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Live Aid was a two-venue benefit concert and music-based fundraising initiative held on Saturday, 13 July 1985. The 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. [1]
Live at the Rainbow. Released:May 1992; Format(s): VHS (in box set called: Box of Tricks) [3] (filmed 19 and 20 November 1974 at the Rainbow Theatre) Classic Queen. Released:13 October 1992 (United States only) Format(s): VHS; Greatest Hits. Released:13 October 1992 (United States only) Format(s): VHS; We Are the Champions: Final Live in Japan
On this day in 1985, a worldwide rock concert dubbed 'Live Aid' was organized to raise money for the relief of famine-stricken Africans at Wembley Stadium in London. According to History.com, the ...
2005 - The band's performance at Live Aid is voted two times by a large selection of musicians and critics to be the greatest live show of all time. [14] 2007 - The band was voted the 'Best British Band Of All Time.' [15] 2008 - The band enters the Grammy Hall of Fame.
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The largest attendance for a ticketed concert (220,000) The following is a list of the most-attended concerts which have drawn at least 100,000 people. The oldest 100,000-crowd show reported to Billboard Boxscore is Grateful Dead at Englishtown's Raceway Park on September 3, 1977, with 107,019 fans.
Original Queen band members Bob Geldoff and Brian May react to the Live Aid set for 'Bohemian Rhapsody.'