“Live Aid was the perfect stage for Freddie”
May 28, 2019
4 minutes
The 17 minutes Queen spent on stage at Wembley Stadium during their Live Aid performance on July 13, 1985 were 17 minutes which would both make rock history and transform the band for good. Although the band had enjoyed continued success with their platinum-selling eleventh album, February 1984’s The Works, as the mid-80s progressed Freddie Mercury found himself disillusioned and searching for something new.
“We were all forming a sort of a rut,” Mercury said at the time. “I wanted to get out of this last 10 years of what we were doing. It was so routine. It was like, go to the studio, do an album, go out on the road, go round the world and
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