WEBVTT - Remembering Live Aid 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:03.560 Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of five 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:12.559 Heart Radios How Stuff Works. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.360 I'm Josh Clark, and there's Charles w Chuck Bryant, and 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:17.880 there's Jerry over there, and this is Stuff you Know 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:22.880 and nice, I think we should say what just happened 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:29.000 off Mike because as Jerry does once every three hundred episodes, 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:34.320 she realizes what we're recording on and has an actual 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:37.519 comment about it, right, and this is about Live Aid, 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:40.600 And she went, I was in London when Live Aid happened, 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:44.519 And Josh said, did you go? Jerry said, no, I 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:48.519 didn't know what was happening because we forget in there 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:51.440 wasn't an internet blast like Live Aid was a big deal. 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:54.400 But little Jerry, a little twelve year old Jerry in London, 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:57.080 doesn't know what's going on. To get any info, you 0:00:57.120 --> 0:00:58.720 have to go down to the corner and look at 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.440 the telephone poll and see what somebody's staple there, yeah, 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:04.080 or go to hear the town crier on his uh 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:09.000 soapbox in the park Hyde Park. So it was a 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:13.040 very anticlimactic story because it led to nothing. But like anyway, 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:17.200 I was there, I was twelve yeah, I had no 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:21.480 controller agency over my life. Probably true. But Jerry, had 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.080 you been just three years older, you might have been 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:27.680 pulled up on stage with Bono to dance to dance 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:31.240 to dancing um in the dark. No, that was Bruce Springsteen. 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:33.920 He did not play Live Aid. Did you know? It 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.520 was Courtney Cox? All right? Sure it was not real. 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:40.920 It was set up. She was an actor. Stills. I 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:43.880 thought it was just coincidence. But yeah. One of the 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:46.760 most famous moments of Live Aid was when Bono and 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:49.360 We'll get there. But I watched it again today, Man, 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:51.720 I got a little teary, did you It was such 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.920 a great moment. Oh, I just wanted to be like Bonno, stop, No, 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:57.600 that's what everyone in the band was doing. I'm sure 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:01.640 it was like edge. You could ed still had hair before. 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:04.520 He just started wearing beanies all the time. And they 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:06.560 were playing the great song Bad and they did like 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:10.280 a seventeen minute version of their like twenty two minutes set. 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:13.480 Because Bono wanted to dance with a girl, and he 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:18.919 finally jumped down onto the floor of Wimbley Stadium got 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.080 this young fifteen year old girl dance with her for 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:24.320 like fifteen seconds, took another five minutes to get back 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.360 to the stage, because that's how long it takes to 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:30.200 get back up on stage. Starts crossing his face as 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.440 he realized what's going on and edges up there, and 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:37.520 Adam Clayton has his big white afro, and uh, Larry 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:42.000 Mullin still looked identical as he always has. And yeah, 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.359 and they just played that same riff from Bad over 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:45.960 and over and over, and they were a little mad 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:48.480 because he only got to do two songs. They were 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:51.600 gonna close with Pride in the Name of Love, which 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:54.040 everybody like wanted to hear. Sure, it was a big hit, 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:55.320 you know, they were a young band at the time, 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:59.200 but it was on and the band was a little miffed. 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.040 But in as it turns out, that became one of 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:06.240 the iconic moments of live aid and it really launched 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:11.600 YouTube into the stratosphere, which I mean, Bonno looked out 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:14.880 on that one because I imagine backstage right after that 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:18.240 set was not a pleasant place. Dude, what it's not 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:21.320 about you? Yeah, what are you doing? But it was 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.200 a nice moment, he said, I really wanted to dance 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:25.240 with that fifteen year old girl. I know. It was 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:29.320 very sweet. Her name is cal Collique, and she says 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:32.000 that she was getting kind of smushed and that that 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:35.520 kind of helped her out with security, like pulling her 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.120 by her hair over the barrier. Yeah, it doesn't look 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:40.760 very comfortable. It was rough. I should probably say at 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:43.360 this point, or we should a lot of the stuff 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.560 we're talking about you can go see. Yeah. I was 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.200 actually when I was researching this, I was like, what 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.000 a time to be allowed? Man? I was just pouring 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.920 through these videos. Yeah, you can just go watch. Most 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:55.200 of the stuff we're talking about is out there on YouTube. 