Live Aid - Biggest mistake of my life

[Lord Clod]

Back in those hazy 80's I was given two tickets to Live Aid...I had been invited to a party so I decided not to go....and I actually said...it will be ****.....oh my god...I spent the day watching most of it...with the tickets in my pocket....as you can imagine I was called some names that day...and afterwards...infact I still get a cold shudder everytime I remember how I made the wrongest ever choice on that day in 1985.:cry:

[sixtyten]

Re: Live Aid - Biggest mistake of my life

You were right.

It was ****

[suzannewozere2]

Re: Live Aid - Biggest mistake of my life

I was at a wedding.

[Lord Clod]

Re: Live Aid - Biggest mistake of my life

Its still one of my biggest regrets...

[sixtyten]

Re: Live Aid - Biggest mistake of my life

My biggest regret would have been going

[Lord Clod]

Re: Live Aid - Biggest mistake of my life

Why Daz it had the greats...Freddie U2 The Who...

[sixtyten]

Re: Live Aid - Biggest mistake of my life

Greats??
hahahahaha

Status Quo
12.19 : Style Council
12.44 : Boomtown Rats
13.00 : Adam Ant
13.06 : INXS (video from Melbourne)
13.16 : Ultravox
13.34 : Loudness (video from Japan)
13.47 : Spandau Ballet
13.51 : Bernard Watson
14.02 : Joan Baez
14.07 : Elvis Costello
14.10 : The Hooters
14.15 : Opus (video from Austria)
14.22 : Nik Kershaw
14.32 : The Four Tops
14.38 : B.B. King (video from The Hague)
14.45 : Billy Ocean
14.52 : Black Sabbath
14.55 : Sade
15.12 : Run DMC
15.18 : Sting
15.27 : Rick Springfield
15.35 : Phil Collins
15.45 : REO Speedwagon
15.50 : Howard Jones
15.58 : Autograph (video from Moscow)
16.03 : Bryan Ferry
16.15 : Crosby, Still & Nash
16.24 : Udo Lindenberg (video from Cologne)
16.26 : Judas Priest
16.38 : Paul Young - Alison Moyet
17.00 Linkup
between Wembley in the UK and JFK in the US
17.02 : Bryan Adams
17.20 : U2
17.40 : The Beach Boys
18.00 : Dire Straits & Sting
18.26 : George Thorogood & the Destroyers / Bo Diddley / Albert Collins
18.44 : Queen
19.03 : David Bowie / Mick Jagger ( video)
19.07 : Simple Minds
19.22 : David Bowie
19.41 : The Pretenders
20.00 : The Who
20.20 : Santana / Pat Metheny
20.50 : Elton John
20.57 : Ashford & Simpson / Teddy Pendergrass
21.05 : Elton John / Kiki Dee / Wham!
21.30 : Madonna
21.48 : Freddie Mercury / Brian May
21.51 : Paul McCartney
21.54 : McCartney / Bowie / Pete Townshend / Alison Moyet / Bob Geldof
21.56 UK Finale from Wembley
22.14 : Tom Petty
22.30 : Kenny Loggins
22.49 : The Cars
23.07 : Neil Young
23.43 : The Power Station
00.21 : The Thompson Twins
00.39 : Eric Clapton
01.04 : Phil Collins
01.13 : Robert Plant /Jimmy Page / John Paul Jones
01.47 : Duran Duran
02.15 : Patti LaBelle
02.50 : Hall & Oates / Eddie Kendricks / David Ruffin
03.15 : Mick Jagger
03.28 : Mick Jagger / Tina Turner
03.39 : Bob Dylan / Keith Richards / Ron Wood
03.55 US Finale

The only "Greats" IMHO are in RED.. rest can bugger off

[Lord Clod]

Re: Live Aid - Biggest mistake of my life

Shocked and stunned...shocked and stunned....

[rossobantam]

Re: Live Aid - Biggest mistake of my life

I was working in the dining halls at Butlins Skegness...watched Live Aid on the staff room tv between shifts

[curmudgeon]

Re: Live Aid - Biggest mistake of my life

I was there. It was hot, sweaty, the sound quality was apalling, the performers were, in the main, average, but the spirit was phenomenal. I have never before or since been in such a large group of hot uncomfortable people in which nobody lost their temper or got in the slightest bit shirty. A wonderful day. Got home at about midnight, gatecrashed a party at the nurses' home and dined out on the 'I was there' routine. Marvellous.

[RogerMoore]

Re: Live Aid - Biggest mistake of my life

Watched it all day on TV - i still remember the shock of Bob Geldof saying the F word live!

[Elbmek]

Re: Live Aid - Biggest mistake of my life

It was one of those gigs I was glad I never went to, if I had to listen to Geldof crying one more time, I would SCREAM!!!!

[agfagaevart]

Re: Live Aid - Biggest mistake of my life

Its still one of my biggest regrets...

Don't worry man. If you had gone, you would've missed ol' Bob Geldof's rant about not going down the pub. And when David Hepworth said he'd like to read out the address, Bob replied "F**k the address!" This shocked even poor Sarah Green.

[Derekflint]

Re: Live Aid - Biggest mistake of my life

I missed most of the early part - I was watching Planet of the Apes for the first time - 'Damn you all to hell!'

I love that movie.

[kazboot]

Re: Live Aid - Biggest mistake of my life

I watched most of it on tv that day in between having a barbecue, it was a beautiful day.
It was an amazing event, but now all I can really remember is Status Quo kicking off with 'Rockin' All Over The World' and the unforgettable Freddie Mercury performance with Queen. Magic.