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Live Aid was a multi-venue benefit concert and music-based fundraising initiative held on Saturday, 13 July 1985. The original event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise further funds for relief of the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia, a movement that started with the release of the successful charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in December 1984.
This influenced Queen's appearance at Live Aid, where the 72,000-person crowd at Wembley Stadium would sing loudly and clap their hands in unison. Queen's performance at Live Aid was later voted the greatest live show of all time by a group of over 60 musicians, critics, and executives in a poll conducted by Channel 4 .
The Miracle Video EP. Released:27 November 1989; Format(s): VHS ... Live Aid (various artists) ... Queen Live in Budapest '86.
Queen Rock Montreal is a live album by the British rock band Queen. It was released on 29 October 2007 as a double CD , Blu-ray , DVD, and triple vinyl in the UK and the following day in the US. It was recorded in Montreal , Quebec , at the Montreal Forum on 24 November and 25 November 1981, the final concerts of The Game Tour .
Live Aid organiser Bob Geldof announced the event on 31 May. Many former Live Aid acts offered their services to the cause. Prior to the official announcement of the event, many news sources referred to the event as Live Aid 2. However, Geldof and co-organiser Midge Ure have since explicitly said they do not think of the event as the same as ...
The largest attendance for a ticketed concert (220,000) This article lists the most-attended concerts of all time. The oldest 100,000-crowd concert reported to Billboard Boxscore is Grateful Dead's gig at the Raceway Park, Englishtown, New Jersey on September 3, 1977. The concert was attended by 107,019 people.
All the songs performed by Sting were sung twenty years before at Live Aid. Mariah Carey performed a medley of her hits "Make It Happen", "We Belong Together", and "Hero" where she was accompanied by a children's choir. Some artists already had shows planned for 2 July which they performed after their performances at Live 8.
Also in 2005, with the release of their live album with Paul Rodgers, Queen moved into third place on the list of acts with the most aggregate time spent on the British record charts. [451] In 2022, Greatest Hits was the best-selling album in UK chart history, and the only album to sell over seven million copies in the UK. [ 146 ]