vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
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- Meanwood, Leeds
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Queen at Live Aid 1985
- Thread starter Herbie
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.....but it was memorable
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- the post-brexit wasteland
live aid was a turning point, u2 were crap from then on...
I was there and no I don't think it was. It was good but I was also at the Mandela 70th birthday concert '88 and Brothers in arms Dire Straits joined by Eric Clapton will be with me a long long time, i was fortunate enough to be right at the front that day.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Only when reminded of it....
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
"...from then on..."? I could qualify that that even more precisely... or at least, Bill Bailey can more graphically....
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Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
I thought the Style Council were good, but nobody agrees with me.
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
I disagree that nobody agrees with you because I rate the Style Council.
It was one of the few CDs I replaced like for like after a burglary.
Losing some of the rest of them was almost a relief.
tmesis
Active Member
- Location
- Derbyshire
Not a patch on Chas & Dave at Glastonbury 2007. A few thousand people having a right-old knees up in a field of mud*. That's what I call entertainment.
*for the mud connoisseurs out there, it was the claggy, makes you 3 inches taller stage. A lot less fun that the slim-fast gloop stage you get after prolonged rain, but, paradoxically, a lot funnier.
*for the mud connoisseurs out there, it was the claggy, makes you 3 inches taller stage. A lot less fun that the slim-fast gloop stage you get after prolonged rain, but, paradoxically, a lot funnier.
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
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- ...on the slake
Not even them what was in it!
Bryony
Veteran
- Location
- Ramsgate, Kent
I never saw it at the time (i was only a year old) I expect it was on the telly though as my Mum was a mahoosive Queen fan!!! I have seen it since and thought it was amazing, but I love Queen too. My Mum was such a big fan and had such a weird sense of humour that she requested Queen to be played at her funeral!................................another one bites the dust!! (she was cremated!
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tmesis
Active Member
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- Derbyshire
I had a burglary once where the little scrotes left all the CDs I hated the most. It's bad enough to be burgled, but to be implicitly criticised for your taste in the process is too much to bear.
martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
Nope don't think it was even the best set at Live Aid. I thought Quo with their "who gives a stuff, we're going to have a good time" attitude was a great opener. U2 didn't modify their live show apart from changing the songs for about 20 years (and I'm a fan). Bono still finds a way to get some girl out of the audience.
'CND? CND? We're not going on after Chas and Dave'!
And as for the original question; are you mad? I always hated their awful preening pretentiousness and the fact they were PNG at the time due to their colluding with the apartheid regime in South Africa. Having said that, one of their songs ALMOST came up to the heights set by the Elvis Costello session but I can't remember its title. It was something about a hammer....falling? It went some way to redeeming them but never quite earned them in place in my good books.
