Live Aid 1985

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Just watching the New Elizabethans programme on BBC 2 now. They've just covered Bob Geldof and Live Aid and I just wondered if any mumsnetters were there? I was only 4 in 1985 but some of you must have been? What was it like?

@NeonK - I am you in reverse - we were travelling back to Scotland from a holiday in Wales . I was 15 and raging when I realised the dates and couldn't watch the whole thing. However, was chuffed I got back in time to see George, but was gutted he didn't do any Wham songs (v. important to me at the time . I stayed up and watched to the very end @ 4am - Mick Jagger and Tina Turner were amazing!

I was 24 and watching at home.

I remember Madonna's set, iirc there had been a recent media storm about revealing photos of her taken a good while before her music career took off. She was getting criticism about them even though they were taken some time ago.

On the day she was complaining about being too warm and said in an aside that although she was too hot she "wasn't taking shit off today" as she would be criticised for it in ten years time.

I remember thinking she needed to get over herself and said "no one will remember who you are in ten years time".

No eye for musical longevity me.

I was in my mid 20s and thought it was a bit meh at the time. It's only looking back that you realise the impact.

I don't think the older generation felt the lurve at the time though. My father said "why doesn't he put his hand in his own pocket"?

.. meant lurve for Bob Geldof..

Wasn't there but watching on tv as a 12 year old was amazing, we had delivery pizza for the first time that day too and walked to the new 7 11 for fizzy drinks you fill up your cup yourself which was almost as exciting.

Led Zeppelin are the anti Queen. They were so bad they have banned showing their performance. Apparently Jimmy Page hated Phil Collins on drums. 'Does anybody remember laughter?'

I was 13.

I had no interest in watching aging rockers so I went shopping with my mum. It was a boiling hot day and the shops were empty.

I wish they'd show the whole thing again so we can see just how bad some of the acts really were!

I heard some of it from a back garden in Cricklewood!

Yes. I was 20. It began my love of U2 and especially BAD. The excitement building up to Queen was amazing. One of my top 5 days ever.

A glorious day, we spent most of it indoors watching it on t.v. and then went to Wembley arena in the evening to see Dire Straits. They came off stage in the stadium,straight across to the arena and came on stage there. Played a brilliant set. It was my future wife and I's first date. One of the best days of my life. A huge queue to get back on the tube, only just got the last train having run across hungerford bridge to Waterloo.

I watched almost all of it before falling asleep around 3am. I was 12 at the time and absolutely loved it. 1984 is my favourite year ever musically, so Live Aid came along at the perfect time for me :)
Many years later my ex bought me the boxed set of dvd's, they are the only dvd's I still own. It was an amazing day, back before X-Factor etc destroyed music.