Queen singer Freddie Mercury (left) with guitarist Brian May during the band's performance at Live Aid. - Popperfoto via Getty Images Programming Note: Watch CNN Original Series “Live Aid: When Rock ...

On July 13, 1985, everyone in attendance at Wembley Stadium in London witnessed rock history. Set as two simultaneous performances, one for an audience of 72,000 people at Wembley, and another with 89 ...

More than any artist on the star-studded bill, Queen have come synonymous with Live Aid, the band's short but spectacular six-song set providing the concert's most vivid and long-lasting images and ...

Queen’s legendary 20-minute set at 1985's Live Aid would be the first stop on a time machine for many, many people. It is uncontroversially one of the greatest live performances of all time and has ...

Live Aid was a global phenomenon that took place at the same time, in two separate places, all focusing on helping to raise funds and awareness for famine relief in Ethiopia. Two concerts took place ...

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He had that je ne sais quoi that separates the professional performer from the near-mythical icon (with Mercury being the latter, of course). And he had worked hard to create this larger-than-life ...

Programming Note: Watch CNN Original Series “Live Aid: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took On the World,” celebrating the definitive story of how two rockstars inspired the largest global music events in history.

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(CNN) — British band Queen’s performance at 1985 charity mega concert Live Aid has gone down in the history books, but it almost didn’t happen, according to members Brian May and Roger Taylor.