#live aid 1985

[another-little-hippie]

if you take anything away from that live aid performance of their’s, may it be robert entering his very iconic dilf era.

#live aid 1985 #led zeppelin #robert plant #jimmy page #john paul jones #phil collins #1980s #80s fashion #70s #classic rock

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

Remembering David Bowie

8th January, 1947

David Bowie was born David Robert Jones in Brixton, South London, UK

Bowie paired with Queen in 1981 for a one-off single release, "Under Pressure".

🔸Rudi Dolezal: With what other people would, could you think of co-operating like you did with Bowie, and Jackson, on this unreleased stuff? What other people who are interesting to you

Freddie Mercury: No it depends, I mean I just um, I don't, I don't sort of think of those things, I mean sometimes you just meet friends and er, if you, if you think about er, doing a song together you talk about that, otherwise that's not what I think about all the time, I mean they're, Elton and I have been friends for a long time, but we never, we've actually sort of said to each other one day we probably go in there together and, and, and write a song, but it's, it's, it's better being friends, you know what I mean, and er, and the thing about it is, is spontaneity, so I mean, it's just er, if it happens that we're talking and suddenly we say 'oh, let's go in the studio and do it', that's the best thing, and that's what happened with David Bowie, we were just, he was just around, we were having dinner for a couple of days and we, we were recording in the studio and he just said 'oh, maybe I'll come in and just see what happens', so it wasn't planned, if it's planned then it's boring, because then it's just, and we were just going in there and, fooling around to see what happens, and suddenly there's this song started taking shape and we said 'oh that's quite nice, let's work on it a bit' and um, the result of that was 'Under Pressure' so. I'm not really um, I don't get up every morning and say OK which, who am I gonna work with today, that, those kind of things don't work

- Freddie Mercury

Extract from most famous interview, recorded at Musicland Studios, Munich, in early 1984, interviewed by Rudi Dolezal

(source: ultimatequeen.co.uk)

Pic: July 13, 1985, Live Aid, Wembley Stadium, London, UK - Freddie Mercury with David Bowie (1947-2016) backstage

📸 Photographer Denis O'Regan

#denis o'regan #david bowie #live aid #live aid 1985 #1985 #freddie mercury #queen band #london #zanzibar #legend #queen #brian may #john deacon #freddiebulsara #roger taylor

[trentreznorgf]

George Michael performing at Live Aid, 1985

#george michael #live aid 1985 #mygifs #wauhhh!!

[sketchy-julia]

Oof forgot to post this here yesterday but happy Live Aid Day! ⚡️Also I’m 21 now!✨

(This is actually a redraw from 2019)

#queen #freddie mercury #bohemian rhapsody #brian May #Roger Taylor #john deacon #live aid #live aid 1985 #Queen fanart #artists on tumblr #digital art #artists on ig #fanart #artists on twitter #procreate #artists on redbubble #sketchy Julia #redraw

[alanangels]

What I'm watching right now(for the 1st time)!

#live aid 1985 #queen #queen band #freddie mercury #brian may #roger taylor #john deacon #80s rock #live aid #classic rock

[mediaacestar]

Madonna's Summer Song -- Holiday

An artist’s first hit!  For some it’s also their last hit.  For some talented artists, it’s the first of many.  But, there’s a lot that the first hit often tells you about the artist.  Consider Madonna’s first hit “Holiday”.  Madonna was living in New York and frequented nightclubs to get disc jockeys to play her demo songs.  Mark Kamins a DJ at Danceteria (and friend of Madonna) arranged a meeting for her with Seymour Stein of Sire Records (part of Warner Brothers). He gave her a three single deal, with an option for an album.  Her singles cracked the top 10 in Billboard’s “Hot Dance Club Songs” chart. With that success, Warner Brothers hired a producer and they began to cobble together the album that would become her first, the self-titled “Madonna”.  

Madonna was unhappy with the way the album was progressing and the way the songs were moving away from the sparser beat-based form of the original demos. This is the fork in the road where things changed. As a New York dance club aficionado Madonna asked John Benitez the DJ from The Fun House to do some remixing of the tracks.  The Fun House was a 26th Street Manhattan dance club, with a decidedly anti-Studio 54 club vibe, full of younger less affluent clientele.  Benitez knew the pulse of the city’s youth. Nicknamed “Jellybean” because of his initials, he remixed her singles “Burning Up”, “Borderline” and “Lucky Star”. They needed one more song for the album and “Jellybean” knew of the song “Holiday” written by Curtis Hudson and Lisa Stevens-Crowder for their own musical act Pure Energy. They refused at first, but agreed after meeting with Madonna.  Again, another game changing moment. Benitez then produced the track.

Released in August 1983 “Holiday” hit #1 a month later on Billboard’s “Dance Club Songs” chart and then #16 on Billboard’s Top 100.  It also hit #25 on Billboard’s “Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs” chart. By the time of Live Aid on July 13, 1985 Madonna was an international star with a #1 hit song, multiple top 5 songs and the title role in the movie “Desperately Seeking Susan”. But, with all that going for her, she reached back to her first big hit "Holiday" for her set at Live Aid.  The huge crowd and the mood of the song and her “no auto-tune” singing makes it the very best version of a great song.  It’s a great summer song! 

#madonna #jellybean benitez #Holiday #live aid 1985 #DJ'sGetItDone #Youtube

[kosmik-signals]

#Sade #Sade Adu #Live Aid 1985

[ramblingqueenfangirl]

Damn right. I never get sick of it!

