“Freddie, particularly, learned this magical way of involving everybody in a huge football stadium, he could make everybody feel that they were in contact.” “We did have an unfair advantage, we had done football stadiums,” recalls Brian May. In just 21 minutes, in front of a worldwide audience of 1.9 billion people, Queen delivered what has since been widely regarded as the greatest live gig of all time. On July 13, 1985, many of the world’s biggest music stars came together in London and Philadelphia to stage a global charity concert – organized by Boomtown Rats singer Bob Geldof and Ultravox frontman Midge Ure – to raise awareness and money for a devastating famine in Ethiopia. Queen revisit their iconic performance at Live Aid on the latest episode of their weekly series The Greatest.
