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October 1985, 7!
12 noon British time!
The world-renowned "Save Lives" charity concert took the lead in performing at Wembley Stadium in England!

The crowd of 7 people screamed loudly, some superstars who are about to debut in the United States are at the Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, but it is 7:[-] in the morning in Philadelphia, and the concert here will be officially held in two hours. opening.

However, this could not stop enthusiastic fans from flocking to the concert, and the venue was already overcrowded.

In order to appreciate the concert on the spot, Wu Jianye came to the Kennedy Stadium early even though he played later.

"Say we see Bob Dylan in a while, do you want him to ask for an autograph?" Huang Guanzhong said a little excitedly.

Wu Jianye smiled and said, "You guys better not do this!"

When the song was first recorded, there was no Huang Guanzhong, so this was the first time Huang Guanzhong met Wu Jianye, so when he first met Wu Jianye, he was always a little reluctant to let go.

"Wu Sheng, did you lose face by doing this?"

Wu Jianye shook his head and said: "It's not that I'm going to lose face, it's just that you probably won't get Bob Dylan's autographed photo. If you're just a simple fan, maybe it's nothing, he will give you Signed, but you are now a contestant who is going to perform, if you go to Bob Dylan to ask for an autographed photo, he will think you are unprofessional!"

Some people may think that it is a very interesting thing for the singer on the same stage to sign an autograph, but it is really not easy to do it with Bob Dylan.

Huang Guanzhong sat down resentfully.

Huang Jiaju glanced at him with a smile. Although Huang Guanzhong's temper was a bit grumpy, he played the guitar really well. If not, he would not have asked Huang Guanzhong to join beyond.

"Wu Sheng, when are we going to play?"

"Our appearance will be around five o'clock in the afternoon. Don't worry now, you can take a good look at the performance of other singers on the spot."

On the large TV screens of Wembley Stadium and Kennedy Stadium, each other's live broadcasts were broadcast.Each band needs about 20 minutes of equipment debugging time before going on stage, which can be used to rebroadcast the performance at the other end.

In domestic concerts or parties, the finale is often the last one to appear, but it is different in Europe and the United States. Their finale guests are usually at six or seven o'clock in the evening, which is the time for European and American concerts. And the Asian time of the party.

But now it is a very high salary to arrange Wu Jianye to appear at [-] o'clock, and the finale of the "Save Lives" concert is Bob Dylan, and no one can replace him.

As for Wembley Stadium, there is McCartney of the Beatles. After the Beatles disbanded, they never reorganized. Everyone thought that this concert could reorganize the Beatles, but in the end Still just McCartney.

But even so, McCartney still has to be placed in the finale position, which shows the status of the Beatles and McCartney in the global music scene.
On TV, the British royal family entered the arena, and Princess Diana and Prince Charles walked up to the stands one after the other.

As the organizer of the concert, Geldof stood behind Princess Diana and Prince Charles. At this moment, Geldof reached the pinnacle of his life.

'Save Lives' Concert has begun!

The first to appear was the legendary British rock band Status Quo.

Francis Rossi, with his ponytail, was very typhoon, and he also showed his demeanor as a rock singer. There was very little nonsense, and he only said three short sentences.

Hello!

How are you right?

You right?

Then this world-renowned concert officially began.

The first song she sang was the hit song "Rock in' All Over The World" from "Status quo".

The tune of this song is cheerful, lively and energetic, which immediately ignited the atmosphere of the scene.

oh, here we go, here we go

All together, the road to rock and roll

From then on

Let the world rock!
……

The "Status quo" band is a 20-year-old legendary veteran who was in a breakup crisis at the time.It was this "life saving" that brought them back together.

The second band to appear is the "Prestige Committee", whose biggest hit is "Internationalist".The title of the song was very fitting and of course it was on 'Save Lives'.

The third is Gildorf and his "Boom Town Rat".This is the first time he has performed on a stage of this size.Among all the stars participating in this live aid performance, I'm afraid he is the least famous.

However, from this moment on, it was different.

Ultrasound's New Wave Punk, Spandau Ballet's New Romantic Style, Nick Kershaw's pop electronic music, Nigerian female singer Sade's warm soul songs...

