Freddie was Parsi Indian by ethnicity. He spent much of his childhood in Panchgani near Bombay. He was a gift to Britain and the nation mourned his early death.
72,000 people in attendance and 1.9 Billion people watching from around the world. Freddie performed against doctors orders with a throat infection. Live Aid made 140 million dollars for famine in Africa.
Amazingly, Freddie had a sore throat and his doctor had advised him not to perform. Then he turns in this performance, I doubt we’ll ever see his like again, an amazing showman.
In case you didn't know, this was a 12 hour benefit concert. Each band had a 20 minute set. It just happened to be that Queen's set was the best and no one wanted to follow them! The benefit was to raise money for starving people in Africa. It was on 2 continents: Philadelphia PA (USA) and London England. 1 billion watched all over the world.
"Born in 1946 in Zanzibar to Parsi-Indian parents, Mercury attended English boarding schools in India from the age of eight and returned to Zanzibar after secondary school. In 1964, his family fled the Zanzibar Revolution, moving to Middlesex, England. Having previously studied and written music, he formed Queen in 1970 with guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor."
Live Aid was a charity concert for Ethiopia and was on both sides of the Atlantic (London and Philadephia)..the best artists of the day had about 25 mins each for their set. Queen, although reasonably popular at the time just took it to another level with this performance and in 25 mins they acheived legendary status!
Freddie Mercury (lead singer) was born Farrokh Bulsara.. was born to British Indian parents, from Zanzibar There’ll be no-one ever again like Freddie.. My dad was a steward at this concert, Wembley stadium
I love the fact you are both loving this I was 34yrs at the time we will never get it back what a group what a performance the drummer was his back up but what a loss in our Freddie
I was 14 at the time and although I watched all I could on the TV, I was dismissive of just how immense the whole project was for the world. I've heard but don't know how true it is, that Bob Geldof said that the donations started pouring in after Queen performed.
Freddie was this amazing even after having laryngitis the week before. Once he was off stage he said it felt like he was singing with a throat full of glass shards. Freddie and Brian came back out to do the last song of the day, a beautiful but sad song called "Is This The World We Created". You can find it separately on RUclips.
Freddie Mercury lead singer diploma in Graphic Arts and Design, Sir Dr Brian May lead guitar PHD in Astrophysics, Roger Taylor drummer degree in Biology after changing from Dentistry, John Deacon bass guitar First Class Honours degree in Electronics all inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame all wrote number one hits, they were all multi instrumentalists, there you have Queen the band not just Freddie they were four equal parts love your reaction ❤❤
It is said that the renowned singer Lady gaga chose that name after listening to the song Radio Ga Ga, which is the second song in the concert.... Watching him for the first time, you guys were onto him from the word go.. you sang along for that eh oh part... that was his power.. in an interview when the host asked him what's your favorite instrument or something, he said the audience.. He loved including audience into his performance.. he made sure they're a part of it too.. The movie Bohemian Rhapsody is made about him and the band Queen.. One of the, if not the greatest singer and greatest performer of all time..!!! Also if possible watch Queen's performance - Somebody to Love live from Montreal 1981... the best ever live concert you'll ever see..
Everybody suggests montreal. Milton keynes, or the bowl, has a better rendition of Somebody to Love and Dragon Attack. It's a much more raw performance.
This was a 10 hour concert with the main venues at Wembley and then continued in the US, featuring many popular artists of the day. The TV broadcast was open to every country in the world to get as much funds for famine in Africa. The estimate number of people that tuned in was 2 billion, or at that time, a third of the planet!
I remember as a kid watching this and loosing interest in the rest of the concert . Who could top a performance like that? The greatest performance ever.
Later at night the singer and the guitarist returned on stage and performed an acoustic peace with the title "Is this the world we created..?" Great lyrics: "You know that everyday a helpless child is born - Who needs some loving care inside a happy home ... - If there's a God in the sky looking down - What can he think of what we've done ..."
I was present at Live Aid, the printing company I worked for produced posters and T-shirts for Live Aid, we donated our worktime and our boss bought us tickets, it was an amazing day! we were talking about it at work for months!
