Freddie seduced the planet… but Live Aid was so much bigger than Queen | UK | News

The past changes every time we describe it again. According to the narrative of the narrative curls. If you bought the version depicted in the 2018 feature film Bohemian Rhapsody, Bob Geldof’s global Jukebox was a victory against the exclusion of the Queen’s others. If you are at the Wembley Stadium, if you watched the concert on July 13, 1985 on July 13, 1985, you will remember the musical enthusiasm one day the world has never seen.

You can remember that Freddie Mercury and its band are the highest, most dominant, but the Bowie show rang; Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon still noted a punk that was still echoed; This bond and U2 Rubicon passed and superstar. You may have read and absorb everything that emerged later, but you gave Sir Bob for the benefit of suspicion, because he did something, he came out of the back, all these millions of pounds raised and actually saved lives. It was nothing.

Maybe you didn’t care to think about what’s going on. Maybe your memory repeats that Jagger and Bowie are dancing on the street.

You can wake up in remembering the sound descending to DSÖ; McCartney, the first two minutes of his first live performance since the murder of John Lennon five years ago; Or in Phil Collins, he caught Concorde from the drum for a Led Zeppelin, which was brought together again, not completely successful.

Or you may have forgotten them. Forty years and 40 years. The memories were breathing, so was the period descriptive as live aid said? Was everything broken?

The legend has been interpreted so frequently since his reality was staged because it was almost disappeared into the piles of time. But we have to force ourselves. The global music box was never a comfortable fairy story in which it appeared. Even the music industry, where the event an unprecedented promotion, lived happily forever. As Live Aid’s present, as today, thanks to the resurrection of the inheritance actions, as many of them still do, many exciting new generation of artists struggled and often found a basis for work.

72,000 people at the Wembley Stadium and 90,000 people live in the John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia live live Aid, 1.5 billion television viewers in 110 countries. While increasing both the awareness and the very needed funds, it is accused of allowing money to be misleaded, strengthening the White West Savior message and even protecting the entire African continent.

He triggered an African industry who played the ghost of colonialism and the ghost of the empire and thinks that he did more than to solve humanitarian crises for the profile of the stage artists. Because millions of people gathered did not lead to a positive change.

It was claimed that it can be considered as ‘band assistance solution’: a temporary solution to an urgent problem that does not solve the root of poverty and famine or the ongoing causes. It was also claimed that famine was human production.

The government plane apparently had Napalmed the rebellious farms. In a long region where drought lasts, the famine of 1984 was insistently more political than a God’s action. Mengistu Haile Mariam, the brutal dictator of Ethiopia, was accused of using live aid funds to buy weapons from Russia. Ethiopia was the poorest in the world at the time. How did he suddenly have the greatest, best troubled army in Africa?

Live AID’s organizers were also accused of helping to maintain a holocost against Eritor independence fighters. Geldof begged not to release any money until he had a reliable infrastructure to help those who need it directly.

He released it, no matter what, and even joke to support the devil. Now 88 -year -old Mengistu fled to Zimbabve in May 1991. His government was held responsible for the death of two million Ethiopians. Most of them died during the famine of 1983-1985. He was found guilty of genocide in absenteeism.

Knowing all this, we are better than re -evaluating ourselves from memory, re -evaluating the living aid as an inhuman accessory, and sending it to the wrong, less informed past?

Let’s say. And I say that because of music. For his own good, music deserves to be celebrated as an element that brings together the world for a common purpose. If there was a terrible demand for famine, music was the reason for live help. And that was a brainless. What else is the ability to mix emotions and minds individually and collectively and to the ability to galvanize as well as masses?

We know music, the development of human development enriching life by contributing to the phenomenon. It improves shared experiences, promotes solidarity and encourages partnership that provides life.

It is unique as a valuable binding force between social, cultural and political differences. Plus, whether we don’t like it, is the last compelling figure of our time.

So today I will embarrass my personal memories of live help without shame.

In the drawing of WHO’s bassist John Entwistle’s Cabrio Rolls Royce with Irish Wolfhound, driving from Roehampon to Wembley, the so -called compliances are perfectly fit. (John and his wife Maxene, I stayed in their place before the concert. There was a lot of things to fit in the car, and the only place that could fit me, sat in the smallest, boat!).

Elton John’s cooking a barbecue in a fragrant corner of the back stage area, because pop-up hard rock café doesn’t like the hamburgers and fries of potatoes. Photographer David Bailey’s makeshift studio. EGOs were checked at the door. Niggles and freezing among some group members, all this friendship and love.

Standing there, Wembley – Status quo, Dire Straits, George Michael, Sting, Alison Moyet, Style Council, Ultravox, Spandau Ballet – Many other supreme artists came to my mind while watching the playing artists. Alex Harvey, sensational Alex Harvey Band’s great Glam Rocker. Ian Dury and Blockheads, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett, Ziggy and Spider. I saw Freddie Mercury matched all of them, and maybe you saw it.

What he exhibited that day was the instinctive star quality. He evokes and was excited about his born shape. It was as if he had examined and sucked the best hidden secrets of every definite artist who came before him.

He seduced the planet that day. There is a tendency to look at live help and see it more than it is. A global concert staged against all technical rates wasn’t more than a great day for bettors. The fact that he won great amounts for the masses of hunger seemed almost random at that time.

We may not want, but now we know better.