U2 At Live Aid

How U2's breakthrough performance at Wembley Stadium on July 13th 1985 almost never happened and nearly got Bono fired as lead singer.

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Music

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• U2
• Live Aid
• Bono
• Larry Mullen
• Wembley Stadium
• July 13th 1985.

[carolannsydney]

queen were awesome of course (i was right at the front), and i know you didn't have to be there to have an opinion - that's not what i said! - I said, unless you were there, in the crowd, breathing the air  thatthe energy that u2 gave off that day would be hard to fathom!

[TroyDouglas917]

@carolannsydney No, you can fathom what a day it was from the TV pictures. You only have to compare the crowd to Live 8 twenty years later. The audience was dead there. The front of the crowd was reserved for corporate clients who didn't give a shit about the show and every time a song ended, the heads went down to the mobile phones and the audience tuned out. Whereas at Live Aid, the audience was tuned in 100% at all times & really felt they were changing the world with that gig. A great day.

[carolannsydney]

Bono's spontaneous leap onto the ground and his dance with the girl was both poetic and brazen. I was there and have never felt such energy from a crowd before or since. U2s set was simply amazing. I was 16 and this was the third time I had seen U2. Queen were fantastic too but it was U2 who brought real soul to the stage and the fans that day - unless you were there on the day you really can't understand!

[TroyDouglas917]

@carolannsydney You don't have to have been there to have an opinion about Live Aid. U2 were stars who became superstars that day, Queen were superstars who became legends. Queen's performance has been voted the best live performance of all time and it is.

[desasterz]

Is Bono acting a Jesus stage charachter? I can't get enough of waching him waltsing with the girl... It's so beautiful. There are things that anoy me about Bono, but that's what I admier about him. That kind of shit.

[TroyDouglas917]

@desasterz U2 were a cult band who on the verge of becoming superstars and Live Aid was the moment that happened. It was clever of Bono to go into the crowd because everyone remembered that moment. He sold himself and his band like a pro to the world's public and it worked.

[SuperDistinguished]

Great performances, nevertheless on that day Queen stole the show :)

[jlitt2003]

This was the moment, in front of 1 billion viewers, that U2 went from cult band to superstars.

[mathbrmath]

The greatest show on that night was Queen's one. But this show is awesome for a U2 before Joshua Tree

[carolannsydney]

Bono's spontaneous leap onto the ground and his dance with the girl was both poetic and brazen. I was there and have never felt such energy from a crowd before or since. U2s set was simply amazing. I was 16 and this was the third time I had seen U2. Queen were fantastic too but it was U2 who brought real soul to the stage and the fans that day.

[carolannsydney]

Bono's spontaneous leap onto the ground and his dance with the girl was both poetic and brazen. I was there and have never felt such energy from a crowd before or since. U2s set was simply amazing. I was 16 and this was the third time I had seen U2. Queen were fantastic too but it was U2 who brought real soul to the stage and the fans that day.

[shempone]

Queen smoked em

[oldtimee]

@nsav8 you got that right m8.

[MegaTrainspotter]

yeah ...why did they want to pull out?