Been seeing a lot of stuff this week with the 40th anniversary of Live Aid on July 13th, 1985

I have a very distinct memory of where I was and what was going on that day, no was not there but it was going on live about 18 miles away. I remember working stripping off wallpaper off plaster walls in my sisters bedroom in our house in Norristown, PA that day, was age 12 and had it playing live on the radio on WMMR Philadelphia.

Love how that Freddie Mercury movie from a few years back recreated his set down to the waxed paper Pepsi cups on the piano at the Wembley Stadium side of this concert and remember being amazed at hearing that Phil Collins played there in London then hopped on a Concorde jet, flew to Philly and played at JFK Stadium there all in the same day!

Did any SF members go to this? I remember working with a girl years ago that did go and she said it was 100,000 people there at the JFK Stadium side in Philly and how people were just pissing on the ground in place because you could not move around and get to a restroom.

Live Aid was not an event that resonated with me at the time. I did not watch any of it in real time, but I have watched a few clips of it years later. My musical tastes in 1985 were very much non-mainstream, and at the time, I had no interest with most of the acts at Live Aid.

I was at Live Aid in Philadelphia.

I went to work Friday morning packed for the weekend and didn't sleep until I passed out back home Sunday afternoon.

There was a big concert somewhere in the middle but don't remember much of it.

I sold the ticket stub on eBay for more than it initially cost.

I watched much of it on TV. I lived close by, but was still too young to go to concerts then. Imagine singing Money For Nothing now. They'd get canceled, but Dire Straits were huge back then.

My family and I were staying with my cousin down in Monterey. Her husband was at DLI for some seriously advanced stuff for several years and they were really into many of the performers. Their TV was on for a LONG time, they had VCR tapes stacked-up recording and my parents, who were of an older generation couldn't understand what the big deal was as they and other relatives were into (stuck) only listening to classical music. Meanwhile, my sister and I thought it was pretty cool seeing 'adults' that were into popular contemporary music, and the crowds on the screen was really awesome.

Had it on tv but didn't pay much attention to it. Only thing I remember is the announcer,
white guy with big afro. By the end of the show he looked so frazzled out it was ridiculous.

The group that kicked off Live Aid in Philly that morning, The Hooters have always been a favorite group of mine, saw them a few times in Germany saw them in Philly and they are coming around this October to our area and may go see them again.

They’re still going strong!

(The narrator gets it wrong here, they weren’t in London)

I watched it live on TV. I too remember being excited to see Phil Collin’s fly over to play both venues. It was amazing to think of all the talent involved with that production.

I watched some of it on TV but don't remember a lot of it. I was 13 and it was the summer after 7th grade and some of the "older" acts weren't as known to me at that time. We knew what as on the radio and MTV at the time.

But by 1986 I was much more aware of "classic rock" and watched the Atlantic Records anniversary in 1987 with Led Zeppelin doing a set, and then the Knebworth thing in 1990.

But all these big benefits for starving people in Africa - they were fashionable at the time - but the public lost interest after a little while and not much changed in Africa. If you count Somalia, Rwanda, and Sudan, it got worse.