April 26, 2005
Listening to Live Aid DVDs
The day music changed the world? Maybe... I was 14 when Live Aid was broadcast. I havn't had time to listen / watch the DVDs that I got at Christmas until now, but the experience is still amazing. So many performances were simply electric that day. Particularly U2, Queen and many more.
It made me think that we couldn't possibly have anything like this today but I couldn't really put my finger on why exactly, becuase in some ways Live Aid made cause related music and adopting a political position as a musican more acceptable. Perhaps its that there doesn't seem to be the kind of musicans that could pull this kind of 'show' off. Perhaps having been done, its been done and that the populus demands innovation? Even when its political and charitable?
Perhaps it also explains why the UK general election is the most boring I've ever known - has anyone noticed anything interesting said by politicans in the campaign at all? Certainly nothing about International aid and fair trade...
Still if it didn't change the world its musical legacy was something. And it certainly changed Bob Geldorf's career.
(P.S. Ozzie Osbourne was also relatively awake too - he just about remembered the words to Paranoid)
Posted by Paul Goodison at April 26, 2005 02:18 PM | TrackBack