Concert for George is truly worth a look at. The first 45 minutes is Indian Music as George a member of The Beatles had a lot of music influence from India. From then you get Monty Python sketches on stage. The rest of the concert is Eric Clapton, Geoff Lynne, Ringo, Paul Mcartney , Joe Brown. Billy Preston, Danni Harrison Tom Petty and others singing most of George Harrison songs. A truly great tribute. So much content it wont fit on one revue.
I remember watching Live Aid live on TV in the 80’s - when this came on - I had much respect for Queen but this blew me (& everyone else) away. RIP Freddy Mercury - unreplaceable.
Great reaction, thanks! That was fun to watch with you! This performance was voted the best rock performance in history and stands today. I watched it live at home in the U.S. on tv. Best live band ever!
The greatest 20 minutes in the history of music! Queen practiced and prepared for three straight days for this event to insure they could deliver the intended music in the time span they had. 72,000+ fans at Wembley Stadium and viewed by 1.9 billion people across the world.
The audience in the old Wembley stadium was 72,000. There was another audience of 89,000 watching live via video link in the John F Kennedy stadium, Philadelphia and they joined in with the double handclap in Radio Ga Ga, although there was a half second transmission delay. (Sorry, I'm a nerd!)
Just so you know Freddie's doctor told him not to do this because he had an infection that was affecting his voice but he didn't want to let his fans down and ended up giving one of the best performance ever.
This has to be the best reaction video I have ever watch. Thank you for not stopping the video every few seconds or so to make a comment about the video. ❤😊
This concert always gives me goosebumps - and I remember watching this live on TV when I was young. It's been amazing watching you experience this and enjoy it so much as he was a gift to us from India!
I saw Queen several times beginning in 1975, have never seen anything like it before or since and never will. There will never be another Freddie, my angel 😘😇
May i suggest you react to a Jean Michel Jarre concert. Jarre a French electronic music composer and performer plays city's rather than stadiums. Its not unheard of for more than 3.5 million people to attend a show with 75 million watching live on TV and the internet. Astronauts on board the space station have been know to watch and join in the show live (Moscow) Even the Pope has been a support act lol. Jarre's performances are known not only for the fantasic music but also the visual spectacle. Fireworks, lights, lasers and skyscrapers being used as huge screens etc. Some you might want to consider are (in no particular order) ... Jean Michel Jarre live in Cairo Egypt The Twelve Dreams of the sun 1080 HD full screen repack That was his show Millennium eve at the pyramids. Oxygen in Moscow (full video) - Jean Michel Jarre Jean Michel Jarre live in Gdansk [complete concert, best quality available] Ect,ect. Theres so many i could never pick a favourite, there all so different.
Ethnically he was Parsi, but from age 8 he was given a british-style education at an anglican boarding-school (playing rock-music eben there) and lived in England from age 18 so he wasn't really Indian culturally.
Yes this was an Amazing concert and Freddy was already so ill with aidsdurong this time so awsome ge was able to be there, one of the most memorable performances. TY for watching this and Ty Freddy RIP you're missed !
Freddie Mercury was, is, and always will be, the ULTIMATE front man. An interviewer once asked him was was his favorite instrument to play, and he responded, "The audience, darling "
The brightest stars burn out quicker. I am old and ugly enough that I got to see Queen six times. I've played hundreds of gigs, seen thousands, and nothing compares
Love this reaction to my favorite band, Queen! You were both so sincere and it was a joy to watch, I was so happy for you both getting to experience this for the first time. Subscribed! ☺
Back at panchgani Freddie had a school band in fourth standard called HECTICS..and also a school crush a girl named Gita Choksi…❤ Freddie was a legend and will keep inspiring the generations to come, long live Queen..
