Bob Geldof - Live Aid 35th: David Bowie Said "Are You Wearing That!?"
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- An in-depth chat with Bob Geldof about a day that made history. 35 years on from Live Aid, we chat to Bob about what it was like being there and the lasting impact that day at Wembley had on the world.
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I was living in California at the time and woke up at 4AM to record the entire 18 hour concert. Still have them on tape.
Could you burn that on a CD or something? I'd pay money. @bengaljam
@@evanspiewakowski5007 Its a total of 18 hours. I'm an old timer so not sure the best way or even how to transfer from VHS to digital. It would be a huge file.
@@evanspiewakowski5007 definitely!
No contracts, no schedule, no compensation and it turned out to be a once and a life time Rock and Roll mega show. There will never be anything like this ever again.
George, Freddie and David, all serverly missed.
Sooo true❤
RIP & REST IN POWER
George,Freddie and David💝❤
Absolutely
All the great men are gone soon, exept Keith ofcourse because hes immortal.
Ironically Bob's simple outfit was the ideal contrast. It showed humility and someone who just wanted to be invisible to a degree, just pulling an important event together to help others. It was the perfect outfit.
I was a 17-year-old recent high school graduate in the crowd in Philadelphia. Little did I know then, I'd be talking about that day 35 years later. Thank you, Bob, for all you've done and for giving me the concert of my life.
We are the same age. Same story but from Los Angeles. I was 17 and just graduated a month earlier and was glued to the TV watching Live Aid.
I was 13 and that was my first time in England in Wembley at this date 13.07.1985 with a youth group from Germany😊
Fabulous and a brilliant time,my parents watched it too and they were telling me that Dortmund was like a ghosttown because everybody was on tv watching LIVE AID❤💖❤💖
Daniela Schwarz, it must have been great watching Queen live. We could only see them on the live feed in the stadium
I was 18, was going to turn 19 the end of the month. Got up early Saturday morning to watch it on MTV, and watched all day. I knew I was watching history, but I don't think it hit me how important it was until years later.
David Bowie terribly missed ❤️
The guy was just so cool. It’s still hard believing he’s gone. ❤️✌️
David Bowie was brilliant.I still terribly miss him.
RIP & REST IN POWER BEAUTIFUL DAVID BOWIE💖❤💖
He's really a starman now. Rip David Bowie
No, David Bowie left the strong to all children, by singing" we can be a heroe for just one day".
I miss his speech featured in the 12" single of "Do They Know..."
Live Aid was a enormous thing to put together..the idea was created in January and the concert took place in July! Mind you, these were the days of NO cell phones, NO computers, No fax machines..everything Bob did was on an old fashioned telephone! He was exhausted because his phone was ringing all night long while he was organizing this huge event. On concert day his back was "out" and he could hardly move but watching him perform "I Don't like Mondays" you would never know. Sir Bob is brilliant!
No cell phones, No computers, No Fax Machines????
Think you need to think about that again. lol
GammaFax came out in Spting of 1985, cell/mobile phones-came out in Japan in `1982 + came out in UK in mid 1985-my dad had the Motorola 8000X and also rememebr adverts like this-ua-cam.com/video/k6b4NtJdCH8/v-deo.html
+ No computers how do you think banks and other companies worked, also my dad workd in the stock market and worked with computers-we had BBC Micro computers in primary school-my dad and other people I knew had IBM or Amiga, etc
I mean during the Live Aid you saw a few of them walk around with a brick mob phone!
Live Aid is a one off.nit could never be repeated. We don't have the calibre of stars today!
We don’t have the same innocence in our hearts either. It would all be about sponsorship, separate VIP crowd areas, critics tearing some performances to bits etc.
Or enough hair gel an spray 😎
BLM would protest, and John Snow wouldn’t like seeing all the white people.
@@hardlines2635 we had Sade !!!
Live Aid will always be the greatest show of all times!
Better than Woodstock?
Thank you for one of the best memories of my life. #LiveAid85
Same here! I was 19 back then. I can still remember vividly I watched it on TV overnight... waiting for my favorite band - Duran Duran
The man is 100% a legend.
Talented, charismatic, funny & passionate about all he does.
