like 'they're gonna click on it, they are gonna CLICK ON IT!!!' 😂🤦🏽♀️
@@antoinettelopes I know. I thought "click on it" and he would,then,see Freddie and the crowd then "Go on then" but they carry on then "COME ON!" and, eventually "Ffs CLICK ON IT!" lol
Yesss please
@@antoinettelopes yes!!!🤣🤣….aaand…🙄nope 😑
The whole set is approximately 20 minutes and is so much better to watch it all together 😊
Great reaction ❤
You need to do the entire Queen performance at Live Aid. Only like 20 minutes, and just a great example of Freddie's control of the crowd towards the end of his life.
Oh God please please please please please please please please,,,, play as much Freddie Mercury and queen as you can !!!!! That way these younger people will be able to hear the greatest voice and voice range that rock ever had !!!! Have loved your show ever since I first got on your channel. Always love your reactions, 70 year old southern woman here honey keep on doing what you're doing. DON'T let anybody ever tell you different. Much much love to you and yours. God bless and keep you.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
BTW this concert was *also* televised live around most of the globe, so the audience was much bigger than what's shown here. I watched most of the entire thing myself.
watch it all! It is epic!! My baby #2 was 6 moths old when Live Aid aired. She and her big brother and I were glued to the tv all day watching not realizing I was watching history in the making!
This set is 20 minutes well spent, I go back to rewatch it often. Freddie truly was the greatest.
I’m so old I remember watching this as it was played love the first time, and it was a spine tingling hair raising performance that is never forgotten!❤❤❤
Biggest worldwide concert ever in history so far and there were over a Billion people in countries all over the world watching this in real time (plus another stage in Philadelphia with an even bigger stadium crowd). Freddie Mercury was advised by a doctor not to perform due to a severe throat infection but he did anyway and still sounded great. He said in an interview later it felt like he was gargling glass shards. The entire Queen performance should be watched in it's entirety to get the full effect. Also Brian and Freddie come back on stage at the end to sing Is This the World We Created but you have to find that video separately (a very appropriate song for the event).
Bro, you have to watch the whole 22 minutes of the Live Aid concert. It is considered 22 minutes that changed rock history forever....
Freddie Mercury ❤❤❤❤❤❤
MC stands for MASTER OF CEREMONIES. :) :)
My father was career military so I spent my HS years in then-West Berlin. I was lucky enough to see Queen twice, ‘82 and ‘84. Few Americans got a chance to see Queen live in the 80’s because they stopped coming to the U.S. Not so in Europe.
What you and everyone saw at live Aid by Queen was just Queen and Freddie being Queen. Spectacular, yes. But that is always how Freddie worked a crowd, and how good Queen as a whole performed. To this day, those two concerts I saw them are at the top of my concert list. No one has ever beaten those performances.
Please react to their whole Live Aid set. It’s like 20 minutes. No reactor I have seen has had a problem with posting it and keeping it up.
If you watch Queen at Rock N Rio singing "Love of My Life", the audience of almost 300,000 sings the first two verses to Freddie; and this was done by an audience whose native language is Portuguese, yet they sang to him in English.
Love Queen great songs band Freddie Mercury beautiful voice man great talent
If you do watch the actual concert, Queen gets 22 minutes to play, and they do six songs. And it's not just this example of Move the Crowd they do. During the songs, without a word, Freddie gets them clapping int he same rhythm he's clapping, or waving his hands. The entire concert does this in unison. Radio Gaga is one of the songs that this happens during.
There were close to 100,000 at Wembely Stadium and about 1 billion people watching or listening to the Live Aid Concert around the world.
In the US the concert was broadcast on NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS and MTV, as well as AM & FM radio stations.
It was an amazing day and Queen stole the show. Remember that so many groups that audience is not just there for Queen. World wide coverage . A day I will never forget.
At the end, when he says "all RIGHT!" the audience says it back to him and it turns into a Queen gig for real.
Every singer up to the 90s had to sing properly without hearing themselves, because that's how it worked; monitors that worked on stage were a luxury, you had to have proper confidence in what you were doing despite the stupid harmonics in your ears.
Queen live are incredible - watch Montreal 1981 - somebody to love, and Wembley 1986 - as well as their videos. Not to mention the Greenday audience London 2017 - a new generation singing Bohemian Rhapsody while the stage is being set up - 30 years after Freddie died.