A few facts, Freddy was ill with a cold during the performance, he wouldn’t perform unless he got the 7pm slot, Pepsi payed £500,000 for product placement, LEVIS offered him £50,000 he wanted £100,000 they refused so he sent his assistant to buy Wrangler jeans an hour before he went on stage and wore them for free!! It was Wranglers most successful year ❤😂
@gmdhargreaves @JeanneCulligan I'm not sure where you got this information from, but, apart from Freddie having a throat infection and being advised to not perform by his doctor, nothing else is true. Firstly, in response to your statement about Freddie asking for money for product placement, Freddie himself, in an interview, said the band never took any money for product placement. Advertising products on stage (although some bands/artists had started to do it) was not really a big thing in the UK back then. Also, this was the LIVE-AID charity concert, and Queen was just one of the bands playing, so if product placement had been agreed to, it would have been agreed by the Live-Aid Organisers, and they may have agreed to place products in return for donations to the Live-Aid Charity. As for Levi jeans versus Wrangler jeans, Freddie always wore Wrangler jeans, as stated by his personal assistant, who, before every tour/performance, had to stock up on Freddie's favourite stage clothing and bought bulk numbers of Freddie's favourite Wrangler jeans and also a number of pairs of Freddie's favourite Adidas Boxing boots. After the Live-Aid concert, the sales in Wrangler Jeans and Adidas did soar, but that was because many of the new fans that Queen's epic, show-stealing performance had produced, were all wanting to dress like Freddie. Finally, there are two versions of how each band in Live-aid were given their slots. The first, which I think came from Bob Geldof himself, was that everyone was given a time slot and Queen, as late-comers to the Concert, were allocated the 18:40 time slot. The second version was that bands could put in a request for a specific time slot, but that these requests were not guaranteed. If the time slots were allocated in this way, most of the slots, especially those perceived to be the best time slots, were taken by the time Queen had said they would perform. According to this version, there were very few slots left for Queen to select from, and no one wanted to do the 18:40 pm time slot because it would be during this time slot that the Wembley Concert went live with the Phillidelphia Concert in the US, and bands and their agents were afraid of the technical difficulties that may occur during that initial cross-over, so Queen were asked if they would please consider doing the 18:40 cross-over slot. Queen agreed to take this time slot, because they realised that although much could go wrong, it could also go very right, and it was this decision that ended up actually benefiting Queen enormously, because the whole world got to see the most EPIC, and Greatest Live Performance Of All Time.
Freddie had a bad throat and was told not to perform by a doctor. However, Queen did and they smashed it. Apparently he said it was like gargling with glass. All the acts had a 15-20 minute slot and if they went over they were cut off. They did the most songs of any act and Queen finished exactly on time. Freddie was the best frontman ever and the rest of the band are great too. All of them have degrees.
I watched this on tv live in 1985 just a couple weeks before I turned 6 years old. I didn’t know what I was watching nor how special it was. This was just “music” to me.
Sadly at this point Freddie will have known that he wouldn't have a long life yet still put on this amazing performance. A true star I never got to see live. Chris.
You guys should definitely react to the biographical movie of this artist Freddie Mercury and yes ofc Queen but mainly focused on Freddie’s life and story. It even got the Oscar so you guys should really watch that movie you guys will definitely get chills all over for sure!!!
Freddie is not a guitar player. He plays the first 2 chords and when the band kicks in they turn his volume down. He is however a very accomplished piano player.
I was painting the lounge with the TV on with Live Aid. Queen weren’t originally on the programme, joined at the last moment and stole the show! You want to watch the Freddie Mercury tribute show. Different artists singing his songs with Brian May, John Deacon and Roger Taylor all backing them.
the best preformer of all time!by a longway!he was the best,worked up the road from where he lived,on the same road,wanted to se ehim all and i saw was derek nimo guy insteads he lived next door to where i worked
The fun pat is that Queen was a late time addition . The growd did not expect them ... yet they controlled the growd on a level unseen since then . Remember : these are not all fans of Queen but they all are played :D
If you're looking for other songs to react to, I would recommend a live version of Depeche Mode's NEVER LET ME DOWN AGAIN. The crowd participation near the end of the song is right up there with this crowd!