Have no worries about your outfit...you were hot AF 😏
Honest interview from a man who has done so much for so many. A memorable event and a wonderful song, always. Yes he had bitten more than he could chew - but never too big for his boots.
God bless you bob. After all these years much tougher work. To plan in them days what a fab concert and to see Diana. Again made me very emotional. 🙏
I love Bob and the way he tells the story of whatever hes talking about hes so fascinating i could listen to his story's all day ,. great man! ❤
Avril Robertson snap! One of the best days of my life, excluding family. Thank god I have a dvd of Live Aid.
@@stephenwinters6859 aw were you there?..I was only a baby but I'm an old soul love all the music from all who played..and Bob as I said love the guy, would love to have a beer with him lol
I was 13 and with a youth group from Germany the first time in England on the 13th of july 1985.I will never forget it.
I want a timetravelmmachine and then I go back to LIVE AID 1985.My MUM and all this fabulous Stars like FREDDIE,!DAVID& GEORGE will be alive again💝
Sorry for my english♡
@@stephenwinters6859 Oh yeah,I totally agree with you 😊👍
@@danielaschwarz1971 aw wow great memories for you 🙂
It was an absolutely incredible day in the true sense of the word. I was there at Wembley, and Bob describes it so well. It was poignant, surreal, and magical. It can and has been copied, but they will never recreate the aura of the original. A true piece of history.
You are so lucky to have been a part of modern history!
I was in Philly and I agree 100%
I went to the video shop next to the spud basher on my BMX with my pal Ckokky-Bikky to buy two 180 minutes basf vhs tapes to get home and record all my favourite bits. I stayed up all night . Great day.
Bob Geldof. You really did it Man . Brilliant. What a day to reminisce about.
Fascinating interview. I will never forget Live Aid!
Those were the days, it was a brilliant time, you are great and everyone was fabulous and Bowie, my forever love Bowie....how much I miss those days and that emotion that no drugs can beat. Love
How ONE MANS vision can move mountains... he has been been such a great power for good ..
N he changed the 80s ...giving so many of us alive then a day none would ever forget ... Fast Forward to Live 8...n the little girl from The Cars " Drive " video came on stage .now .a beautiful woman ..RADIANT.. in that single moment Live Aid hit home with a sledgehammer...the evidence of what he did . To me Bob Geldof is in the same mould as Oscar Schindler who put humanity before his career or personal wealth.. we forget now the struggle he had against all odds to make it happen. Only 1 man was the catalyst
Queen is/were/will always be Live Aid.
He’s finally wearing his halo. God bless St. Bob!
he's alive isn't he
Bob is still alive and active in music.
God bless Midge Ure
Bob Geldof a example of pure will, stubbornness, persistence, bluntness, and behind it all a big heart.
What an amazing event this man realised and actually made happen. I think Bob Geldof must be an extremely tough and resilient man to have created Live Aid not to mention surviving the tragedies in his life.
Bowie wasnt the only one crying EVERYONE I saw was.....the day was perfect Sir Bob......😢.
i made myself a personal history -I remember watching the entire show while I was on hols in 1985 then on the same day this year I listened to the entire show again only on & online radio -so I repeated history 35 years apart
Thanks Bob Geldof, for the music you brought, kids at time, they came for a cause. Like Queens said
Crazy little thing called love.
Bob Geldoff is a wonderful generous man but what happened to him later was very sad
Some people were born to do greatness Bob is one of these people.
I was only 12 and I remember watching this clip in which they played "Drive" with the images of Ethiopian people dying of starvation. It is hard to hold the tears even now.
All those displays of solidarity helped me to wish the best for my community and for the world.
Thank you, Bob!
God bless you.
Bob Geldof is next to god as far as iam concerned.I enjoy watching live aid still to this day.the millions of people he has helped is amazing .He raised his exwifes child from another man .Prince charles should be looking up to bob.thx bob god has blessed you.
If we ever be able to see and hear live music again we need a live music a live aid 20 20 again ? 🎤🦋🌈🏳️🌈☮️🎵🎶🌍🌍🌏
Impossible. Some of the most epic performers are gone and the others are out of their prime. Not to mention the work ethic and loyalty of that generation no longer exists.
