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Live Aid - 6pm BBC2

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NooNakedJacuzziness · 12/07/2025 17:32

I’m getting snacks and drinks in and watching the whole thing while pretending I’m 12 again. Can’t wait for the Quo to kick it off in half an hour! Anyone else gonna watch?

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NotAntisocialJustSelectivelySocial · 12/07/2025 17:48

I was also 12.

DM brought all our mattresses & duvets downstairs (us kids, not hers), we had a friend over to stay with us and we all watched it on the one tv in the household, with the lights off when it got dark for extra atmosphere. We all crashed out eventually, no idea if DM watched actually the whole lot or not.

NooNakedJacuzziness · 12/07/2025 18:04

I bet Prince Charles hated every minute!

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Raahh · 12/07/2025 18:05

I was 13.

I did just chortle at the disclaimer at the start that the donation links were no longer valid Grin

NooNakedJacuzziness · 12/07/2025 18:08

They probably give out an address to send cheques to 😁

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OddBoots · 12/07/2025 18:13

I don't remember watching it at the time but that might be my memory as I was little so I am pretty much enjoying it for the first time.

JaneJeffer · 12/07/2025 18:13

Raahh · 12/07/2025 18:05

I was 13.

I did just chortle at the disclaimer at the start that the donation links were no longer valid Grin

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JaneJeffer · 12/07/2025 18:14

The North
The Midlands
The South

Raahh · 12/07/2025 18:15

This is so funny.

I remember these phone numbers.
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magicpant · 12/07/2025 18:15

I paid for too much for the DVD box set

Appalonia · 12/07/2025 18:15

Me! Watching Status Quo and seeing the huge crowd made me really emotional. Can't believe it was 40 years ago!

tinyspiny · 12/07/2025 18:16

I was there and still remember very little of it

Raahh · 12/07/2025 18:16

Williams and Glyn.

oh, the memories.

SwedishEdith · 12/07/2025 18:17

I had to miss loads of it as I was working on the day. I may finally see some of the bits I've never seen. Laughing at the warning not to try to donate now.

Appalonia · 12/07/2025 18:18

JaneJeffer · 12/07/2025 18:14

The North
The Midlands
The South

I'm watching a few minutes behind on iplayer, so I had no idea what you were talking about till now!😂

Raahh · 12/07/2025 18:18

It was one of those things that we recorded (on several 2 hour video tapes probably, that were then out in special 'faux leather' cases) marked ' do not record over' But we never actually watched it again after the event, as far as I can tell.

There were probably several gaps , where we hunted down a new tape Grin.

MrsMoastyToasty · 12/07/2025 18:19

I watched it from start to finish. It the end of a busy week for me because I had left secondary school the previous day.

Raahh · 12/07/2025 18:21

I've just realised this does actually go on til 1am Grin
I am recording it. The new fangled way.

Raahh · 12/07/2025 18:22

Snazzy jingles.

DisplayPurposesOnly · 12/07/2025 18:22

I was 17, it was the summer after I'd started at sixth form college and I had a brilliant gang of friends. We all piled over to Roger's house to watch it, there was probably cider and Liebfraumilch, and then squashed into his folks' caravan for the night.

PuppyMonkey · 12/07/2025 18:23

I’ve just started it so am about ten behind. Quo really nailed that opening number. Grin

JaneJeffer · 12/07/2025 18:24

The awkward interviews

PuppyMonkey · 12/07/2025 18:24

I was 18 - just finished my A levels and having the best summer of my life.

TheFinePrintess · 12/07/2025 18:25

Thanks for the reminder OP, I was in the garden but just saw your post and came inside.
I was 15, strangely emotional to think of the person I was back then…🥹
I did a stint on one of those telethons answering the phones in the tv studio in the late 80s -The most famous person we saw was a local weatherman🤣

SwedishEdith · 12/07/2025 18:25

It feels so amateurish compared to how glossy it would be now. Still love Bob 🤩 😍

JaneJeffer · 12/07/2025 18:25

Bob looks so young

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