If you like great British bands doing live concerts then I suggest Pink Floyd, Comfortably numb, from the Pulse concert. watch the remastered version. It will blow your brains out.
He was Parsi his lineage was Persian. His parents came from what was then Bombay but the Parsi community rarely if ever married out of that community. He was born in Zanzibar because his dad had work there.
If memory serves me this was luck because this was not part of the regular tv recording. Someone who worked the show was wise to keep it. If you buy the official video it is not included. Fun side notes: Phil Collins did the day show with Genesis in England, then took the Concord and did his solo act in Philadelphia, US for the evening show. Freddy was sick and wasn't sure how his voice would be for the show. Bob Geldof, the organizer of the benefit concert, thought Queen were rock dinosaurs. He almost kept Queen out of the concert like he did The Kinks. That is a crime that no one brings up. The Kinks were legends and were kept out. David Bowie had to follow Queen. You know you had a great performance when you overshadow EVERYONE, including a legend like David Bowie.
Question, why do you always cut off the bottom of the video in your reactions? We can only see Freddie from the chest and sometimes only his face. We can't see the crowd because you cut it off.
There is a song that is missing it was at teh end of the concert ruclips.net/video/riwDo7_GxjM/видео.html, the rest of the band was great during a crazy thing called love, a tribute to Elvis Brian May played three different Guitars including one he and his dad played, his amplifier was built by John Deacon, and Roger Taylor had a great voice
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He said " he can hypnotize the whole crowd" . Never have more truer words been spoken about Freddie Mercury.
Freddie was Parsi Indian by ethnicity. He spent much of his childhood in Panchgani near Bombay. He was a gift to Britain and the nation mourned his early death.
He was born British due to his place of birth being a British protectorate.
@@taylort5672 Im british and to me he is british because he grew up here, but he was not born here, zanzibar haha
I've seen this video of Queen hundreds of times and I still get shivers when I see it again.
I never get tired of watching Freddie Mercury 👀🎶👑🌈💙🫶
72,000 people in attendance and 1.9 Billion people watching from around the world.
Freddie performed against doctors orders with a throat infection.
Live Aid made 140 million dollars for famine in Africa.
I love this pair! Their sense of enthusiasm and wonder is so endearing - they always brighten my day! 😁
Freddie still loves you.
Amazingly, Freddie had a sore throat and his doctor had advised him not to perform. Then he turns in this performance, I doubt we’ll ever see his like again, an amazing showman.
In case you didn't know, this was a 12 hour benefit concert. Each band had a 20 minute set. It just happened to be that Queen's set was the best and no one wanted to follow them!
The benefit was to raise money for starving people in Africa. It was on 2 continents: Philadelphia PA (USA) and London England. 1 billion watched all over the world.
David Bowie followed them.
Bowie said "How the xxxx am I supposed to follow that"
The man was a Legend .R.I.P. Freddie..
"Born in 1946 in Zanzibar to Parsi-Indian parents, Mercury attended English boarding schools in India from the age of eight and returned to Zanzibar after secondary school. In 1964, his family fled the Zanzibar Revolution, moving to Middlesex, England. Having previously studied and written music, he formed Queen in 1970 with guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor."
England saved Freddie’s life and gave him opportunities beyond his wildest dreams. Thank you England✌️🏴
Live Aid was a charity concert for Ethiopia and was on both sides of the Atlantic (London and Philadephia)..the best artists of the day had about 25 mins each for their set. Queen, although reasonably popular at the time just took it to another level with this performance and in 25 mins they acheived legendary status!
Freddie Mercury (lead singer) was born Farrokh Bulsara.. was born to British Indian parents, from Zanzibar
There’ll be no-one ever again like Freddie.. My dad was a steward at this concert, Wembley stadium
I didn't realise he was Indian, i.e. Parsi. I thought his parents were Iranian.
@@robbie_Persian, Pars, easy to mix up. (Especially because the latter originated in ancient Persia.)
"There’ll be no-one ever again like Freddie.", that is so true.
