Live Aid - 6pm BBC2

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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?

❤️ Elton!

Well it was v hot...😂

He looks like John McCrirrick!

Is that Kiki Dee? Also just to say we saw Elton on tour in Leeds recently and pretty sure it’s the same band…definitely same percussionist

I’m patiently waiting for George to join Elton.

@JenniferBooth I think it is improving, my Mothers Union had a talk from an organisation that promotes music in care homes and particularly advocates for personalised play lists that we should all think of doing in advance as they can be very helpful for dementia patients. https://www.playlistforlife.org.uk/

Elton was married to a woman at this time

Elton just sounds like he’s shouting

Is that Kiki on backing? (the only one not in hot pants )

Elton is a legend. Kiki Dee there doing bvs on the left.

Ime it's the music from very early childhood that people connect most with, in nursing homes, rather than music from their teens. Not so much music they were "fans" of but music that was around, being played a lot, when they were very young, sitting on their mother's knee.

I used to volunteer for them before the pandemic doing just those sort of talks. Never really got back after lockdown.

Funnily enough, I saw him in the 1980s and he announced that he was retiring from touring, and that this would be his last.

40 odd years later . . . 😂

Oh thats great

I think Elton still had his own hair at this point, before the transplant

It’s music associated with significant life events mostly, but actually it is teens/twenties that you generally latch onto.

I remember my dad watching it on the telly upstairs and me going to watch bits of it with him. I was 6 at the time. Watching it now, I can remember being amazed at the size of Wembley. The sound quality is amazing for 40 years ago - at least on tv- I wonder how well they could hear in the stadium.

I LOVE remember rattling through the numbers to call: The North; The South 😆😆

Ooh yes, it does look like Kiki Dee!

That’s lovely

Maybe not so much on top, hence the hat

He's had the same band since the beginning. Says a lot about the man. We went to the O2 last year. He was incredible.

Is it Kiki Dee?? I love a bit of Kiki Dee - Amoureuse and Star are absolute bangers.

I agree. Anyone else remember Stephen TIn Tin Duffy

They a different number of lines on their picture for tv. Different technical system. I remember watching early episodes of the comedy Soap on channel 4 and everything had a yellow hue.

Can you tell I'm not a scientist? 😬😁

Elton can definitely hit those notes a damn sight better than Dua Lipa in the mangled recent version.