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"We thought it was going to be a disaster." Brian May and Roger Taylor look back on Queen's now-legendary performance at Live Aid, and share Bob Geldof's blunt pre-show advice to Freddie Mercury

"The response from the crowd was so deafening, it took your breath away"

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Liam Gallagher apologises for posting anti-Asian slur ahead of Oasis reunion tour

Term used by musician is widely recognised as derogatory imitation of Asian accents

The Independent UK

Post Malone falls off stage while trying to toast fan

‘Why is this man always falling?’ asked confused social media users

The Independent UK

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Live 8 – 20 years on: how the Pink Floyd reunion topped a miraculous line-up

PLAYBACK: Macca played with Bono and George Michael, Elton John with Pete Doherty, but getting Roger Waters and David Gilmour together for the final time really took some doing. Mark Beaumont remembers a history-making day, with the help of Razorlight and UB40

The Independent UK

Foo Fighters release punk cover song that was recorded across three decades

The American rock icons offer their own take on track ‘I Don’t Wanna Hear It’

The Independent UK

“It came off the rails quite significantly at the end of Hammer to Fall”: Brian May reveals Queen's Live Aid doubts, and how the band were "lacking oil"

Guitarist recalls “flaws” in their performance that day

MusicRadar

Bob Vylan say they have been ‘targeted for speaking up’ in fresh statement on Glastonbury controversy

‘We are not the first. We will not be the last. And if you care for the sanctity of human life and freedom of speech, we urge you to speak up too’ said the group

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Brian May lifts lid on Queen’s legendary Live Aid gig

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The Independent UK

Bob Geldof told Freddie Mercury to ‘just play the hits’ before legendary Live Aid performance

Queen’s six-song set is often remembered as one of the greatest rock performances of all time

The Independent UK

“Their music changed my life – if not saved it”: Band that soundtracked history gets the biopic treatment

Dominic West is among the names cast in Wind of Change

MusicRadar

Bob Geldof told Freddie Mercury ‘don’t get clever’ before 1985 Live Aid set

Queen members Roger Taylor and Brian May say Geldof told Mercury: ‘Just play the hits – you have 17 minutes’

The Guardian - UK

This Instagram Account Shares Pictures From The 1970s, Shows Why It Was An Era Like No Other

The 1970s are often associated with Vietnam and Watergate, but there was also plenty of glamor between the wild fashion, TV stars like Farrah Fawcett, and the disco era.

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Brian May and his wife break silence on Freddie Mercury's 'secret daughter from affair'

The Queen frontman reportedly conceived a girl during an affair with a close friend’s wife in the 1970s

Evening Standard

Sir Brian May doesn't believe claims that Queen bandmate Freddie Mercury had a secret lovechild

Queen guitarist Sir Brian May is sceptical about the revelation in a new biography that his late bandmate Freddie Mercury had a secret daughter, according to his wife Anita Dobson.

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The Independent UK

Iron Maiden star says rock group will always turn down offer to play Glastonbury

Rock singer has previously branded festival as ‘the most bourgeois thing on the planet’

The Independent UK

Irish trio Kneecap address controversial ‘dead Tory’ remark ahead of Glastonbury set

Band have insisted that their political statements have satirical intent and are not ‘more outrageous than the murdering of innocent Palestinians’

The Independent UK

Brian May has four-word response to claim Freddie Mercury had a secret daughter

The alleged love child has come forward in a new biography about the Queen frontman

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“Your Mirror To The 20th Century”: 18 Pics Of How Much Or Little Life Has Changed Since

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The Guardian - UK

‘Pop music can be so scared to offend’: Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso, the Argentine duo subverting machismo

After going viral with their Tiny Desk concert, the impish pair are heading to Glastonbury. They explain their ‘no shame, no fear’ approach – and their ridiculous muscle suits

MusicRadar

“They are not powerless in the face of human monstrosity”: Greatest Hits Radio to broadcast 10-hour recreation of Live Aid

It’ll be on the 40th anniversary of the epochal gig

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Instagram Page Shares 39 Interesting And Lesser-Known Pictures From Our History

These photographs, from scandalous to moving, from funny to weird, are beautiful reminders of the past that's overshadowed by the present.

The Guardian - UK

Live Aid concert to be broadcast on radio to mark 40th anniversary

Greatest Hits Radio to air original performances from stars such as Queen and David Bowie in 10-hour show on 13 July

MusicRadar

The unlikely encounter between a pre-fame Freddie Mercury and David Bowie at a London market

The future Queen frontman encountered his eventual Under Pressure collaborator when working as a shop assistant at Kensington Market

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36 Incredible History Moments That Were Caught On Camera Decades Ago

History and photography have always been good buddies.

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Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Holly Johnson on Relax beating Queen's Radio Ga Ga to No.1: 'Poor Freddie'

Holly Johnson admits Freddie Mercury was probably left kicking himself after Frankie Goes To Hollywood starved Radio Ga Ga of number one in the UK.

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