Originally Posted by eweissenbach (Post 1597652)

If you are a fan of Queen and Freddie Mercury you will love this show. If you are not, God help you!

Originally Posted by John_W (Post 1599563)

You're right, they weren't the biggest thing at Live Aid. I guess Plant & Page was, but their performance I think was lacking. Mick Jagger and Tina Turner was also highly acclaimed, but I found boring. After I recorded the show I remember re-watching David Bowie and the Queen performances the most. I even became a van of Ultravox, in fact most of the performances in the UK were superior to those at Philadelphia.

The MTV VJ's also hammed it up quite a bit trying to interject themselves whenever, or Chevy Chase or some celeb walking on. Personally I enjoyed that concert a lot, but the Wembley performances were tops and Philly was just not the same. I've seen Journey with Steve Perry, Styx twice in their heyday, Pink Floyd, Grand Funk, Def Leppard, Scorpions, Bon Jovi, Uriah Heep, Kansas, Foreigner, etc, etc, and none of them are like Queen. Like I said, my biggest regret was the Queen concert in St. Petersburg in 1975 being cancelled just as I was getting ready to go.

About the film I'll have to disagree, but then again I was watching for the music, not so much the story. I thought the beginning was great, it laid a foundation for the band. Although I believe Freddie was already in a band when he approached Smile. I was surprised how big a part his wife Mary had in the film, but that's a part of his life that gets omitted. His fake teeth were a bit of a problem, but if you remember in real life, his teeth were big. If anyone wants to hear Queen music performed on screen, see this film. I can remember in high school going to the movies in the 60's and watching films of just bands in concerts. I now have over 35 chapters on youtube of probably 200 videos each of various segments of music, my 75" TV and surround system is almost like being there.

Originally Posted by eweissenbach (Post 1599632)

If you look at pictures of a younger Freddie Mercury you may notice that his overbite looks much more pronounced than his later pictures. I believe there are two reasons for this. 1. as he aged his face filled out as most naturally do, and therefore the teeth become less pronounced as they do not grow. 2. He was self conscious of his appearance and therefore he tended to push out his lower jaw more and smile big less.
Queen was not the biggest recording artist(s) at the time, but they were arguably the biggest concert draw in the world and had the most dedicated fans.

Originally Posted by John_W (Post 1612799)

I believe Paul closed the show in London before they switched totally to Philly and he played piano and sang "Let it Be". I hate to say this, but that is probably my least favorite Beatles song, maybe because it gets played the most. If I remember correctly everybody came back on stage to sing along with the chorus.

I almost forgot U2, they were outstanding at the London show. They were probably the hottest act in 1985, I actually saw them in Jacksonville about that time. So David Bowie, Queen and U2 I remember the best, from the American side, nothing stands out to me.

In America the Cars who we almost never see live, played, as well as the Beach Boys, Hall & Oates and they threw in some 1980's acts like The Thompson Twins and Madona and the VJ's built up the Mick Jagger & Tina Turner duo coming up along with Plant and Page. At the time I thought that was terrible they didn't ask John Paul Jones to come with them. I remember reading that he was never asked and would played, so we would at least have 3/4 of Zeppelin. They played Rock N' Roll which I find to be the least sounding Zeppelin song, it's sort of like a song anybody could play. Whereas The Immigrant Song or something like that would of been great.