UNCONVENTIONAL WORLD RECORDS

Queen, and in particular Freddie Mercury’s finest hour was on 13th July 1985, during the Live Aid concert at Wembley Stadium, London, in front of 72,000 people (some say 80,000).

Live Aid is, until now still the world’s largest televised pop concert. Queen were onstage for 20 minutes, and were generally considered to have stolen the show. Live Aid was shown to 170 countries, and seen by 1.5 billion people.

Mercury’s performance, and Queen’s set has been described as “the greatest gig in the history of rock”.

I think that is rightly so, because he singlehandedly managed to get ALL 72,000, right to the last person at the back of the stadium, to sing along, to clap hands, to sway in unison to “We Will Rock You” and “We Are the Champions”

Queen performed 5 songs:

- “Bohemian Rhapsody” (partial only. Why? Because no tape playbacks or
soundchecks were allowed, to save time)
- “Radio Ga Ga” (in which Freddie got the ENTIRE stadium to clap in
unison to the chorus)
- “Hammer to Fall”, (during which he danced with a cameraman)
- “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”,
- “We Will Rock You” (partial) (in which Freddie got the ENTIRE stadium to sing along, word-for-word)
- “We Are the Champions” (in which Freddie got the ENTIRE stadium to sing along, word-for-word)

At any gig, no matter how small, it will usually impossible to get every member of the audience to do this.

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