A true shaman of the stage! I remember when we saw it the first time it was aired, everyone was in awe of Queen. 😊🍀❤
I love the fact you are both loving this I was 34yrs at the time we will never get it back what a group what a performance the drummer was his back up but what a loss in our Freddie
I was 14 at the time and although I watched all I could on the TV, I was dismissive of just how immense the whole project was for the world. I've heard but don't know how true it is, that Bob Geldof said that the donations started pouring in after Queen performed.
It's been so long I'd forgotten what a brilliant performer he was. Really takes me back in time.....
Freddie was this amazing even after having laryngitis the week before. Once he was off stage he said it felt like he was singing with a throat full of glass shards. Freddie and Brian came back out to do the last song of the day, a beautiful but sad song called "Is This The World We Created". You can find it separately on RUclips.
Almost the last song.
After that they ended it with Do they know it's Christmas and all participants on stage together.
Just remember that this was broadcast around the world to billions of people.
“What a superstar” - You hit the nail on the head!
Freddie Mercury lead singer diploma in Graphic Arts and Design, Sir Dr Brian May lead guitar PHD in Astrophysics, Roger Taylor drummer degree in Biology after changing from Dentistry, John Deacon bass guitar First Class Honours degree in Electronics all inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame all wrote number one hits, they were all multi instrumentalists, there you have Queen the band not just Freddie they were four equal parts love your reaction ❤❤
It is said that the renowned singer Lady gaga chose that name after listening to the song Radio Ga Ga, which is the second song in the concert.... Watching him for the first time, you guys were onto him from the word go.. you sang along for that eh oh part... that was his power.. in an interview when the host asked him what's your favorite instrument or something, he said the audience.. He loved including audience into his performance.. he made sure they're a part of it too..
The movie Bohemian Rhapsody is made about him and the band Queen..
One of the, if not the greatest singer and greatest performer of all time..!!!
Also if possible watch Queen's performance - Somebody to Love live from Montreal 1981... the best ever live concert you'll ever see..
Everybody suggests montreal. Milton keynes, or the bowl, has a better rendition of Somebody to Love and Dragon Attack. It's a much more raw performance.
@@proofprof63 Is it.? Well then I should better check it.! Thanks for the info...
This was a 10 hour concert with the main venues at Wembley and then continued in the US, featuring many popular artists of the day. The TV broadcast was open to every country in the world to get as much funds for famine in Africa. The estimate number of people that tuned in was 2 billion, or at that time, a third of the planet!
I remember where I lived at the time there was no traffic, no people in the street and you could hear it from every open window. Amazing
I remember as a kid watching this and loosing interest in the rest of the concert . Who could top a performance like that? The greatest performance ever.
Later at night the singer and the guitarist returned on stage and performed an acoustic peace with the title "Is this the world we created..?"
Great lyrics:
"You know that everyday a helpless child is born - Who needs some loving care inside a happy home ... - If there's a God in the sky looking down - What can he think of what we've done ..."
One of the all time greatest performances.
A vest, basic jeans, a piano and tremendous talent. Unlike the fake bs nowadays.
Well said. Today's music is so rarely to do with talent and mostly to do with computers and choreography. Mostly.
I was present at Live Aid, the printing company I worked for produced posters and T-shirts for Live Aid, we donated our worktime and our boss bought us tickets, it was an amazing day! we were talking about it at work for months!
WOW! and Thank you for your contribution. Bet that your 'pay off' was rewarding ;-) Congrats!!
When England had a new queen for the day.Rip legend❤ check out the 1986 concert at Wembley the following year starting with one vision.
Concert for George is truly worth a look at. The first 45 minutes is Indian Music as George a member of The Beatles had a lot of music influence from India.
From then you get Monty Python sketches on stage. The rest of the concert is Eric Clapton, Geoff Lynne, Ringo, Paul Mcartney , Joe Brown. Billy Preston, Danni Harrison Tom Petty and others singing most of George Harrison songs. A truly great tribute. So much content it wont fit on one revue.
The best 25 minute live performance ever
For 20 minutes, the world was ruled by a QUEEN!!!!
