Dear James,
Speaking of Freddie Mercury at Live Aid, here's Freddie Mercury at Live Aid, with his popular backing band, Queen (Ethiopians not pictured). This is song number 3 in the set, Queen having started their 17-minute slot audaciously with Bohemian Rhapsody and followed that up less audaciously with Radio Gaga. They returned later on in the evening, when the crowd had quietened down and people were pensive, and performed "Is This The World We Created" for all the little African children.
Queen-2 have finally got round to releasing the supposedly legendary Live Aid show (best gig of the 80s, you know?) some 23 years after the event, and even then you have to buy their old We Will Rock You DVD, now retitled Live in Montreal so as to avoid confusion with that awful Ben Elton musical, to get the Live Aid DVD. The DVD also includes a 1981 US interview. It is the most excruciatingly boring Queen interview I've ever seen.
Anyway, as a result of all this I was inspired to dig up the old Queen novel idea and combine it with the Ana Young novel and see if something comes out of it. That was two nights ago. The inspiration's started to slip away again. I have to arrest its slide, before the world misses out on reading my thoughts on songs like this:
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