0:03:55.240 --> 0:04:00.880 So if if you ever just go what pause to YouTube? 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.880 Why o you two ub dot com type in L 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:06.280 I V E dash A I D. Yeah, you don't 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.200 even need the dash. Their their algorithm is that smart. 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:11.760 They don't know what you're talking about, and um start 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:15.000 watching videos. Yeah, I watched a bunch. We should just 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:16.680 talk about some of the ones through the episode that 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.840 we watched. The last thing I watched before we got 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:23.080 up to record was Sabbath. I didn't watch that one, 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:26.159 the Sabbath reunion. Uh. And we'll also say this was 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:32.240 so when you think man Zeppelin reunion, Sabbath Reunion, what 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:36.560 that really means is like chubby, big haired AUSI and 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:41.800 like Robert Plant wearing like electric blue pants. He was 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:45.320 just like Slater from Saved by the Bell. Yeah, it's 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:49.040 a big fat eighties reminder, Like, oh right, that's what 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:53.240 people look like. Even John Deacon from Queen had like 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:58.960 a big puffy, pleaded outfit. Was like they had the 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:04.280 eighties flag. But I was fourteen, and I think I've 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:07.240 told this story before, but I was babysitting. I had 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:10.120 an every day summer babysitting gig as a fourteen year 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:14.719 old babysitting these two kids that were like seventeen and nineteen. Yeah, 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.600 they were pretty close to my age looking back, they 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:22.480 were probably like eight and nine or something close. So 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:24.520 I was sort of like paid to go there and 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:25.920 kind of hang out with them and make sure they 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.800 didn't get in trouble. It wasn't like babysitting babysitting, But 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:32.080 I remember I watched virtually all of the Live Aid 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:36.040 telecast on MTV and was just stuck to it all 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:40.160 day long. I was I was nine. Yeah, uh, and 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:43.240 we were in London, but I didn't count. But you 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:47.320 and Jerry were in Hyde Park hanging out She's like, 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:49.880 there's this annoying nine year old just following me around 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:54.919 talking about podcasts. Says he's from the future, something about 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:59.320 a way back machine. Um. So yeah, thanks to Julia Layton, 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.280 who we have uh doing some writing for us now. 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.159 Dr Late's from back in the old day. She's great 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:08.360 and writes great stuff. And I threw Live Aid out 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:09.960 there because I thought it'd be good to learn a 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:12.200 little bit more about it. It was a good idea. Thanks. 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:15.960 So let's talk about the origins of this, Yes, because 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:24.400 Live Aid happened on July and um, the whole thing started. 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:28.240 The seed was planted about six months before, well a 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.599 little more than six months before, but not much more 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:34.680 than that, when either the BBC or the CBC, depending 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:39.360 on who you asked, ran a series of documentaries about 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:43.520 a drought and famine that was going on in Ethiopia 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.880 at the time. And apparently no one knew about this, 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.600 No one was reporting on it, It wasn't talked about. 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:52.760 And today it's hard to imagine that with our news cycle, 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.080 but it was different back then, right, but even still, 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:58.160 like you know, we we we became so indoctrinated from 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:02.160 that point on, and the idea of famine in Ethiopia. 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:05.440 UM that that it's hard to think of, you know, 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:08.240 not connecting the two. But no one knew about it, 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:10.720 and no one knew about it until I should say 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:15.360 that the CBC or BBC documentary series UM was aired 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:19.920 and it was powerful. There was a very famously a 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.840 young girl, UM, let me see if I can find 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:27.640 her name? Who was She looked like she was on 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:31.240 the verge of death. Her head just kind of lulling around. 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:36.040 She's skeletal, um and she she looks like at the 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:39.080 camera at one point and became kind of the face 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:43.880 of starving children in Ethiopia. Like really drove home, um, 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:47.480 what what was going on there. Her name was beer 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.720 Hahn will Do and she's grown now and is an 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:54.880 ambassador kind of like I don't think she's an official Inbastador, 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.840 she's kind of an unofficial ambassador for poverty, combating poverty 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:02.600 and hunger. Well she I bet she knows. I'm guaranteed 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:06.800 she does. But but she really kind of drove home 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.760 what was going on to viewers, including a guy from 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:14.560 Ireland named Bob Geldof Yeah, who Julia refers to as 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:18.800 a b list Irish rocker. It's probably pretty accurate. The 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:23.280 Boomtown Rats were a medium big band at best. Uh. 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:25.840 He Also, if you're a Pink Floyd fan, uh, he 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:30.440 played Pink in the movie The Wall. Yeah. I think 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:33.640 you told me this every time, Bob Gelk we talked 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:36.800 about this before. Obviously there was no Pink in real life, 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:38.360 but in the movie that was a character named Pink 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:43.040 by the way, which one's pink right exactly. Um So, Geldof, 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:45.360 they had that great song. Uh, I don't know why 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.160 I don't like one day's Pink Floyd did. That was 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.520 the Motown Rats, my friend. Yeah, that we got that 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.560 one plenty wrong. That was their big hit though. That 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.160 was Geldof's big hit, which again I thought was an 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.079 Elvis Costello song until I explained it to me. That's 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:03.079 we definitely we've talked about that, right, So, um man, 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:04.760 I wonder if twenty years so we're going to be 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:08.680 like remember when we Yeah, yeah, it's already happened to Chuck, 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.440 but we don't sound like Abe Simpson quite yet. So 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:16.520 Geldof saw this, really spoke to him, and he said, 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:18.679 here's what we're gonna do. I want to put together 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.960 a fundraiser. And this is not Live Aid yet. No, 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:25.959 this is band Aid right, previous to Live Aid. Uh. 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.280 They did the song that we some of us all 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.720 still love it around Christmas times. A good song, some 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.439 of us hate it? Who does? Do they know? It's Christmas? 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.200 Who hates that song? I think some people hate all 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:40.320 Christmas music? Yeah, you know, or or the very least 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.319 gets sick of certain songs. I can see that. Yeah, 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:46.520 but that one is okay. Let me put it this way. 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.040 I have never gotten sick of that one yet to 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:52.720 this day. No, I agree, um bono of course. Boy 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:56.520 George Bowie Banana Rama, Duran Duran, Wham you two Sting, 0:09:56.640 --> 0:10:00.120 Phil Collins, you name it. Uh. They were sign on 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.720 that song and it benefited Ethiopian famine relief. That's what 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.680 got the ball rolling. Yeah, and again this was Bob 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:10.720 Geldof saw this documentary and started calling up everybody he knew, 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.920 pulling all these strings and put this together. And everyone 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.920 was going, how did Geldoff get my number? Exac list 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:22.160 Cyrus Rocker? Right? He he got this single produced and 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:26.520 released by December. He saw the documentary in October, So 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:28.200 that kind of gives you a hint. Of the kind 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.240 of dude Bob Geldolf was. He gets things done. He lied, 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.920 he bluffed, he didn't take no for an answer. He 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.400 got things done, sure, but to him, it was always 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:41.280 for the greatest, greater good. The there was a the 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:47.000 ends definitely justified the means, especially if it manipulating spoiled rockers. Yeah, 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.720 and we'll get to someone more some more of that later, 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:53.040 he for sure did. Uh. That song itself though, by 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:55.800 itself raise more than ten million bucks, and they have 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.240 over the years done a few different versions. It seems 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:01.000 like they updated every now and then with with new 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:07.800 whoever's the hot British rockers are at the time? Ed Sheeran, right, 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:10.360 he he was in the two thousand and fourteen version. 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:15.760 So was one direction. Okay, Um, they're the group, right, yeah, Okay, 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:19.200 they're a supergroup. Oh uh and then uh, well, I 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:21.840 don't know if that's actually accurate or not, but then seal, 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:24.640 you know, supergroup doesn't just mean they're super that means 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:29.720 right now, that's why I correct. Uh, And then uh 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.839 shenand O'Connor, she was on it two on the New 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:35.040 York Ones. The two fourteen version of Do They Know? 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:39.760 It was Christmas. Um So a month after that, Harry 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:44.079 Belafonte got together with a producer named Ken Kragan or Craigan, 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.240 and they said, well, we need to do our own 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:49.400 version over here in the US because we're looking pretty 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.560 bad geld Off as a B list Irish rocker and 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:56.520 he's getting all the limelight. I'm Harry Belafonte, right, So 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:00.439 he gets together and they um, this is where and 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:02.719 this is something I never knew The song We Are 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:05.040 the World, of course, is what we're talking about. I 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:07.960 always heard USA for Africa. I always thought it was 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:11.440 United States of America. That's what they wanted you to think. 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.040 I never knew that it stood for United Support of 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:18.120 Artists for Africa until today or yesterday. Well there you 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:20.960 how about that. I think it's a great thing that 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:24.439 they surreptitiously slipped that in. And that song was um 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.000 you know. Quincy Jones famously worked on it. It was written. 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:30.120 It was supposed to be written by Lionel Richie, Michael 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:34.599 Jackson and Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder was too wanted to 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:36.240 work on it, but it was a little too busy 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.760 to get involved in the writing at the time, so 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:42.080 it fell the line on Richie and Michael Jackson, and apparently, 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:45.400 if you believe LaToya Jackson, it was mostly Michael who 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.040 put that song together. I don't know about that, man, 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.920 because Lionel Richie's a pretty stand up dude from everything 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.360 I've ever heard. Well, I don't think he's made some 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:57.040 claim like I wrote half fifty of that song. Uh. 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.480 He was apparently pretty blown away because Michael Jackson, like 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.080 after he'd left, went ahead and like cut a demo 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.800 and brought it back and he was like, oh, well 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:11.679 that's impressive and exclusionary, right yeah, yeah, yeah, good ideas. Okay, 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.000 go go home. It's like he literally waited till I 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:18.040 walked out the door to hit record. Uh. I'd like 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:21.520 to see Linel Richie. I just looked up his he 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:23.440 played somewhere and I was like, what's he playing these days? 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:25.000 I looked up his set list. Is he coming to 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:27.200 chest thing anytimes? I don't know, man, but the set 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:30.880 list is amazing. I'm like every single song because he's 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:34.120 doing Commodore stuff, he's doing his own stuff. It's really 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:36.480 it seems like a fun show. A little bit of 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:42.760 deep purple. Oh sure, um, do we take a break already. No, 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:44.560 we haven't, Chuck, and I think it's high time that 0:13:44.640 --> 0:14:09.560 we did. All right, let's do it. So where we 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:13.079 left off Charles was, I guess probably by this time 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:18.120 about January in USA for Africa, which does not stand 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:21.600 for USA like you think released We Are the World 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:24.880 because they were inspired by because you know, it's Christmas 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:30.040 at all. And apparently boy George had an idea of 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.280 going bigger and said to Geldof, look, mate, you did 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.320 pretty good. You raised ten million dollars. You inspired USA 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.280 for Africa, which raised like forty four million dollars within 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:42.240 a year. But you can do more. What if you 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:45.520 put on like the biggest concert ever? Maybe you should 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:49.120 do that. Boy George out vanishing a puff of smoke 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:53.680 like he does. I'd like to see boy George too. 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:55.560 I bet that's a fun show. You and I saw 0:14:55.640 --> 0:15:00.240 Culture Club. They were good, how long like the last 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.440 few years? I guess, yeah, like the last two years. 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:06.080 It was at the original dudes, yes, as far as 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:08.760 you know, as far as I know. Yeah, And I 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:12.080 actually learned at that show that we are never to 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:15.440 let on that we're tired, because this is the penultimate 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:18.240 show of the tour and boy George kept talking about 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:22.800 it to the guitars about one more show after this, 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.560 and it's not a good looks I still have boy George, 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:27.560 but yes, it does not come off very well to 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.120 the audience. Well, I'm not tired. I feel great. That's 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:32.520 because we do two shows back to back once a quarter. 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:36.840 Oh you mean live live, Sure, we can talk about 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:41.760 anything here. It's the live stuff. Uh. I want to 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.400 go see Adam and the Ants too. I've been checking 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.160 out their touring again around. I don't know. I mean 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:48.800 it's Adam Ant for sure. I don't know if it's 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.880 any of the original ants. Would you know the difference? No, 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.560 but he's doing great too. Sure. So I got like 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:58.160 seeing these people coming back around healthy and like the 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:00.720 eighties did not kill them. Oh, they're really taking a 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:05.040 lot of dietary souff, a lot of botanicals. So, like 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:09.000 you said, uh, from the point where uh do they 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:12.080 know it's Christmas? In the in the Famine documentary started 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:15.120 rolling out. It was not very long after that they 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:19.640 managed to pull off a concert in London and Philadelphia, 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:23.280 transmitted by thirteen satellites to a hundred and sixty countries, 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:29.200 to an audience that was twenty five of the world's population. 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:33.240 I saw at one point that they announced that of 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:37.000 the world's televisions were tuned in at some point that broadcast. 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:41.720 That's amazing, It is amazing, and that's amazing today. It 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:47.360 was spectacular in Yeah, and by comparison, the Summer Olympics 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:53.160 the year before was only broadcast to sixty seven countries. Yeah, 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:56.840 ninety ninety, sorry, sixty seven countries, and live aid was 0:16:56.880 --> 0:17:01.560 a hundred and sixty. So just we cannot overestimate how 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.000 huge of a deal this was, right, and it just 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.159 really kind of show off but also to kind of 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:10.400 buying the Western world together. It was held, like you said, 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:13.960 at two places at once, in London and in Philadelphia, 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:17.840 and there were there were concerts going on constantly in 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:21.240 both places. In the show, what you would see on TV, 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.919 what you watched in your babysitting would just kind of 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.320 switched back and forth depending on who had the bigger 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:28.720 act at the time. These days you could probably do 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:30.760 a split screen or they would just show both in 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:33.640 on two channels. Yeah, But the fact that they were 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:38.040 doing it at a time when, as Julia Layton puts it, 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:41.400 you know, during a time of cassette tapes and cathode 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:45.880 ray tube TVs. It's just really impressive that they that 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:48.960 Bob Geldoff managed to put it together and help pull 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:52.560 it off with very little problem. Yeah, it was in 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:56.119 just a few months to sixteen hours total for both 0:17:56.240 --> 0:18:01.120 of the shows. Uh, they overlapped by about ten hours. Um. 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:05.200 And then there are also various satellite concerts going on 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:08.239 all over the world. Um with now you know, they 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:12.200 didn't have like sixty performers, but you know, smaller shows 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:15.000 kind of stage in conjunction. Yeah. Like I got the 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:18.159 impression that people who had already booked their tours and 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:20.159 were locked into a tour date but still wanted to 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:25.159 take part showing. Yeah, like Selene Dion, like doing a 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:29.119 number from Las Vegas on on New Year's Eve or something. 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:33.600 So it all kicked off at twelve noon London time, 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:38.720 seven am in the US. Um, the Coldstream Guards played 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:41.959 God Save the Queen. Charles and Diana came out on stage. 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:44.119 I know that that makes it pretty cool. It is 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:47.480 pretty cool. Did Diana park? Yeah, of course, what no 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:50.560 love for Charles? I mean sure, but he's still around. 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:53.400 He's not a live aid type, you know what. I mean, 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:56.920 I think he irons his jeans. I don't think he 0:18:57.000 --> 0:19:03.040 wears jeans right, Um, you know why because he doesn't iron. Yeah, 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:05.320 he could probably find somebody to iron for him if 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:07.960 he wanted to. So they take the stage of Whimley. 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:11.040 They inaugurate Live Aid and then wait, hold on, was 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:13.240 that a joker? A reference that just went over my head? 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:17.639 What thing? Yeah? Okay, because I'm getting like intel and 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:20.040 feedback from listeners once awhile who right in was like 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:22.320 that was a hilarious reference. Chuck me, that went right 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.720 over Josh's head. I hate that really. Yes, you can't 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.720 get all the references. I want to get all the references. 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:32.800 So do this from no one. Okay, Josh is blinking 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:37.880 at me. Everyone, So to kick it off in anti dramatic, 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:42.000 climactic fashion. That's that's not very cool to say. The 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:44.720 bands status Quo was the first band. They were big 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:49.880 in England. I guess they were, but they were legendary. 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:52.760 I think their first hit single was in and this 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:55.840 is They've been around the place, and dude, they got 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:58.720 it off. Like if you watch Status Quo covering John 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:00.960 Fogerty's Rocking all over the World Old, which I did, 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:04.600 like the stadium is bouncing with energy. So they were 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:07.240 clearly popular over there. They were just never big in 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:09.920 the States. But they still did a fine job. No, 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:13.280 it was fine, an adequate work. Been like way to 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:16.560 kick off live, that's right? Uh? And who kicked it 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:19.800 off in the US? Josh Uh? It was Joan Bayes, 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:22.359 why not right? Who came out and was like, this 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:26.200 is your wood stocks long overdue? And they went who 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:29.760 are you? And she sang an acapella version of Amazing Grace, 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:36.520 kind of clumsily, leading the audience by singing very quickly 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:39.840 the next line and then singing that same line in 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:43.159 the American Amazing Grace melody. That really is clunky. It 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:45.920 was slightly clunky. Yeah, but you know it's a good 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:48.840 way to start the show. Sure it was amazing Grace 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:54.159 status quo and Joan Bayez clunkily singing amazing Grace. It 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:57.159 got better from there, basically, well it did. There were 0:20:57.200 --> 0:21:00.760 seventy as. Every act had twenty minutes with was more 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:02.760 or less how long they played. A few bands went 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:05.560 over by a few minutes. But it's not if you've 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:08.159 ever done a festival or something, it's like it's not 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:11.639 cool too to just be like, we'll do one more tune. 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:15.840 That's just not something you do. I've never played a festival, 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:19.760 but I can imagine now we've done festival stuff when 0:21:20.640 --> 0:21:22.840 we do sketch Fest every year. Oh yeah, that's right. 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:25.960 You did Outside Lands by yourself. Sure, but I didn't 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:28.119 have the impression. Oh yeah, they did kind of hustle 0:21:28.200 --> 0:21:30.480 me out of there. I was like, what else you 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:31.919 got in the green room and they're like, just go 0:21:32.720 --> 0:21:34.440 you're right, okay, all right, I got you. I thought 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:35.639 you were like at the end of your end of 0:21:35.680 --> 0:21:37.800 the World thing, you were like, hey, anyone want to 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:43.520 hear something about like get them off um Phil Collins. 0:21:43.600 --> 0:21:46.520 And this was a very big deal and a total 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:49.960 publicity stunt, but it worked. He and I think we 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:53.959 mentioned this in the Concord episode. He played both continents 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:56.000 and they had a film crew following me around. They 0:21:56.000 --> 0:21:57.840 would cut to every once in a while, like Phil 0:21:57.880 --> 0:22:00.719 Collins on the plane or hustling through an airport. There 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:05.120 is no better singer than or now to have done this. 0:22:05.400 --> 0:22:08.760 Maybe probably right, maybe James Cordon would have would be 0:22:08.800 --> 0:22:12.480 the go to person, but this is Phil Collins. Yeah yeah, 0:22:13.080 --> 0:22:15.760 I mean, like, no cynicism, no rock star, and he 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:18.480 was kind of goofy and fun that guy. I think 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:21.600 you're totally right. He's playing again too, which is great news. 0:22:22.160 --> 0:22:24.280 I didn't know that, yeah, because he he wasn't able 0:22:24.280 --> 0:22:26.160 to play drums for a while and he's he's back 0:22:26.160 --> 0:22:29.280 at it. What happened he I can't remember exactly what 0:22:29.280 --> 0:22:32.760 it is, but he had some illness. Uh, I can't 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:36.000 remember exactly what, but where he like wasn't performing and 0:22:36.000 --> 0:22:38.520 didn't think he would again. Oh boy, Yeah, So it's 0:22:38.560 --> 0:22:40.600 kind of cool he's back out there again. He's great. 0:22:40.600 --> 0:22:45.440 SU studio ended up. That's awesome because of the twenty 0:22:45.440 --> 0:22:48.120 minutes sets. Some bands got you know, like you two 0:22:48.119 --> 0:22:52.560 only got into songs um generally it was about three. 0:22:52.720 --> 0:22:55.600