|
OOP Live Aid Concert 4 DVD Set Two Continents Bohemian Rhapsody The Who Sting David Bowie U2 Paul McCartney Queen Clapton Mick Jagger U2
Watch Queen's legendary set as seen in Bohemian Rhapsody!
This is a Live Aid 4 DVD set with the shrink wrap missing and storage wear to the exterior box in very lightly played condition. Any music fan can tell you exactly where they were on July 13th, 1985. There had never been a concert event of such magnitude with the biggest names in music performing in a concert broadcast live from 2 continents to an audience of over 1.5 billion. It is estimated that 85% of the world's television sets were tuned in to Live Aid that day. Now, for the first time on home video, you can own the concert that was arguably the biggest rock event in history featuring David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Madonna, Paul McCartney, Sting, The Who, U2, Neil Young, and many, many more. Over 10 hours of performances in a premium-packaged 4-DVD set. Billed as "the day music changed history," the twin Live Aid concerts of July 13, 1985, were held in both Philadelphia and London to raise money to fight the famines in Africa. The concert was the brainchild of Bob Geldof and Midge Ure and represented the efforts of countless musicians and technicians.
It’s been more than 33 years since Queen, and their electric front man Freddie Mercury, charged onto the stage of the 1985 Live Aid concert and performed the set often lauded as the greatest live gig of all time. The release of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the Queen biopic starring Rami Malek as Mercury, has provoked a swell of nostalgia and emotion around that moment in musical history.
Amid an atmosphere charged with pessimism, Mercury danced out on stage and welcomed the crowd like his dearest friend. By the time he sat down at the piano and hit the first few notes of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” he was the absolute master of the stadium.
Past their peak, Queen was not expected to shine. Mercury, in particular, had been the focus of rumors in the press, where speculation over his sexuality had arguably choked the band’s attempts to break into the American market. Over the next 21 minutes, his audience, and the 1.9 billion people watching on TV around the world, fell in love with him. His humor, his hyper-masculine energy, and that phenomenal four octave voice were irresistible. Voted in 2005 as the greatest live performance of all time, Queen's entire Live Aid set is included on disc 2.
The DVD set opens with a documentary on the crisis, followed by videos of the two hit songs that represented the collaborative nature of Geldof's effort Band Aid' s "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and USA for Africa's "We Are the World." Live Aid was never intended to be released in a recorded format, so preservation of the footage has been unreliable, resulting in some glaring omissions. Judicious decisions were made on which acts would be included and which ones would not, due to either technical difficulties in the original performances, the absence of original footage, or for music rights reasons. For example, Rick Springfield, the Four Tops, the Hooters, the Power Station, Billy Ocean, Kool and the Gang and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young were among those acts that were left off the DVD. Many of the artists' songs that were performed were also omitted including Madonna who performed three solo songs in the concert, but only two were included on the DVD. Tom Petty performed four songs, but only two were included on DVD and Patti LaBelle sang 6 songs but only 2 of those were included.
|