Big-name stars and bands with different styles took the stage one after another, which is a rare spectacle in the history of world music.

Not to mention the co-performance of big names.The tenth player to play was Sting and Phil Collins.One of them is carrying the guitar, the other is playing the piano, sometimes singing solo, sometimes together.

Even though Sting had just held his own solo concert here the day before, he still couldn't sing enough.

So, soon he appeared again, and ran to sing the harmony-partner is a famous band:

Dire Straits - Dire Straits.

Soon, his high-pitched and clear singing voice floated over Wembley Stadium.

I want my MTV...

That's right, the masterpiece of Dire Straits, "Money for nothing".

These people are the blades of the 80s world rock.Their role in enlightening the developing countries is immeasurable.Especially China.

Take the two singers of the song "Reaping for Nothing" as an example, each of them has influenced a part of Chinese rock and roll.

When he first debuted, Cui Jian was often said to have a style like Sting.He himself said:
My "Nothing" and "Fake Monk" were influenced by Sting, and "Rock and Roll on the New Long March" was influenced by the police band.

The Dire Straits deeply affected Su Yang.

When he was young, Su Yang got a re-recorded tape, liked it terribly, and listened to it countless times.

There was no name written on the tape, and he didn't know English, so he didn't know what it was called after hearing it badly.Many years later, he realized that it was called Dire Strait.

In the 80s, China had just opened its eyes, but the world was in its prime.

But it's different now, Huaxia has Wu Jianye, even though Wu Jianye doesn't want to admit it, but now the whole world regards him as the representative of Huaxia rock music.

If the word is in its prime, if it has to be used to describe a certain band today, it must be them-Queen.

As soon as the prelude to "Bohemian Rhapsody" sounded, the audience burst into cheers.The report of the New York Times called it: Queen's most exciting scene.

Before, Geldof called to invite Freddie, the lead singer of Queen, but he could not get in touch with Freddie himself.The agent quietly told him:
Freddie is very face-saving, you can announce it to the public now, and he will be embarrassed not to participate when the time comes.

So, in the movie "Bohemian Rhapsody", the plot of the gay agent withholding news and keeping Freddie from telling him is not true.He also didn't know he had AIDS.That was two years later.

At this time, Freddie was in excellent condition, and he even made elaborate arrangements for this performance.There are six sections in this song, and he only sang the second section with the most live atmosphere.Then cleverly received the second song, "Radio Gaga"...

The appearance of the Queen Band ignited another climax on the scene.

The entire Wembley Stadium continued to fall into a carnival festival, and all the fans were crazy, not to mention them, even Huang Jiaju and others at the Kennedy Stadium were also full of enthusiasm at this time, singing along with Freddie on the spot.

The temperature at Wembley Stadium was as high as 32 degrees today, and [-] men and women huddled together screaming and jumping.Countless people took off their clothes, the men were topless, and the women had only their bras.

The staff had to ask the nearby fire brigade to come to support and use high-pressure water cannons to spray water into the sea of ​​people at the scene to cool down.

Watching this scene on TV, Huang Jiaju and others couldn't help sighing.

"When will our concert have such an effect?"

"There will be this opportunity, believe in yourself!" Wu Jianye encouraged them.

Xiangjiang is too small, too small to accommodate a band like Beyond, and many top stars. Only by truly opening up China's market and relying on China's huge market can they truly be compared with the world's top stars.

This is a long and difficult process, but Wu Jianye is working hard for it all.

There is another joy in the concert at Wembley Stadium, that is, the bathroom in Wembley can't handle so many people at all, and it will be blocked and broken soon.At one point, the women forcibly occupied the men's bathroom, queuing for four or five hours to go to the bathroom.Many people can only solve the problem with beer bottles or plastic bottles.

Two hours after the start of the London session, the Philadelphia session started on time.

This is the strangest performance in the world - half the world is separated, but audiences on both sides can watch it at the same time.

A flood of donation calls from all over the world came like a flood.The operators are so busy that they can't tell the difference.

There was no Internet crowdfunding in those days.Geldof initially commissioned the BBC to set up 20 telephones to answer phone donations, and later commissioned a team of 200 from a telephone switching company.

