LIFE CHANGING PERFORMANCE!! First Time Reaction to Queen Live Aid

Almost 40yrs later and Freddie Mercury still has audiences in the palm of his hand. RIP, Freddie.

No special effects, No costume changes. Just a dude in a tank top with total command of everyone in the crowd. A spectacle that is unmatched by anything today.

He was also sick, and doctors told him not to do it, but he said f-u and gave us the single best performance of all time.

I was there, in 1982 with seven friends. We took an early train to London from Brighton and stood in a huge queue outside Wembley Stadium. Everyone was hyped, we all knew it was going to be a big day. The atmosphere was jumped. Someone would start singing, and we all joined in. No Woman No Cry, I remember us all singing that. We got in and made a beeeline for front of stage, we ended up just in front of the big camera mount you can see in all the videos. It was a good spot. There were toilets at the back. That was about 8am. We waited for hours, and we sang more songs together because we had nothing else to do. We'd drunk all our beers in expectation, and then Charles and Diana finally appeared and it all kicked off. Status Quo with Rocking All over The World, and we went all in, finally, even though we couldn't hear the vocals. It didn't matter. They were good. They did their stuff. They got us going. Then it was all sorts of stuff I don't really remember, although Spandau Ballet were great and every band got us singing, because we wanted to sing anyway. Then there was a bit of a lull. I don't remember exactly, but there were a couple bands or whatever where we just all kind of deflated a bit. Not their fault, it was just time for a rest I guess. Or something. Anyway what happened was two vaguely famous idiots came on stage dressed as policemen and we didn't really hear what they said until they introduced Queen. We all roared. And I'll tell you why. Queen hadn't done anything the past few years but we all knew their songs. They weren't on the band list either, we didn't know they were going to be there. We'd had our rest, we were ready for more. And suddenly, there was Freddie on stage. Queen arrived, and owned us all from the first piano chord. And we went absolutely bonkers, all 90,000 of us. I'm a man of words, but I cannot describe to you what happened that day. Just that what you have seen, was a tiny part of what happened in that enormous stadium when Freddie owned the world for those 25 iconic minutes. I was there with seven friends, three of whom have now passed away. But that was a time and place the rest of us all still live in. Just, the day we were there.

This one 22 minute performance will stand forever as the greatest concert in rock history

I’m a firm believer there will never be another preformer like Freddie, he was 100% one of a kind and God rest his soul❤️

No cell phones, Just everyone in Unison, This is Humanity at it's Finest. They stole the show, Live Aid, the World. All Hail Queen 🙏❤

Thank you showing this and your emotional response. Now imagine being 14 years old dancing and singing in front of your television, celebrating your heroes together with 1.5 billion people around the world…. Still sends me shivers only remembering the feeling.❤

Freddie Mercury... A man who died young and lived forever!

This is widely regarded as the best live performance ever. Freddie Mercury could always hold the entire audience in the palm of his hand.

The greatest showman to ever live. Rest in peace Freddie, you're still rocking heaven.

RIP Freddie Mercury You are the Greatest of all time and you will never be forgotten. We miss you so much.

72.000 people stadium, 90.000 estimated ... but most of all: 1.5 billion (billion, not million) watching live around the globe.

I'm not particularly a Queen fan, but I still think Freddie was the greatest, the most charismatic front man ever.

The ultimate showman that backed it up without fail every time. There will never be another, Freddie, his legacy will live on forever.

I am a 63 year old guy from London and have had the good fortune of seeing Queen 5 times,the best live band along with Pink Floyd ,love your reaction and how emotional it made you.x

"And what instrument are you playing?" Freddie: "I'll play the audience, darling." Keep in mind, this is NOT solely a Queen concert. These people paid to see a great many bands that was the reception and reaction Queen got from the crowd. They absolutely stole the show. Freddie knew the stakes (as did the rest of the group) with literal billions of people watching onsite and remotely around the world, so they put in the rehearsal time to be perfect. They say on that day for 20 minutes, England had a different Queen.

Freddie had a bad throat that day and was told not to perform by the doctors so that makes his vocal performance even more remarkable.

Stacey, your emotions reflect how every Queen fan in the world feels when they see this. The timing of the performance that day, the occasion and it's importance, the fact that Freddie Mercury was beginning his downward spiral of health and still managed to conduct that crowd like an orchestra with an energy and charisma that hasn't been matched since. That day the music mattered more than anytime in history and Queen were at the centre of it all. Also, people like yourself are vital in carrying the torch for this wonderful performance and for Freddie himself. New generations of fans must never let this moment be forgotten.

More than a billion people watched this performance around the globe. This size of audience is never likely to be repeated since the sad and untimely death of our old friend, live TV. In the old days, entire national populations would sit in their respective living rooms, all at the same time, staring at a glass-fronted wooden box, while periodically glancing at their watches, waiting for a show, concert or some other form of entertainment to start. Now that there are thousands of sources of entertainment to choose from, that global attention is spread far too thinly for something like Live Aid to occur ever again. It's sad, but time to embrace the present. There's no point in harking back to the past like a sad old git. Thanks for your heartfelt reaction, from me, a sad old git.