I remember watching Live Aid live on TV in the 80’s - when this came on - I had much respect for Queen but this blew me (& everyone else) away.
RIP Freddy Mercury - unreplaceable.
OMG What an amazing reaction to a great performance by the greatest band ever! Thank you, @Indie_Jam !!
Hi Guy's thank you so much for reacting to this, You have just seen the best performance of all time, ATB, God Bless, Wayne UK...........😀
it's no coincidence that people say:- we won't see another like him soon! ❤
We'll never see another like him, EVER!!!!!!!
Great reaction, thanks! That was fun to watch with you! This performance was voted the best rock performance in history and stands today. I watched it live at home in the U.S. on tv. Best live band ever!
The greatest 20 minutes in the history of music! Queen practiced and prepared for three straight days for this event to insure they could deliver the intended music in the time span they had. 72,000+ fans at Wembley Stadium and viewed by 1.9 billion people across the world.
The audience in the old Wembley stadium was 72,000. There was another audience of 89,000 watching live via video link in the John F Kennedy stadium, Philadelphia and they joined in with the double handclap in Radio Ga Ga, although there was a half second transmission delay. (Sorry, I'm a nerd!)
Freddie was an amazing performer and a beautiful soul
My first concert as a kid was Queen in Dallas, Texas. SO AMAZING!!!!
22:32 Freddy was convinced his vocal range and virtuosity came from his additional teeth (you probably noticed his protruding teeth in his upper jaw).
It's one of my favorite bands of all time
Just so you know Freddie's doctor told him not to do this because he had an infection that was affecting his voice but he didn't want to let his fans down and ended up giving one of the best performance ever.
This has to be the best reaction video I have ever watch. Thank you for not stopping the video every few seconds or so to make a comment about the video. ❤😊
This concert always gives me goosebumps - and I remember watching this live on TV when I was young. It's been amazing watching you experience this and enjoy it so much as he was a gift to us from India!
Oh my word. I was 16 during the live aid 1985 concert. Enough said. Classic performance to be fair. Cheers
I saw Queen several times beginning in 1975, have never seen anything like it before or since and never will. There will never be another Freddie, my angel 😘😇
May i suggest you react to a Jean Michel Jarre concert. Jarre a French electronic music composer and performer plays city's rather than stadiums. Its not unheard of for more than 3.5 million people to attend a show with 75 million watching live on TV and the internet. Astronauts on board the space station have been know to watch and join in the show live (Moscow) Even the Pope has been a support act lol.
Jarre's performances are known not only for the fantasic music but also the visual spectacle. Fireworks, lights, lasers and skyscrapers being used as huge screens etc.
Some you might want to consider are (in no particular order) ...
Jean Michel Jarre live in Cairo Egypt The Twelve Dreams of the sun 1080 HD full screen repack
That was his show Millennium eve at the pyramids.
Oxygen in Moscow (full video) - Jean Michel Jarre
Jean Michel Jarre live in Gdansk [complete concert, best quality available]
Ect,ect.
Theres so many i could never pick a favourite, there all so different.
Freddie Mercury of course was both ethnically and culturally Indian.
Ethnically he was Parsi, but from age 8 he was given a british-style education at an anglican boarding-school (playing rock-music eben there) and lived in England from age 18 so he wasn't really Indian culturally.
@@juttapopp1869He was raised in a British style boarding school, he was very culturally British actually.
It doesn’t get any better than this, friends. Love you guys!
Please, check out more Queen.
Their catalogue is a treasure chest…
Yes this was an Amazing concert and Freddy was already so ill with aidsdurong this time so awsome ge was able to be there, one of the most memorable performances. TY for watching this and Ty Freddy RIP you're missed !
Fred was really charismatic i must say
You must watch the movie Bohemian Rhapsody for the Queen Story, also check out Freddie singing with Montserrat Cabale ,the tune Barcelona.