We dont really have the status of stars to do it now. Justin bieber and beyonce are no match to zeppelin, queen and bowie. It might be ok if we could get sir paul, oasis, zeppelin, libertines and a handful of others but you couldnt find 18 hrs worth of massive talents in their prime. Shame but it cant be repeated.
What a great guy ..brilliant interview, always has me transfixed
Could listen to him speak all day
👌❤.
The way Sir Bob is wearing the hat it looks like a halo. Well, he has been known to be called Saint Bob.
That day, a lot of people built themselves palaces in Heaven.
Full title 'Saint 'Fuckin' Bob.
Almost every star sign Libra suffer back pain terribly on and & off throughout their life, Sir Bob Best to you.
As a 6'5" tall Libran, I can vouch for that!!
Status Quo
Guys that really love what they’re doing!
60 Uk hitsingles!
So respect!!!
Well done 👍 bob for what you achieved 🤝. 🇮🇪 🌎 🇬🇧
Brings it all back to hear these recollections from Sir Bob. He sure delivers a great interview. Thanks!
I hope this message reaches Bob Geldof: BOB, YOU ARE A GOD!!!
Queen was on at 6:41pm. I was having my tea with my mum and dad. They're all gone now.
The thing he did during I Don't Like Mondays? I've heard him trot out this line before, it just happened. He doesn't mention that he did exactly the same thing a few weeks before at the Glastonbury festival and got the exact same reaction from the crowd (I was there.) Bit of a fibber old Saint Bob
Paul white, I was part of the security team and he also didn't mention that he had a longer rehearsal slot than anyone else and was a proper pain in the arse during the sound check. I posted a similar comment on another clip about geldof a few months back and a few people have disputed this, most of whom were either too young to have seen the concert live or only saw it on TV, but like yourself i saw it close up so I know what Bob is.
This guy is a natural born storyteller. I could listen to him for hours, he could be reciting a cookery book.
No i saw the live footage it was Queen that got them going Freddie had them in his pocket!!!!
"That's hollywood" is an understatement. The worst part of Bohemian Rhapsody is the pretence that Queen reformed for Live Aid when in fact they'd only days earlier finished the huge The Works tour. Sometimes there is just no need to alter history.
Claire you're the best. Great interview.
Fantastic comments here, but I think the reason for the concert in the first place have been misplaced and the original plight still remains.
exactly! well said. 99% talking about the music, the concert achieved next to nothing sadly
Saint Bob is a true legend 👍
Live Aid was the Woodstock of the 80's
You’re the best Dad ever
can you imagine today's stars or the industry being this selfless and humble?
Hello sir bob
🏅well done for live aid
Thank You BEAUTIFUL ONE. God bless 😇
Lovely bloke. Great interview.
So articulate grazie bob
He was, without doubt, the right man at the right place at the right time. NOONE could have persuaded, coaxed, urged, begged, threatned, forced, cajoled, lured, dragged, and outright bullshitted the biggest stars and egos of the day, the biggest TV networks, the biggest concert promotors, the biggest tech and the biggest venues to all come together for free for a global fundraiser of a kind that had never, ever been done before, the logistics of which would have been a nightmare only beaten by the overwhelmingly daunting task of having all these stars play 3-4 tunes each and then leave the stage and nobody getting top billing. NOBODY, absolutely NOBODY, could have pulled that off - in such a short time, too - other than a loud-mouthed, no-nonsense, boisterous, ballistically incensed Irishman, bulldozing his way with a fury over the state of the world that literally made mountains quake.
Respect, Sir Bob.
(and don’t write any comments accusing me of derogatory remarks about the Hibernian tribes. I’m a quarter Irish myself, you see.)
My favorite performers are Ultravox , Black Sabbath , Led Zeppelin
6:00 Prince Charles went to Status Quo concert for the Princes Trust Charity dressed in a suit with jeans on, back in the early 80s
Yeah I thought something didn't ring true about what Bob just said. Anyway, here's a fabulous write up on Bowie, The Cars and Queen at Live Aid. Enjoy stevepafford.com/carsdrive/
A fish out of water
Irish..gift of the gab! What a guy! Thank you Bobby!
Sir Bob Geldof you are the best! God bless you!
