Monday, July 13, 2015

Live Aid

It's 12 noon in London, 7 a.m. in Philadelphia, and this thing--made by the BBC about Live Aid, which happened 30 years ago today--is amazing.

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  1. Live Aid was such a huge event. Definitely the top pop culture event of our lifetime it seems to me.

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  2. I loved it so much, and everything I felt and feel about it is voiced by someone in this BBC documentary: Queen was surprisingly great; I was hoping the three living Beatles would reunite (and, for a moment, thought they had), and this was the official grand opening of U2 in my world. The only things I would add would be that I actually thought it was pretty cool what Phil Collins did and that I actually enjoyed the Led Zeppelin recreation.

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  3. I agree about the Led Zeppelin thing. I thought it was perfect for the moment. It's like these guys just showed up and walked on stage with no prep at all. It worked. Sade was also fantastic and I seem to recall seeing BB King in like Denmark or something.

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  4. Still waiting for Springsteen to appear.

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  5. If I were to write a history of rock music, I would end the book with Live Aid. For me, this was the moment where rock music became an topic for nostalgia, instead of being something new. That doesn't mean Live Aid wasn't great -- it was great. But whereas the rock festivals of the late 1960's were all about introducing America to new voices, Live Aid was mostly a celebration of the past.

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