Live Aid 30th Anniversary

[Autotune]

I imagine it must have been impossible at that time to be a fan and NOT thinking that a great new era for the BBs was beginning.

[southbay]

I imagine it must have been impossible at that time to be a fan and NOT thinking that a great new era for the BBs was beginning.

Yeah, it was my very first of many what could have been's. I really thought I was discovering the band at the start of Brian's real comeback and on the brink of their renewed peak. What a moron I was...

[Kamandi]

I remember one of the local radio stations doing a simulcast of the concert along with the coverage on MTV. For some reason the radio broadcast was live and the TV was about a half hour behind. Some things I remember in my head but could be faulty memory are:
- Paul McCartney singing into a dead microphone for most of Let it Be (I later read that only the broadcast was faulty and that he was audible at Wembley).
- The power getting shut off for U2 for going beyond their playing time (The broadcasters said Geldof set strict limits on performance times and if anyone went over their plug would be pulled)
- The Stones NOT playing though Kieth and Ron Wood joined Dylan and Mick sang with Tina Turner.
- Power Station playing without Robert Palmer and the fill in Michael DeBarres getting drenched with water thrown by the crowd.

One band that isnt mentioned that seemed to go over well in Philadelphia was Judas Priest. I remember even the square radio announcers being impressed with their set and how it seemed to get the crowd going.
The set up at the stadium was weird, with that giant screen right in the middle of the arena. It would have sucked to have paid probably $20 for a ticket and have to sit behind that giant screen.

As for our boys, MTV did a documentary of sorts later in the year on Live Aid and Bob Geldof himself mentioned how astonished he was to hear the entire stadium at Wembley singing along to California Girls.