Bahahaha. Damnit I could swear I heard the reason about Prince once but I can't remember what it was now. Is it just in this thread already and I'm too lazy to search for it?
Hell, I don't care either. I could talk about Live Aid all day. I could watch my favourite parts of Live Aid a good 300 more times before I could possibly get tired of them, if I even would at that many. I had just scored the job I'd long dreamt of when I last posted a zillion messages to this thread at once last year. I had a perfectly good reason to go nuts at the time, you see. I was very happy and very, very scared.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 16 August 2008 09:09 (fifteen years ago) link
35 years ago today. It probably isn't fair to single out Elton but the first couple of minutes plus of his performance are hilarious.
0.56 incoherent slurring1:01 nose pinch!1:04 incredible 'shreds' video style guitar howl2:04 appalling whining for a few seconds
He gives it his best go but as the comments underneath attest it sounds mostly bloody awful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy371rkUCr4
― piscesx, Monday, 13 July 2020 12:46 (three years ago) link
Cat Stevens turning up with his guitar to resume being Cat Stevens after years of reclusivity.
He made it to the forward running order. But not to the actual show.
He went back to "not being cat stevens" for another 20 years or so.
― Mark G, Monday, 13 July 2020 13:39 (three years ago) link
All I remember is Simon Le Bon way flubbing a high note in that James Bond song, and the control-room guy quickly cutting to a shot of the bass player wincing. I rewound that part a few times.
― Lie Bot, Saturday, June 9, 2007 3:37 AM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K0jE-Nr5Io
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 13 July 2020 13:41 (three years ago) link