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?

Think they planned to do Pride but had to drop it due to Bono’s walkabout.

Watching Bono at the edge of the stage reaching out to the crowd and it was nice to see that it was all fans and not the usual VIP section where everyone stands stoney faced.

Also no corporate sponsors. Nowadays they would be sponsored up to the hilt.

I thought they were great @MissAmbrosia

We saw Simple Minds at IOW Festival last year and weren’t particularly impressed, he kept shouting at everyone to get their hands in the air!

Sting is back

There definitely fewer female acts then than there would be now - never really noticed it at the time.

With a big white shirt

friggin sting gets everywhere 🙄

love Dont you forget about me!

He was on the original song, so seems fair.

I think bananarama were the only females singing on Do they know it's Christmas.
I think many of the popular female artists at the time were American.

Definitely.

Money is for Nothing. It's hard to imagine the impact MTV had now when you can stream anything you want.

Band member in the red jacket is a tad keen

I'm kinda confused now, who's in the UK and who's in Philadelphia!

It's just a benchmark for timelines that's all. The end of the war is quite a notable historic date.

And Jodie Whatley from Shalimar.

Anyone remember how people bought the tickets for Live Aid? Dh and I can't recall.

Wild. I was 20. DD is 29 NOW and her grandad served in WW2. He was a little older than average, but was 18 when war broke out. Lots of my friends had parents who were old enough. You only needed to be 18 in say 1944 so born in 1926 and 59 in 1985. Surely lots of people in their late teens/20s had a parent (father anyway) who was 59?

Ex boyfriend was a MTV presenter, he keeps popping up on recent documentaries ive watched (weird)

Charlie Burchill for me

Brothers in Arms had just been released in the summer of 85 and Dire Straits were becoming superstars. Tens of millions of CD sales, constant rotation on MTV and massive global stadium tours followed, then Mark Knopfler decided he was done with superstardom, broke up the band & went back to the quiet life. Sensible chap.

sultans of Swing!

God that must be weird!

So true