Watching you both always makes me feel nice and better about the world. Greetings from Scotland X
Freddie Mercury was, is, and always will be, the ULTIMATE front man. An interviewer once asked him was was his favorite instrument to play, and he responded, "The audience, darling "
Thee moment Freddie Mercury became a God. Iconic ❤
The best reaction to this video, I have every watched, you guys really have taste and your both beautiful to watch.
The brightest stars burn out quicker.
I am old and ugly enough that I got to see Queen six times.
I've played hundreds of gigs, seen thousands, and nothing compares
Love this reaction to my favorite band, Queen! You were both so sincere and it was a joy to watch, I was so happy for you both getting to experience this for the first time. Subscribed! ☺
Try their song "Somebody to Love" live in Montreal, pure class
Back at panchgani Freddie had a school band in fourth standard called HECTICS..and also a school crush a girl named Gita Choksi…❤ Freddie was a legend and will keep inspiring the generations to come, long live Queen..
I came here after your Mirzapur 3 reaction and this is my Fav band of all time guys🗣️
A few facts, Freddy was ill with a cold during the performance, he wouldn’t perform unless he got the 7pm slot, Pepsi payed £500,000 for product placement, LEVIS offered him £50,000 he wanted £100,000 they refused so he sent his assistant to buy Wrangler jeans an hour before he went on stage and wore them for free!! It was Wranglers most successful year ❤😂
I hadn’t heard that before, thanks for letting us know
@gmdhargreaves @JeanneCulligan I'm not sure where you got this information from, but, apart from Freddie having a throat infection and being advised to not perform by his doctor, nothing else is true. Firstly, in response to your statement about Freddie asking for money for product placement, Freddie himself, in an interview, said the band never took any money for product placement. Advertising products on stage (although some bands/artists had started to do it) was not really a big thing in the UK back then. Also, this was the LIVE-AID charity concert, and Queen was just one of the bands playing, so if product placement had been agreed to, it would have been agreed by the Live-Aid Organisers, and they may have agreed to place products in return for donations to the Live-Aid Charity.
As for Levi jeans versus Wrangler jeans, Freddie always wore Wrangler jeans, as stated by his personal assistant, who, before every tour/performance, had to stock up on Freddie's favourite stage clothing and bought bulk numbers of Freddie's favourite Wrangler jeans and also a number of pairs of Freddie's favourite Adidas Boxing boots. After the Live-Aid concert, the sales in Wrangler Jeans and Adidas did soar, but that was because many of the new fans that Queen's epic, show-stealing performance had produced, were all wanting to dress like Freddie.
Finally, there are two versions of how each band in Live-aid were given their slots. The first, which I think came from Bob Geldof himself, was that everyone was given a time slot and Queen, as late-comers to the Concert, were allocated the 18:40 time slot. The second version was that bands could put in a request for a specific time slot, but that these requests were not guaranteed. If the time slots were allocated in this way, most of the slots, especially those perceived to be the best time slots, were taken by the time Queen had said they would perform. According to this version, there were very few slots left for Queen to select from, and no one wanted to do the 18:40 pm time slot because it would be during this time slot that the Wembley Concert went live with the Phillidelphia Concert in the US, and bands and their agents were afraid of the technical difficulties that may occur during that initial cross-over, so Queen were asked if they would please consider doing the 18:40 cross-over slot. Queen agreed to take this time slot, because they realised that although much could go wrong, it could also go very right, and it was this decision that ended up actually benefiting Queen enormously, because the whole world got to see the most EPIC, and Greatest Live Performance Of All Time.
great reaction, thank you and rock on!
Freddie had a bad throat and was told not to perform by a doctor. However, Queen did and they smashed it. Apparently he said it was like gargling with glass. All the acts had a 15-20 minute slot and if they went over they were cut off. They did the most songs of any act and Queen finished exactly on time. Freddie was the best frontman ever and the rest of the band are great too. All of them have degrees.
Great to see it enjoyed so much by other generations
I watched this on tv live in 1985 just a couple weeks before I turned 6 years old. I didn’t know what I was watching nor how special it was. This was just “music” to me.
Love you guys. So enthusiastic and fun.
This reaction makes me very happy.
