I Might Not Be As Young As My Mind Tries Hard To Convince Me.

[Kandinskyesque]

On Sunday this concert will have been 40 years ago...

I

40 years before that WW2 was ending and that felt like it occurred a fortnight after the Viking Invasion to my teenage brain.

Live Aid sometimes feels like a few years ago, but I've got grandkids now, one of which will be at high school next year.
I can only conclude that in my head, I'm still a teenager despite the ear and nasal hair providing evidence to the contrary.

As an aside, who else watched it and what acts did you enjoy?

 

[uriah1]

Ya
I think they have a special on that this week.
Is that the same as "we are the world?
Maybe Bowie, Zep w/Collins on drums, Sabbath

I remember the concert for Bangladesh. Not broadcasted.

 

[Engine Swap]

This turns 40 in September. I was there and 21yo. Waylon was here too.

 

[Kandinskyesque]

This turns 40 in September. I was there and 21yo. Waylon was here too.

What a lineup!!!

 

[posttoastie]

Bob Dylann ?

 

[sammy1974]

Bob Dylann ?

Could be a fake.

 

[sammy1974]

In an odd twist of fate, a music pal and I found ourselves close to Wembley in London on that very day.
We'd planned the trip to the UK before we knew about the event. With no access to a TV, no tickets, we became part of the 60% of the world's population that did not see it happening. I've watched recordings since then though.

 

[badinfinities]

13 year old me was so excited to see The Style Council & The Who. I spent the whole day watching it and I think I taped it. Long gone now.

 

[ClashCityTele]

I watched right from the start. By Nik Kershaw (14:20) I was loosing interest. Sade (14:55) boring.
When Phil Collins & Sting appeared, I'd had enough. My Dad & I escaped to a long-gone furniture store called MFI (known as MI5).
As we drove along the street, we could hear Live Aid blasting from the open windows of every house.
Unfortunately, there was no escape. MFI had rigged up TV's from the ceiling so all their customers didn't miss one second of Live Aid.

I'm not sure who I saw after that, but I think I totally missed The Who & U2. The US line-up was much better - Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Simple Minds, Pretenders, Led Zeppelin (all Brits of course!).

 

[notmyusualuserid]

I spent the day in the dojo waving a katana around. Seemed a better way to spend my time.

 

[prairietelecaster]

I don't need a vintage poster, walking by a mirror clues me in.

 

[39martind18]

I don't need a vintage poster, walking by a mirror clues me in.

You'n'me both, brother! My mind may think I'm younger than I am, but I'm continually reminded by my bod that I ain't!

 

[ScottJPatrick]

Had a gig in the Preservation Hall in Edinburgh that night, the (very) few people that turned up were mainly watching the tv although they couldn't actually hear it, as were most of the bar staff because they had nothing else to do.

Did a 24 mile cycle run today with my 13 year old daughter, my mind certainly thinks I'm younger than 64 but I have a feeling that my body might remind me tomorrow morning that I'm not!

 

[telemnemonics]

Ya
I think they have a special on that this week.
Is that the same as "we are the world?
Maybe Bowie, Zep w/Collins on drums, Sabbath

I remember the concert for Bangladesh. Not broadcasted.

Saw something last night just about the same cause recording We Are The World in ‘85.
Long time ago to live from youth to today’s reality.
Both the self aging and the progress of humanity perhaps going more Middle Ages.

Various YouTube’s of the session.
Dylan was scared and Springsteen almost lost his voice, almost everybody was choked up and many screwed up simple takes.

Funny I saw the section where Dylan could not imagine himself singing his part, so Stevie Wonder faked a Dylan version of his line and Dylan copied Stevie’s version of himself.
Not sure it’s in this or where to find that but I saw it last night on Netflix.

 

[telemnemonics]

Dylan was singing in 1965 and then in 1985 had Stevie Wonder teach him to sing then in 2025 he can still “sing”?

Go to 22:22 and catch the lesson part.
Sorry to derail a bit, just watched this.
So damn long ago…

 

[Holy smokes]

Might be one and the same .

 

[Pops_Caster]

Can’t recall what I was doing at the time. Probably working.

 

[brookdalebill]

I love that stuff!
I wonder if anything like those concerts could ever happen again?

 

[tery]

And 40 years ago concerts were affordable.

 

[telemnemonics]

And 40 years ago concerts were affordable.

So was life in general…