He was born to do this greatest event for cause as humanity
It was an excuse for queen to rock the world
I was Nik Kershaws hair for the whole day, it was such a thrill seeing it all happen from the top of his sweaty head, to think just a year before I was a mere young hopeful standing in for Nenas armpit hair on top of the pops, I've sinced worked with Cindy Lauper, Daryll Hall and was even permed and dyed for a Barry White special
Sounds thrilling, im jealous
I was fourteen and at a wedding. I missed it all. To add insult to injury, the couple divorced.
Scruffy bugger ❤
David Bowieeee lmao i love himm.
Live aid was midge ures idea, not geldofs
Probably. But Midge Ure (who I really love !) is not as charismatic as Geldof, that’s why the medias often refer to Geldof. It’s like Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak for Apple...all people remember the charismatic one, not the guy that is on the side.
Immortal
Love the hat the hair and pink shirt
Bowie is god
Bob how much were the tickets that day.
Remember it like yesterday.
Better in fact.
Why has Bob got a giant Yorkshire Pudding on his head ? He also reminds me of one of the priests from Father Ted...in saying that he is one of my very few heroes..
When music mattered...
September 77,port Elizabeth, weather fine ......
Please let me play a song for you
Dont mention Midge Ure Bobby boy. Oh thats right u never do lol
To be fair - Midge never had anything to do with Live Aid. It was Bob's project from beginning to end. Without his energy, drive, passion and sheer bloody arrogance it would not have happened. Midge was the co-driving force with Bob that spawned Band Aid at the back end of 1984 and resulted in the multi-million selling single 'Do They Know it's Christmas'. Midge wrote the song, but somehow never actually got to sing on it! I agree, Midge never gets the kudos he deserves for Band Aid.
BZ Garson - I think Midge Ure would have a very different story to tell.
@@ziggsstar Bob was skint, now like a lot of those involved he’s a multimillionaire.
@@hardlines2635 Name a 'lot of those involved'? Geldof had a best selling book after Live Aid that sold millions.
Blah blah
I remember the hand thing, the way it was I think it was cancelled out by a Pele gag.
(pele was 80 yesterday & does condom ads at chistmas).
shall put this on reddit someday :)
cheers Bob; keep farting!
ULTRAVOX!
Let's not forget that they Ethiopian girl who was on stage back then who also became the face of live aid still hasn't had any help from them to this day!
I trust you helped her, right?
The hat looks like a halo
Live aid was a brilliant thing and I loved every minute of it, he did well to get it all together but he's a terrible singer and needs to learn when to button it.. 😁
Bob still looks filthier than ever and I love it
He now has a Halo....can anyone else see it.
No contracts just promises. Stressful. And good on Noel Edmonds with his helicopters.
No need to cook more on that aid bone nuff said
🍂💗🍂George Michael miss his voice🍂💗🍂
He looks like father time
I just WISH Tears for fears didn't pull out.
🍂Bob the rats were brilliant that day 🍂
I know he said give me the money but did he say give me the effing money as people kept saying
No he never said it. He said “give me the money” to the camera and shortly afterwards said “no, f**k the address let’s just get the numbers” to David Hepworth. It’s a Mandela effect.
Rocking All Over The World was the Quo hit they didn't write. I think so anyway.
Cutest😘
Well what a complete waste of time that was!!!!!!
Stop patting yourself on the back bob,live aid didn't achieve much at all except allowing Mengistu to buy lots of shiny new weapons.
There's always one miserable sod...
Says an angry nobody on the internet. People like you don't matter.
@@heraldeventsandfilms5970 Not an angry nobody,a sad somebody who believed live aid could solve the hunger problem in Ethiopia. 35 years later and 8 million ethiopians are still starving.
@@adrianmilward142 It was never going to SOLVE the problem but it did and still does assist desperately poor people. To state otherwise, after SO many people gave SO much is an insult and a near-obscenity. But you are always going to be a nobody. You're not right in the head pal.
Thank goodness “Queen” showed up
Live Aid proved absolute Jack Shit people are still starving Mr Geldorf.
How can you say that?
The issue created money,awareness
He did great but my god has this man got an ego.
Without that ego there would have been no Live Aid, simple as.