Paul McCartney’s accident at Live Aid

The performance of Queen On the stage of the Wembley stadium in London on the occasion of the Live Aid On the afternoon of July 13, 1985, the best of all those that followed the day of the day is still considered today. If i Queen They were the best, on the other side of the scale the performance that closed one of the most famous concerts in the history of music, that of Paul McCartney.

When
Paul McCartney
took place sitting behind the piano to sing
“Let it be”
of the
Beatles
It happened that his microphone at the beginning of the performance had a malfunction. After a couple of minutes the microphone was repaired, so the audience present finally managed to hear the song.

In an interview recently granted to the British newspaper Times the organizer of the historic event,
Bob Geldof,
He recalled the accident that occurred to the former beatle. “Paul asked me which song should have sang and I replied” Let it be “, because it’s a blessing. Then his microphone wandered, then Pete Townshend grabbed me on one side and said: ‘Let’s help’, David Bowie grabbed me on the other side, and with Alison Moyet we went to sing with him.” Now the video has been mounted so that the voice can be heard.

Geldof still talks about
Paul McCartney
Saying: “It was his first time on stage since John Lennon had died. Linda, Stella and the boys convinced him to do it. While he came by car from the Sussex, listening to the U2 on the radio, they were really good and he went up the nervousness, especially because once he said yes, given the hierarchy in pop, with the uninitted beatles at the top, he would have had the further burden of closing the show.”