People only need to make a phone call, report their credit card number and donation amount, and indicate how much they are willing to donate to Africa, and then they can complete the donation.

Before Wu Jianye was reborn, I saw a comment on the Internet: Everyone who watched the live video of this performance realized that he was born decades late.

Now Wu Jianye has not only seen the performance, but will even join it as a participant.

Already in the run-up to the show, Geldof was so anxious that he couldn't sleep for several nights.

With so many big names, they are generally rebellious and unruly people.

As long as one or two of them drink too much and release pigeons, then there will be big troubles, and the order of performances will have to be rearranged.Because, he himself has always been an unreliable prickly head.

What's more, there was no contract signed for this performance, and most of the big names just said a simple 'OK'.

Wu Jianye knew about Geldof's concerns a long time ago, but Wu Jianye could only say to Geldof about this: Haha, yes.

Because something happened on the spot.

That's when fellow Irish band U2, Guildorf's hometown, made their debut.

"Damn it, Bono's gone!" Huang Jiaqiang couldn't help shouting while watching the Wembley Stadium broadcast on the screen.

It turned out that after Bono sang a song, he suddenly jumped off the high stage, crossed the security line and pulled a girl from the audience to the stage, and they danced a slow dance together.

Seeing Bono dancing with the girl, Wu Jianye couldn't help sighing that he really deserves to be a world-class meddling lead singer - Bono.

This kind of thing can only be done on this occasion, but don't worry, there will also be other fun on the American side.

The expressions of the other members of U2 on the screen are a little confused. Even though they have long been used to Bono's various behaviors, they still can't walk on the same band as Bono, so they look a little dull on the screen. .

It is estimated that Geldof is scolding his mother at this time, scolding his fellow villagers for not giving him face, it is not authentic.

In fact, 20 years later, when the official commemorative VCD of this concert came out, this part was pinched
Afterwards, the girl defended Bono, saying that there were too many people at that time and almost trampled her to death, but it was Bono who saved her.

But Bono didn't show any face at all, he still had the same look, and told the truth:

As a performer, I am not satisfied with the distance between the performer and the audience.I always try to span that distance.

It's a big show for us as a band, with a billion people watching, and we're not singing the songs we're famous for.Everyone is annoyed with me, even very annoyed.

That act ruined my day, I thought I was going to ruin the future of the band.

Of course, not only U2 was cut.

Led Zeppelin has been disbanded for 5 years because of the accidental death of the drummer after drinking, and they reunited temporarily because of this live aid.They don't even have a drummer, and now they have Phil Collins as a guest drummer.

Because it has been too long since they were reunited, this great band became the scene of a large car accident.

Not to mention that Phil Collins played the wrong rhythm, the lead singer sang out of tune, and his voice was split. After 20 years, they offered to have their part of the show cut.

At this time, the concert at Philadelphia's Kennedy Stadium has also begun.

The popularity of the United States is not weaker than that of England.

Although Michael Jackson did not appear on the stage, there are Guinness World Records certified as the most popular female singer of the 27th century——Madonna, Sister Na.At the age of [-], she is at the age of infinite youth.

Regardless of her private life, at this moment, she is a well-deserved Queen standing on the stage.

There are also 19 Grammy Awards in his lifetime, and the only rock legend Eric Clapton who has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times.

Mick Jagger, lead singer of the Rolling Stones.Their logo - the big red tongue is the most famous rock LOGO in the world.

Later, Zheng Jun, a veteran of China's rock and roll, gave his son the English name Jagger, just to pay tribute to this legendary veteran who has been unrestrained all his life and gave birth to his eighth child at the age of 73.

Jagger, as a rock veteran, wouldn't be him if he wasn't doing something at a concert.

When singing a duet with the godmother of rock and roll, Tina Turner, she slammed the skirt off her lower body, forcing her to sing the entire song in black stockings and underwear.

Huang Jiaju and others sat in the background and saw all this.

"Jiaju, why don't you wear a skirt at the concert in the future?"

Huang Guanzhong couldn't help but said.

Huang Jiaju: "."

(End of this chapter)