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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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❤️

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.

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

A thing to note is that the crowd are not specifically Queen fans. They are here to see a variety of bands - and yet- he still has them ALL in the palm of his hands!

Several amazing things about this performance...over 72 thousand in attendance at Wembley Stadium in London, Freddie had a throat infection, and was advised to cancel, and the best part was that when Queen left the stage, the following act was David Bowie who said to Freddie, "You want me to follow THAT ?"

Lady Ga Ga, took her name from Radio Ga Ga !

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.

July 1985. Live Aid, Two billion viewers worldwide. I was one of them. In the U.S. Air Force, just returned from a year in Turkey, stationed just outside of Boston. I was in a Goodyear service center lobby, waiting for Chrome rims and white lettered tires to be installed. Lobby had a dozen customers. Live Aid on a small over the air TV. Queen was announced. Manager yells out to the 10 or so mechanics. All work stopped. Customers, employees we all huddled around the TV and sang to every song. Will never forget that 20 minutes.

Remember no cameras or people taking videos. Everyone in the crowd just enjoying themselves.

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

This is the most heartfelt reaction to this performance I have ever seen. It is considered to be the best 20 minutes in rock n roll history. Amazing performance. Remember it like it was yesterday.

It was a magical day. It was July, and the weather in London had been dreadful in the morning. Then the clouds parted and the rain went away. I was 26, living in Edinburgh, Scotland and it seemed the whole world halted whatever was going on just to make this concert happen. We actually believed we could change the world. I think that's what gives this performance such a poignant feel for some of us. Freddie was such a charismatic and powerful human being, and we were so unfairly deprived of the good he would have done.

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.