Your Lunchtime YouTube Binge – Queen At Live Aid 1985 [Video]

30 Jan 2019 by Jasmine Stone in Celebrities, Entertainment, Music, Video

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In case you didn’t know, Queen are kind of a big deal right now.

The band and their enigmatic frontman Freddie Mercury are back in the limelight (some would say they never left it), as Bohemian Rhapsody looks set to take home an Oscar or two on February 25.

Freddie’s wild ways have become the stuff of legend (cocaine, dwarfs, and llamas, anybody?), and if you’ve seen the movie, there’s a chance you wandered down the YouTube wormhole at some point later.

Well, when you talk about iconic Queen / Freddie moments, the 1985 Live Aid show is a standout.

Fun fact – virtually the entire set was reenacted, down to the most minute details (the Pepsis, half-drunk beers on the piano, the gestures he made to the cameraman, blowing his mom a kiss), in the movie itself.

Get comfy, earphones in, and let it rip:

He did always say “I won’t be a rock star. I will be a legend”, and on that front, he most certainly succeeded.

Lunchtime viewing sorted.

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