Live Aid - 6pm BBC2

[NooNakedJacuzziness]

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?

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.

I bet Prince Charles hated every minute!

I was 13.

I did just chortle at the disclaimer at the start that the donation links were no longer valid

They probably give out an address to send cheques to 😁

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.

The North
The Midlands
The South

This is so funny.

I remember these phone numbers.

I paid for too much for the DVD box set

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

I was there and still remember very little of it

Williams and Glyn.

oh, the memories.

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.

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

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 .

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.

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

Snazzy jingles.

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.

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

The awkward interviews

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

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🤣

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

Bob looks so young