Sadly at this point Freddie will have known that he wouldn't have a long life yet still put on this amazing performance. A true star I never got to see live. Chris.
Great reaction ❤😊
He belongs to India as much as he belongs to the Brits. A true legend.
GREAT Reaction.....
70000 people, this concert went all around the world
You guys should definitely react to the biographical movie of this artist Freddie Mercury and yes ofc Queen but mainly focused on Freddie’s life and story. It even got the Oscar so you guys should really watch that movie you guys will definitely get chills all over for sure!!!
I assure you that diving into Queen will be rewarding. They are a gift to us from the gods. 💛💛💛💛
Freddie is not a guitar player. He plays the first 2 chords and when the band kicks in they turn his volume down. He is however a very accomplished piano player.
Love your reaction.My biggest regret is, never seen Queen life
I was painting the lounge with the TV on with Live Aid.
Queen weren’t originally on the programme, joined at the last moment and stole the show!
You want to watch the Freddie Mercury tribute show. Different artists singing his songs with Brian May, John Deacon and Roger Taylor all backing them.
I felt sorry for David Bowie, who followed them.
Love both your enthusiasms! Please react to Somebody to Love❤❤❤ Freddie Mercury best front man, thank you ❤❤❤Freddie Forever❤❤❤
the best preformer of all time!by a longway!he was the best,worked up the road from where he lived,on the same road,wanted to se ehim all and i saw was derek nimo guy insteads he lived next door to where i worked
The fun pat is that Queen was a late time addition . The growd did not expect them ... yet they controlled the growd on a level unseen since then . Remember : these are not all fans of Queen but they all are played :D
I suggest you watch the concert in Green Park we British love a sing song!!!
well worth a watch
If you're looking for other songs to react to, I would recommend a live version of Depeche Mode's NEVER LET ME DOWN AGAIN. The crowd participation near the end of the song is right up there with this crowd!
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If you like great British bands doing live concerts then I suggest Pink Floyd, Comfortably numb, from the Pulse concert. watch the remastered version.
It will blow your brains out.
Freddie and Brian May came back out later that evening to do another song "is this the world we created" you should check it out :)
l remember all of this.
His real name is Farrokh Bulsara and he was Indian
He was Parsi his lineage was Persian. His parents came from what was then Bombay but the Parsi community rarely if ever married out of that community. He was born in Zanzibar because his dad had work there.
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If memory serves me this was luck because this was not part of the regular tv recording. Someone who worked the show was wise to keep it. If you buy the official video it is not included.
Fun side notes: Phil Collins did the day show with Genesis in England, then took the Concord and did his solo act in Philadelphia, US for the evening show.
Freddy was sick and wasn't sure how his voice would be for the show.
Bob Geldof, the organizer of the benefit concert, thought Queen were rock dinosaurs. He almost kept Queen out of the concert like he did The Kinks. That is a crime that no one brings up. The Kinks were legends and were kept out.
David Bowie had to follow Queen. You know you had a great performance when you overshadow EVERYONE, including a legend like David Bowie.
Freedie Mercury's real name is Farokh Bulsara. He is a Parsi from India 🇮🇳.
The late, great Freddie Mercury...
The following year they were back at Wembley doing a full concert...ruclips.net/video/6SKQa26Pmmw/видео.html
Check out his duet with Montserrat Caballe "Barcelona" for a whole different facet of his talent.
Question, why do you always cut off the bottom of the video in your reactions? We can only see Freddie from the chest and sometimes only his face. We can't see the crowd because you cut it off.
There is a song that is missing it was at teh end of the concert ruclips.net/video/riwDo7_GxjM/видео.html, the rest of the band was great during a crazy thing called love, a tribute to Elvis Brian May played three different Guitars including one he and his dad played, his amplifier was built by John Deacon, and Roger Taylor had a great voice
Freddy plays the audience 😅
😀👍 thank you from germany
Just think, the doctors told Freddie not to do this. He was sick. Imagine if he was well
72,000 people attended live aid in 1985
Just shows how far behind the times people r in India and this was in 1985.