Queen’s iconic set at the 1985 Live Aid charity concert is now part of music history, but band members Brian May and Roger Taylor have revealed that it nearly didn’t take place.
In an interview with the U.K.’s Radio Times, the two musicians shared that when Live Aid organizer Bob Geldof first reached out, the band, and especially frontman Freddie Mercury, weren’t particularly enthusiastic about the idea.
“We weren’t touring or playing, and it seemed like a crazy idea, this talk of having 50 bands on the same bill,” guitarist May said in the interview published Tuesday.
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