Why Niall is obssessed with Faggy Mercury

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bigboy · #1 Post by **bigboy** » Tue 09 Mar 2004, 2:35 pm

BBC news reports:

Live Aid finally gets DVD release

Some 72,000 fans packed Wembley Stadium in London.

The 1985 Live Aid concert, one of the defining events in modern music, is to be released on DVD for the first time.

Organisers will auction the rights to release the DVD after pirate copies were found for sale on the internet.

They are hoping to raise "a few million pounds" for charity and are aiming for a Christmas release.

The concert, split between London and Philadelphia, brought together stars including U2, Queen and Madonna - but has never come out on CD, video or DVD.

Organisers have decided to allow the DVD release after realising bootleggers were making money from it - but none was going to charity.

Geldof met Prince Charles and Princess Diana at Live Aid.

Proceeds from the DVD release will go to the Band Aid Trust, which still exists to relieve poverty and hunger in Ethiopia and the surrounding area.

Bob Geldof "sees it as an asset of the people of Ethiopia" that was not being fully utilised, according to fellow founding Band Aid trustee John Kennedy.

"It's a surprise to all of us that we're still here 20 years on spending and receiving money," he told BBC News Online.

"But because of piracy, it's becoming available without earning any money."

The successful bidder will have to get the permission of every artist - but "we don't expect any of them to be anything other than co-operative", he said.

Geldof organised Live Aid and the Band Aid single in response to famine in Ethiopia, in which 1.2 million people starved to death in 1984 and 1985.

Music marathon

Live Aid saw 72,000 pack into Wembley Stadium in London to see artists such as David Bowie, Wham! and Dire Straits.

The 16-hour music marathon was completed at Philadelphia's JFK Stadium with acts including Bob Dylan, Duran Duran and Paul Simon.

Live Aid eventually raised £40m. Half of the money was spent on food and half on long term development.

The DVD plan comes after pirated DVDs were found on sale over the internet for £110 for a 10-disc set.

After a tip-off from Geldof himself, police raided a property in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, and arrested a man.

Niall · #2 Post by **Niall** » Tue 09 Mar 2004, 3:26 pm

And we all know who stole the show.

bigboy · #3 Post by **bigboy** » Tue 09 Mar 2004, 3:50 pm

Niall wrote:And we all know who stole the show.

Yes, a bootlegger from Skelmersdale

Niall · #4 Post by **Niall** » Tue 09 Mar 2004, 4:16 pm

we're like the two ronnies.
'cos you know I obviously set you up for that one.

bigboy · #5 Post by **bigboy** » Tue 09 Mar 2004, 4:21 pm

Niall wrote:we're like the two ronnies.

Yes, but less fat (well, me anyway).

I'm obviously Barker and you Corbett

So you weren't talking about Bowie stealing the show with Heroes on the night then?

Niall · #6 Post by **Niall** » Tue 09 Mar 2004, 4:40 pm

bigboy wrote:
Niall wrote:we're like the two ronnies.
Yes, but less fat (well, me anyway).

I'm obviously Barker and you Corbett

So you weren't talking about Bowie stealing the show with Heroes on the night then?

No 'cos he didn't, and the guy who stole the show saw Bowie backstage blowdrying his hair and said to him,"David, that's the only fan you've got"

bigboy · #7 Post by **bigboy** » Tue 09 Mar 2004, 4:59 pm

Niall wrote: the guy who stole the show saw Bowie backstage blowdrying his hair and said to him,"David, that's the only fan you've got"

Mel Smith?

Niall · #8 Post by **Niall** » Tue 09 Mar 2004, 5:03 pm

bigboy wrote:
Niall wrote: the guy who stole the show saw Bowie backstage blowdrying his hair and said to him,"David, that's the only fan you've got"
Mel Smith?

Nil pwa

bigboy · #9 Post by **bigboy** » Tue 09 Mar 2004, 5:20 pm

Gryff Rhys Jones then

dizzy · #10 Post by **dizzy** » Wed 10 Mar 2004, 9:29 pm

Great news for us who wasn't born back then!

bigboy · #11 Post by **bigboy** » Wed 17 Mar 2004, 5:34 pm

You look older

bigboy · #12 Post by **bigboy** » Thu 18 Mar 2004, 10:02 am

Niall wrote:the guy who stole the show saw Bowie backstage blowdrying his hair and said to him,"David, that's the only fan you've got"

Faggy Mercury, I presume?

That would have been slightly hilarious had Bowie not been bigger than ever at that time. Let's not forget that only 18 months before the Let's Dance album was only second to Thriller as the best-seller of 1983, and Bowie scored three UK No.1 albums in a row in the first half of the 80s, something he'd never done in the 70s.

Of course, it was Bowie (with Jagger) who scored the only No.1 single as a direct result of Live Aid. Forget what it was called now.....

Technotrancemix · #13 Post by **Technotrancemix** » Thu 18 Mar 2004, 1:28 pm

bigboy wrote:Of course, it was Bowie (with Jagger) who scored the only No.1 single as a direct result of Live Aid. Forget what it was called now.....

Prancing in the street?

bigboy · #14 Post by **bigboy** » Thu 18 Mar 2004, 1:35 pm

Close.

bigboy · #15 Post by **bigboy** » Sun 21 Mar 2004, 5:59 pm

I wonder if Simon Le Bon will insist he overdubs that infamously embarrassing moment when his voice cracked during a high note on A View To A Kill