This was the line up for Live Aid, for you who are old enough to remember it, which acts were the best and which were rubbish?

 

TIME…ARTIST..LOCATION

12.00 Fanfare Wembley

12.02 Status Quo Wembley

12.19 The Style Council Wembley

12.44 The Boomtown Rats Wembley

13.00 Adam Ant Wembley

22.06 INXS Melbourne

13.16 Ultravox Wembley

13.34 Loudness Wembley

13.47 Spandau Ballet Wembley

08.51 Bernard Watson JFK

09.02 Joan Baez JFK

14.07 Elvis Costello Wembley

09.10 The Hooters JFK

15.10 Opus Vienna

14.22 Nik Kershaw Wembley

09.32 The Four Tops JFK

13.38 B.B King The Hague

09.35 Billy Ocean JFK

09.52 Ozzy Osbourne JFK

10.12 Run Dmc JFK

15.12 YU Rock Mission Belgrade

14.55 Sade Wembley

15.18 Sting Wembley

10.27 Rick Springfield JFK

15.27 Phil Collins Wembley

15.47 Reo Speedwagon Wembley

15.50 Howard Jones Wembley

18.55 Autograph Moscow

16.07 Bryan Ferry Wembley

11.07 Crosby Stills and Nash JFK

17.24 Udo Lindenberg Cologne

11.26 Judas Priest JFK

16.38 Paul Young Wembley

16.48 Paul Young/Alison Moyet Wembley

17.00 Bob Geldof welcomes America Wembley

12.02 Bryan Adams JFK

17.20 U2 Wembley

12.40 The Beach Boys JFK

18.00 Dire Straits/Sting Wembley

13.26 George Thorogood and the Destroyers/Bo Diddley/Albert Collins JFK

18.44 Queen Wembley

........ Video David Bowie/Mick Jagger JFK/Wembley

14.07 Simply Minds JFK

19.22 David Bowie Wembley

14.41 The Pretenders JFK

20.00 The Who Wembley

15.20 Santanna and Pat Metheny JFK

20.50 Elton John Wembley

15.57 Ashford and Simpson and Teddy Pendergrass JFK

21.05 Elton John and Kiki Dee Wembley

21.09 Elton John,Kiki Dee and Wham! Wembley

16.30 Madonna JFK

21.48 Mercury and May Wembley

21.51 Paul McCartney Wembley

21.54 McCartney,Bowie,Townshend,Moyet and Geldof Wembley

21.56 UK Finale Wembley

17.14 Tom Petty JFK

17.30 Kenny Logins JFK

17.49 The Cars JFK

18.07 Neil Young JFK

18.43 The Power Station JFK

19.21 The Thomson Twins JFK

19.39 Eric Clapton JFK

20.04 Phil Collins JFK

20.13 Plant, Page and Jones JFK

20.47 Duran Duran JFK

21.15 Patti La Belle JFK

21.50 Hall & Oates/Eddie Kendricks/David Ruffin JFK

22.15 Mick Jagger JFK

22.28 Mick Jagger and Tina Turner JFK

22.39 Bob Dylan/Keith Richard/Ron Wood JFK

22.55 US Finale JFK

 

Not that much was good really. U2 were great. Queen and Bowie were also excellent but the worst had to be Dylan with the two Stones. Absolutely dreadful.

Have the DVD, and Queen put on one of the best performances I've ever seen, U2 were also brilliant ,despite Bono ruining it by walking out into the crowd :lol:

 

Can't really say who I think were the worst. Will have to think about it as it's ages since I watched it all.

i didnt really pay that much attention tbh, as i recall i was looking after my baby daughter whilst my then wife was at work...

I watched a lot of the Wembley performances up until 10PM and I taped a lot of it from Radio 1's coverage onto 2 & a half C90 cassettes.

 

Queen were unquestionably the best act on the day.

 

I naturally bought the 4 Live Aid DVD set when released this century and it was a better "global jukebox" than Live 8.

I thought Queen,Bowie and U2 were excellent. Of the rest I remember when Paul McCartney started singing the microphone wasn't working or something and others came on to save the day.

 

There were some poor performances though, Duran Duran- Simon's voice breaking :lol: , The Who were not at their best, Madonna :no: