Paramore wrapped up a string of support dates with Taylor Swift at London’s Wembley Stadium. During one show, singer Hayley Williams channeled her inner Freddie Mercury in two ways.
To begin with, Williams donned a similar white shirt/light blue jeans look, which Mercury famously wore during Queen’s iconic set at Live Aid.Williams then tried her hand at Mercury’s equally classic “Ayo” vocalizing call-and-response that he did during Live Aid. Due to language, you can watch it here, but afterward, Willaims said out loud, “Oh my f—ing God!”
For fun, and because it never gets old, here’s Mercury’s “Ayo” which then goes into an energetic performance of “Hammer To Fall.”Believe it or not, Queen didn’t realize right away just how iconic their set was. In November 2020, guitarist Brian May told U.K.’s talkRADIO, “It was so strange kind of reliving it for the movie [2018’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’]. They recreated it so incredibly faithfully, and to be there on that set was really spine-chilling; it brought it all back. And at the time, we weren’t aware of what an epoch-making thing it was, really. We came off [thinking], ‘Well, that went kind of okay.’ But we didn’t realize that it had made such a lasting impression on the ether.”
A Brief History of Live Aid in Pop Culture
Live Aid, the day the music changed the world, took place on July 13, 1985 and remains one of the biggest music moments in history.
The legendary benefit show emanated from Wembley Stadium in London and JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. It helped raise more than $125 million for African famine relief efforts and was broadcast live in 110 countries and was watched by over a billion people worldwide.
Live Aid was such a massive cultural moment that it is the subject of a stage musical, Just For One Day, which ran at the Old Vic Theatre in London’s West End from January 26 to March 30. Deadline reported in October 2023 that Live Aid organizer Bob Geldof was attached to the production.
Director Luke Sheppard helmed Just For One Day, with John O’Farrell writing the book. The premise of the show revolves around the people that helped make Live Aid happen. Sheppard told Deadline that Just For One Day looks at Live Aid “from all angles, including from the technicians who are trying to pull off this satellite broadcast to the first-aid worker who was running the first-aid tent.”
Of course, Geldof is a character in the show. Sheppard noted of the Geldof character, ” … The character who embodies Bob on stage has found within him, I think, a similar kind of fiery spirit and a similar kind of attitude on that stage. So when you watch the show, Bob, he’s instantly recognizable.”Erica Banas is a news blogger who’s been covering the rock/classic rock world since 2014. The coolest event she’s ever covered in person was the 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. (Sir Paul McCartney inducting Foo Fighters? C’mon now!) She’s also well-versed in etiquette and extraordinarily nice. #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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