Queen — Wembley Stadium (Live Aid), 1985

On 13 July 1985, Queen took the Wembley Stadium stage in London for Live Aid, the charity concert organised by Bob Geldof to fight famine in Ethiopia. In just over twenty minutes, Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon delivered a performance that entered the history of live rock. This filmed concert runs through a stadium-built medley: « Bohemian Rhapsody », « Radio Ga Ga » with its synchronised handclaps, « Hammer to Fall », « Crazy Little Thing Called Love », then « We Will Rock You » and « We Are the Champions » as a finale. Mercury’s improvised vocal call-and-response with the 72,000-strong crowd, the celebrated « Ay-Oh », remains a benchmark moment of stage-and-audience communion. Frequently cited as the greatest live performance of all time, this Queen set at Live Aid 1985 captures the band’s command of the stage at the peak of its career. A full live recording, essential for anyone who loves a filmed concert and 1980s British rock at its most electrifying and generous.