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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n\u201cSunshine and renewed hope!\u201d, Roger Taylor reflects. \u201cThe whole day was one of those stand out wonderful days. A great credit to music, which can move mountains if it has to! It\u2019s beyond politics and politicians!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now you can relive that historic performance exactly as it happened on the night\u2026for Just One Day\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThank you for coming along\u2026and making this a great occasion!\u201d Freddie Mercury<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On July 13, 1985, at 6.41pm, at Wembley Stadium in London, Queen took to the stage as part of Live Aid, the event Sir Bob Geldof and Midge Ure organised to raise funds for the Ethiopian famine disaster. The band performed a medley of some of their greatest hits including \u2018Bohemian Rhapsody\u2019, \u2018Radio Ga Ga\u2019, \u2018Hammer To Fall\u2019, \u2018Crazy Little Thing Called Love\u2019, \u2018We Will Rock You\u2019 and \u2018We Are The Champions\u2019 \u2013 their 21-minute set was witnessed by 72,000 people in the stadium and 1.9 billion across the World and is hailed as one of the greatest live performances ever in the history of rock n\u2019 roll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As part of the 40th anniversary of the Live Aid concert, you can re-live Queen\u2019s historic showpiece for 24 hours on the Queen YouTube Channel, on Sunday, July 13th 2025, from 6.41pm (BST).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Less seen over the years, this Queen YouTube channel Live Aid 40th anniversary special also includes a special bonus of Freddie Mercury and Brian May\u2019s unexpected return to the stage at 9.48pm just prior to the finale to perform the acoustic \u2018The Works\u2019 album track \u2018Is This The World We Created\u2019, the song written by Freddie and Brian after they had watched the news of poverty in Africa, which they deemed appropriate to the message of the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Click here for the Queen YouTube Channel >>> www.youtube.com\/queen<\/p>\n\n\n\n The story of Live Aid is currently being told in the West End musical, Just For One Day >>> https:\/\/theliveaidmusical.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n ***Official Limited Edition Live Aid + Queen Merchandise***<\/p>\n\n\n\n To celebrate 40 years of Live Aid and the live stream of Queen\u2019s set, the Band Aid Trust and The Mercury Phoenix Trust have teamed up to offer limited-edition merchandise in aid of both charities. Two T-shirts and a poster have been specially designed and overseen by the trustees of both charities, including Bob Geldof, Roger Taylor and Brian May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The range is available to pre-order now @ www.queenonlinestore.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n All profits will be split equally between The Band Aid Trust and The Mercury Phoenix Trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAaaaaay-o\u201d. Freddie Mercury It was the biggest musical event the world had seen, the like of which is…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-musician"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/artgardenhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-41.png\")
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