Freddie Mercury

eyecon  -  Live Aid - 1985

By Stephen Doig

Limited to 185 copies 

Print size 30 x 60cm - Image size 24 x 50cm

Signed and Numbered

Complete with

Certificate of Authenticity

Freddie Mercury - Live Aid, Wembley Stadium, 13th July 1985

By July 1985 I had landed in a new town, ground floor bedsit, shared Victorian house, a real-life Young Ones episode - though none of us would claim to have been the People's Poet.

The music set the tone. The Ants had long since retreated to their wild frontier. Frankie's days were numbered. But Queen ... Queen were already there, and about to be reborn in front of the world.

I was in the crowd that evening. Not at Wembley. In my bedsit, in front of a rented colour TV, VHS on standby. But I was in the crowd. A full house. An electric atmosphere. "Ay Oh!" Thank you, Freddie. We all watched from afar.

When Queen took the stage at Wembley Stadium before 72,000 people, they delivered what is now widely regarded as the greatest live performance in rock history. "Radio Ga Ga" became its most iconic moment. The entire stadium clapping in unison during the chorus, arms raised, moving as one. That overhead clap became instantly legendary. A moment of artist and audience so perfectly connected it has never been surpassed.

Freddie Mercury didn't just perform that day. He claimed the world.

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