Live Aid 30th Anniversary

[Mossguitar]

Haha, Freddy singing We Are The Champions at a charity for starving and poor people in Africa. Epic! But a great performance it was 

[holaknopfler]

I really like Live Aid. It was the first time I saw DS on video, and the reason I started to love their music when I was kid. Brings back happy memories!

[JF]

it is the only official recording from the BIA tour era,

yes indeed, and  if you realize the BIA tour is the only one not being officlaly released. All other tourshave at leats one song officlally released :

78-79 (we can count these ones for one tour) : live at the BBC
80-81 : TOL on Live at the BBC (version form Dortmund)
82-83 : Alchemy
85-86 : noone, except Live Aid
Mandela 88 : officila Video featuring BIA and MFN if memory serves
91-92 : On the night
96 : A night in lonodn (even if it's not really a concert from the tour)
2001 : TRD bonus disc and Why Aye Man Maxi
2002 : idem
2005 : official downloads (can't remember the provider)
2006 : Real live roadrunning
2008 : ok the other exception
2010 : Simfy live
2011 : ok the other other exception
2013 : Bleecker
2015 : Bleecker

so if we except 2008 and 2011, the BIA tour is the only one which have no official release...knowing that it is considered by many fans and non fans as the peak of their career....

[Ar (aka Enlight)]

"Brothers in Arms" & "wonderful Tonight" performed during the Nelson Mandela tribute (1988-06-11) were officially released on a VHS tape.

[dustyvalentino]

it is the only official recording from the BIA tour era,

yes indeed, and  if you realize the BIA tour is the only one not being officlaly released. All other tourshave at leats one song officlally released :

78-79 (we can count these ones for one tour) : live at the BBC
80-81 : TOL on Live at the BBC (version form Dortmund)
82-83 : Alchemy
85-86 : noone, except Live Aid
Mandela 88 : officila Video featuring BIA and MFN if memory serves
91-92 : On the night
96 : A night in lonodn (even if it's not really a concert from the tour)
2001 : TRD bonus disc and Why Aye Man Maxi
2002 : idem
2005 : official downloads (can't remember the provider)
2006 : Real live roadrunning
2008 : ok the other exception
2010 : Simfy live
2011 : ok the other other exception
2013 : Bleecker
2015 : Bleecker

so if we except 2008 and 2011, the BIA tour is the only one which have no official release...knowing that it is considered by many fans and non fans as the peak of their career....

There was soundboard from 96 released as a bonus disc with the Sultans of Swing compilation too.

[Jules]

Led Zeppelin perfomance on Live Aid was so so bad that they asked to be deleted from the dvd...

[Fletch]

I have the boxset on dvd, I only ever play DS, Queen and believe it or not.. Madonna! I think she's great at live aid, and I'd never seen her wearing so many clothes!

[Jules]

And what about Phil "crossing the ocean" Collins? He managed to play in London and Philadelphia!

[Fletch]

Yeah good memories, they made a big deal of Phil doing his thing. Watching the day live I remember the sound troubles with Paul's let it be set, and the unforgettable Bob Geldof swearing live on the bbc saying something like "get the fking phone numbers up..." - we all couldn't belive what we'd heard it was so shocking at the time. A day I remember fondly as a kid.

[ds1984]

I have the boxset on dvd, I only ever play DS, Queen and believe it or not.. Madonna! I think she's great at live aid, and I'd never seen her wearing so many clothes!

Madonna is a true performer. I remember seeing her on TV for the live8. Not my cuppa for most if his music but I remember that her first song was sung live (ie without playback) and it was really vocally correct, then for the next one she needed to dance and did it on pre recorded tape and this where I lost interest in his performance. 

[JF]

It is the only official live version of SoS with sax on DVD. It is a bit less good that Wembley'85 3 days before, the band was a bit less focused (stress ?) and no soundcheck, but nonetheless a real bad-ass version

hey Herlock tu parles souvent de version "bad-ass". comment tu traduirais ça en français ?
"version qui troue le cul "?
"version à tomber sur le cul"
"version du feu de dieu"
"version à tomber par terre"

juste pour être sûr....

sorry other people, I just wanted to ask this to Herlock, and the french forum si so quiet that I did it there 

[dmg]

It is the only official live version of SoS with sax on DVD. It is a bit less good that Wembley'85 3 days before, the band was a bit less focused (stress ?) and no soundcheck, but nonetheless a real bad-ass version

hey Herlock tu parles souvent de version "bad-ass". comment tu traduirais ça en français ?
"version qui troue le cul "?
"version à tomber sur le cul"
"version du feu de dieu"
"version à tomber par terre"

juste pour être sûr....

sorry other people, I just wanted to ask this to Herlock, and the french forum si so quiet that I did it there 

I would say version avec keyboards and sax. 

[herlock]

It is the only official live version of SoS with sax on DVD. It is a bit less good that Wembley'85 3 days before, the band was a bit less focused (stress ?) and no soundcheck, but nonetheless a real bad-ass version

hey Herlock tu parles souvent de version "bad-ass". comment tu traduirais ça en français ?
"version qui troue le cul "?
"version à tomber sur le cul"
"version du feu de dieu"
"version à tomber par terre"

juste pour être sûr....

sorry other people, I just wanted to ask this to Herlock, and the french forum si so quiet that I did it there 

Les ricains ont le chic pour retourner la scatologie en positif dans leur argot. Ainsi, "The shit" peut vouloir dire "the best of the best".
Ici, "badass" peut se traduire par "de la mort qui tue la vie"

[dmg]

According to Wikipedia, "Donkeys have a notorious reputation for stubbornness" so perhaps this could be labelled a "bad ass" or indeed be the origin of the phrase?

Those crazy Yanks!