Bohemian Rhapsody has been the hit of 2018 cinema, depicting Freddie Mercury with his band tat the the Queen in a very much realistic drama format.
The most impact-filled punch scene that the movie delivers, undoubtedly, is the twenty minute recreation of the Live Aid 1985 performance, where Freddie Mercury is seen singing for 20 minutes straight with amazing vigor for a man dying of AIDS. The Live Aid concert had initiated from an idea by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, set to raise money for Ethiopian famine relief, with the UK and US joining in for a very historic performance, the former at the Wembley and the latter at the JFK Stadium. The concert have been recorded as one of the most populated performance to date, with Queen’s performance voted as the greatest live performance in the history of rock in 2005.
In a media interview several decades later, the main organizer Bob Geldof admitted this morning on Radio 4’s Today programme that he hasn’t watched Bohemian Rhapsody.
‘I haven’t seen it,’ he admitted on the programme, ‘I went with Brian and Rodger up to the fields, I think in Hampshire, where they’d built Wembley. The set designs were extraordinary. I went back-stage, and that was really, really weird, because that was exactly the same as backstage Wembley.
The detail, walking up the ramp to the stage was the same, so that sensation was very weird.’
When pressed for why he hadn’t watched the film, Geldof strongly advocated for his case. ‘A film about Queen? That’s the perfect opportunity? Lockdown. I watched Godfather One and Two – That’s the perfect time to revisit – do me a favour!’
Geldof also admitted to having not watched the ‘One World: Together At Home’ concert, organised by Lady Gaga, which saw a host of stars perform via video link, which has been called the ‘Lockdown LiveAid’ by many.
‘No, I wasn’t interested. Well done her and everybody for doing it, but I don’t understand the purpose. You know, the pseudo-intimacy of Zoom – There’s no need for us to be Zooming this, it’s just as good on the phone,’ he said, referring to the interview he was doing.
‘The snatches I saw, there was no emotional response from me – Gaga was correct to try and do it. She’s an artist, she felt a responsibility, she got the others to come to the party. And then there had to be a political agenda behind it, which would achieve – what? What was it they wanted?’
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