Apparently acts that were due on stage qfter queen said how can we follow that, and the ones that went on before were glad they did.
Omg, I never realized you’d not seen this before. If only I could have afforded a ticket to go see this live!
Queen fans thrived on call and response with freddie. And freddie new that and loved it
Freddie was asked in an interview what his favorite instrument was and he Responded " My audience my darling"
R.I.P FREDDIE WE MISS YOU
What a fantastic reaction dears! Thanks so much! Big hugs to you both from this huge Queen fan! ❤
A clip from '20 minutes that changed music', aka Queen at Live Aid. I watched it live, awesome day.
Dude, you need to check out the entire performance from Queen at Live Aid. There are videos of the complete performance. It is considered by many to be the best live performance of all time, and I agree.
That was just him warming up his voice. Got the crowd involved. It was epic.
One of the greatest live performances ever. They hadn't performed together in years and it was amazing. Freddie was sick but didn't let anything get in his way.
Yes, Queens entire 20 min set. Said, by many, to be among the best live performances ever...🙂
We HEAR you and AGREE wholeheartedly 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼RIP FREDDIE
Yes! I knew nothing about Queen until Wayne’s World! Bought their Greatest Hits as a result and became a better human being.
You should react to this video of the crowd singing Bohemian Rhapsody while waiting for a Green Day concert to start. Its a large crowd, and it's very moving. It's beautiful.
Watch the entire set. It's absolutely insane from start to finish.
Definitely, need to go into Radio GaGa....where the whole stadium is clapping in appropriate response
Like many others are saying, you have to react to the whole performance.
I was lucky to see Queen several times in the 70s and 80s. They always had some kind of audience participation. The song, "We Will Rock You" , consisted of the entire audience stomping their feet twice , then clapping their hands once , repeat thru pretty much the whole song and ended , as it always led into, "We are the Champions" , which was a big sing along. Freddie liked to change costumes. You never see any photos of him in his black leather Daisy Dukes. That was all he wore . Maybe an earring and an arm cuff but that was it. LOL! RIP Freddie You are loved and missed.
Remember watching this..Queen and Freddie were the BEST performance of the whole concert
Something you might find entertaining - Green Day, Hyde Park, London 3rd July 2017 - the 65,000 strong crowd sang a word perfect 'Bohemian Rhapsody' in the lead up to Green Day taking the stage - & Green Day kept the Drum Cam rolling & captured it all. Beyond glad that I was there. It's got over 33 million views on RUclips. Not bad for an empty stage & a crowd sing-a-long.
You should watch the video of the Green Day crowd singing Bohemian Rhapsody in Hyde Park.
Just to watch this part is criminal 😂
Please watch their whole 22 minute set from that day. It's considered the best rock performance of all time .
The single most amazing fact about the whole 22 minute set from Live Aid is that they only ran over their allotted time slot by 15 seconds! Watch the set and be in awe of greatness from four brilliant musicians.
You should have listened to the whole set, especially the Radio Gaga song if you want to see crowd interaction. Radio GaGa was immediately before the call/response. The rest of the band initially didn't want to include the call/response because it wasn't a Queen audience and they might not respond. Freddie wanted to include it and thank goodness he did.
Freddie saw the crowd was with him during radio GaGa so he decided to do the call/response after that.
@@fayeo2009 Well the set was timed very strictly so the time for it had been allowed for during rehearsals.
I don’t normally get chills listening to songs, but whenever I watch Queen’s live aid performance, I always get chills
Watch the whole damn performance!!! Radio GaGa is AMAZING!!!
I’ll always remember watching this live. It was incredible and you felt it to the core of your being.
You need to watch the whole live set
I was in Phili for Live Aid and this was the very best 22 minutes of the ENTIRE DAY.. We in Phili had a larger crowd, were on our feet singing and reactin the same as the crowd in England.
72,000 in Wembley and 89,000 in JFK stadium in Phili. We use to wait for the engagement when Freddie was on the stage. You should watch the 25 min set end to end, it was interactive and seamless....And the,ABSOLUTE BEST ACT OF THE DAY!!!
Watch the whole video it is freaking awesome ❤❤❤❤
The way Freddie captivated the masses leaves me in awe. I really wished I had the privelege of seeing him live. ❤❤❤
you should watch the Green day crowd singing bohemian rapsody
Oh I’ve been waiting on this, and also the Green Day video of the crowd singing Bohemian Rhapsody. I hope that’s next!