I have heard stuff about how Geldof basically blackmailed bands such as Queen to get them into Live Aid. But because he is still "Saint Bob" it is hard to speak out in public against him.
With regards to the solos - in the "making of," they showed each soloist singing the verses through. So they seem to have cherry-picked certain lines for each artist. It's fascinating looking back through the lens of time and seeing which singers got full solos and which did not. Also - did ANY woman get a solo line in Do They Know It's Christmas?
I loved it then. It did effectively get people to open their wallets. But now - yeah, yikes.
Did you know there were also covers released in 1989, 2004 and 2014? Sinead O'Connor sang on the 2014 version.
Do you remember the piece I read at Dave's memorial, "When You Hear That I Have Died?" The end of it said "And then, one last thing -- and, beloveds, I know this is the hardest part. I've been where you are, and I know what I ask -- one last thing:
pick up that slip of paper [where you wrote down what you were doing when you heard the news]
and go back to what you were doing
without me."
I also realized recently that I'd completely forgotten about a project I'd undertaken at the beginning of the year and dropped in...April, oh right, that's why. I told a friend and they pointed out that I was picking up that slip of paper. Which, ouch right in the feels, but also yeah, it begins to feel like time. I think they'd be glad to know it took us this long, but also glad to know we're moving on.
I saw this on a videotape my sister sent me while I was on exchange in Mexico that year and I remember just sobbing as I read the whole credits scroll. It really did touch something deep, even in its now-painful awfulness. But also, what an emblem of Gen X--there's a reason we're so reflexively cynical and it's stories like this that created that foundation of suspicion for anything remotely sincere, or sentimental.
I have heard stuff about how Geldof basically blackmailed bands such as Queen to get them into Live Aid. But because he is still "Saint Bob" it is hard to speak out in public against him.
With regards to the solos - in the "making of," they showed each soloist singing the verses through. So they seem to have cherry-picked certain lines for each artist. It's fascinating looking back through the lens of time and seeing which singers got full solos and which did not. Also - did ANY woman get a solo line in Do They Know It's Christmas?
I loved it then. It did effectively get people to open their wallets. But now - yeah, yikes.
Did you know there were also covers released in 1989, 2004 and 2014? Sinead O'Connor sang on the 2014 version.
Do you remember the piece I read at Dave's memorial, "When You Hear That I Have Died?" The end of it said "And then, one last thing -- and, beloveds, I know this is the hardest part. I've been where you are, and I know what I ask -- one last thing:
pick up that slip of paper [where you wrote down what you were doing when you heard the news]
and go back to what you were doing
without me."
I also realized recently that I'd completely forgotten about a project I'd undertaken at the beginning of the year and dropped in...April, oh right, that's why. I told a friend and they pointed out that I was picking up that slip of paper. Which, ouch right in the feels, but also yeah, it begins to feel like time. I think they'd be glad to know it took us this long, but also glad to know we're moving on.
I saw this on a videotape my sister sent me while I was on exchange in Mexico that year and I remember just sobbing as I read the whole credits scroll. It really did touch something deep, even in its now-painful awfulness. But also, what an emblem of Gen X--there's a reason we're so reflexively cynical and it's stories like this that created that foundation of suspicion for anything remotely sincere, or sentimental.