Queen would return exactly one year later and conquer Wembley and the world once again!

He came. He sang. He conquered.

#queen #freddiemercury #johndeacon #rogertaylor #brianmay #live aid #live aid 1985

[stringofpearlsx]

Led Zeppelin performing live onstage at Live Aid, Philadelphia

#led zeppelin #live aid 1985 #1985 #1985 photography #1980s music #live performance

[t-jfh]

Sade Adu wearing an Ushanka, London, 1985

(Photo: David Graves)

Sade performing songs including Why Can’t We Live Together, Your Love Is King and Is It A Crime at Live Aid in front of 72,000 people in Wembley Stadium, London on the 13th July, 1985. The event was organised by Sir Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for the Ethiopian famine disaster. Broadcast across the world via one of the largest satellite link-ups of all time, the concerts were seen by around 40% of the global population.

SADE LIVE AID

Sade Adu — Vocals

Stuart Matthewman — Guitar, Saxophone, Vocals

Paul Spencer Denman — Bass Guitar

Andrew Hale — Keyboards, Vocals

Gordon Hunte — Guitar

Dave Early — Drums

Martin Ditcham — Percussion

Gordon Matthewman — Trumpet

Jake Jacas — Trombone, Vocals

YouTube video >> Sade - Why Can't We Live Together (Live Aid 1985) [Released 18 March 2022 / 2mins.+35secs.]:

Why Can't We Live Together is written by Timmy Thomas.

Published by Peermusic for UK and World ex USA, Canada & Poland) and EMI Longitude Music (Sony Music Publishing) for USA, Canada & Poland.

•

•

YouTube video >> Sade - Your Love Is King (Live Aid 1985) [Released 21 September 2018 / 4mins.+31secs.]:

Your Love Is King is written by Sade Adu and Stuart Matthewman.

•

•

YouTube video >> Sade - Is It A Crime (Live Aid 1985). [Released 1 April 2022 / 6mins.+10secs.]:

Is It A Crime is written by Sade Adu / Stuart Matthewman / Andrew Hale.

Angel Music Limited (Sony Music Publishing).

•

#Shade Adu #Live Aid 1985 #Youtube

[theoldairman]

A SAMPLY OF QUEEN

Let’s take a short break from the serious stuff and let’s watch and listen to a song from Queen. ENJOY, MY FRIENDS…The Old Airman, God Bless Us All!!!!!!!

View On WordPress

#Live Aid 1985 #Queen #Youtube

[deadnburied13]

𐐛Ɩ𝚅𝞔 𝔸ƖＤ -- 1985

𝙹𝐹𝗞 𝘚𝚃𝔸ＤƖՍᎷ, ⲢΗƖ𐐛𝔸Ｄ𝞔𐐛ⲢΗƖ𝔸

#live aid 1985 #Queen #concert #history #rock history #rock n roll #Benefit #celebrity #1985

[superheroesfordoaareport]

Thank You, Bono, For “Saving My Life” (And Doa’a’s Too)!

Photos from back in the day of (from left to right) Joe Hoffman, aka “Cowtown Joe” and Bono when they both were sporting mullets By Joe Hoffman, aka “Cowtown Joe”, Program Director of Super Heroes for Doa’a Recently, while I was working from home doing my regular job, I was listening to U2’s incredible X-Radio station on Sirius XM. And after a few moments of rocking out to the killer tunes…

View On WordPress

#Amnesty International #Band Aid 1984 #Bono #charity #Congressman Dennis Moore #Dennis Moore #Elizabeth Alex #KSHB 41 News #Live Aid #Live Aid 1985 #One Campaign #SuperHeroesForDoaa #U2

[king-krisu]

We talk about this a lot atleast irl, but I can't wait for the day my niece or someone maybe gets into Käärijä in like 15 years, just like kids are now getting into old rock bands, and I can tell them what it was like to actually experience everything as it was happening. Like yes we did have a fucking yogurt with his face on it, he had hairspray, you went to London and saw his cumface ad on a bus stop, around nye you couldn't step on the metro without seeing his face on the vuosi vaihtuu ad, during spring facebook marketplace and tori was filled with any neon green item being sold as "Käärijä toilet brush" or "Käärijä bottle opener", when he lost his bolero on the highway it made national headlines, every week you'd hear of yet another small town filled to the brim as he performed at some tiny festival, during Eurovision we dressed our lantern bearers in Helsinki in giant boleros, a presidential candidate referenced him as like the 8th word in his opening speech, he really was fucking everywhere. Like how crazy that all of us got into this as it all started and we've seen these updates live as they come

#gonna tell my nieces and nephews about the kaivohuone show as if it were queen at live aid 1985 #yeah kids he came to do cha cha cha in the crowd with us!! #gonna recite bojere lore as if its scriptire i swear to god #'so on the original nordic tour september of 2023' and theyll groan like yeah mf we know #käärijä #jere pöyhönen #cha cha cha

[itsallmadonnasfault]

Madonna 1985

#Madonna #1985 #Live Aid #Madonna 1985

[ramblingqueenfangirl]

Day 10 Just under the wire for this one! Phew.

That day in July when Queen ruled the whole world and it only took a couple of notes for Freddie to become emperor for at least 21 minutes. GOAT!

#queen #freddiemercury #johndeacon #rogertaylor #brianmay #jimhutton #live aid 1985 #Queen at live aid #best live rock performance ever #magic #freddiefuckingmercury #Freddie Mercury