Thursday, October 29, 2015

Blog Session 7: A photograph you like "Queen live at Live Aid"

I really like this picture and I think it’s one of my favorite ones, because it was taken in maybe the biggest rock music festival ever: “Live Aid” in 1985, and it shows us some moments of the performance of Queen, who is remembered by a lot of music magazines as the greatest rock performance ever. “Live Aid” festival was organized by Bob Geldof (Maybe you know him by his role of “Pink” in the Pink Floyd’s movie “The Wall”) to raise money for Eastern Africa, with the participation of a lot of my favorite artists: Sting, Phil Collins, George Michael, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Boy George and of course Queen. I like this picture because it captures one of the greatest moments of Queen’s career playing to big crowds as they used to (this festival sold 78.000 tickets), one year before they made the “Magic tour” (their final one), and it shows us the power of music, that can gather a lot of people to have fun, relax and in some cases to take awareness of poverty and all the others problems of our world.


9 comments:

  1. My favorite song of Queen is "We are the Champions", and I think that represent me ;)

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    1. Great song!! my favorite one is "Somebody to love"

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  2. AIDS is a very complex syndrome. Freddy Mercury was a big singer, but he died with this disease.
    Greetings my friend, a very good photo and a very very great concert.

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    1. The death of Mercury was really sad :( , but he recorded 3 records with his disease, that is really impressive

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  3. Queen is one of the best bands in the world!

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  4. it must have been amazing to be there! and to know that in some cases music industry don't use artists to generate money for themselves. I hope that the old spirit of music come alive again

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  5. My favorite song by Queen is also Somebody to love, what a tune!!
    Nice picture ;)

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  6. The 70's are the best rock decade.

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