Bob Geldof said to Queen: “Don’t be smart”
Let’s go back for a moment to 13 July 1985, the day on which the Live Aid In the Wembley stadiums in London and John F. Kennedy in Philadelphia, to raise funds for the famine that was then scourging Ethiopia. To give reason is an interview with the Radio Times magazine by the two Queen, Brian May And Roger Taylor. The two British musicians reminded what the organizer of the concert said to them, Bob Geldofbefore getting on the London stage on the afternoon of July 13 forty years ago.
This is the story of Brian and Roger and what Geldof said: “Don’t be smart; only the hits play. You have 17 minutes.” THE Queen The advice followed and in the twenty -one minutes of their extraordinary performance they played six songs: “Bohemian Rhapsody “,” Radio Ga “,” Ay-Oh/Hammer to Fall “, “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, “We Will Rock You”, “We are the Champions “ and, alone Freddie Mercury And Brian Mayin the evening, “Is this The World We Created?”.
The drummer Roger Taylor He continued again by saying: “During” Radio Ga “, it seemed that the entire stadium was in unison. But then I looked up during” We are the Champions “and the crowd seemed to be an entire field of swaying wheat”.
Although their performance is almost unanimously considered as the best of those of
Live Aid, Brian May
,
Freddie Mercury
And
John Deacon
Initially they thought that the idea of playing that charity concert would be a fiasco.
Roger
Taylor,
Instead, he was enthusiastic about it.
Brian May
Remember again: “We were not on tour or we were playing, it seemed like a crazy idea, this story of having 50 bands in the same program. We thought it would be a disaster. In particular, Freddie said: ‘I don’t have the right feeling for this thing’. He was not the leader of the band, but if he was imposed, there was no way to move him, so we let us lose”.
However, rethinking us, May realized that Taylor was right in saying that the band had to present himself on stage. “I said to Freddie: ‘If we wake up the day after this concert at Live Aid and we weren’t there, we will be very sad’. He replied: ‘Oh, fuck, let’s do it’. It was one of the few moments in life when you know you do something for all the right reasons”.
