Not long ago, a concert swept the screen around the world.
I believe that everyone has heard about it, or stayed up late to watch the live broadcast.
That's the "One World: Unite at Home" protest concert, launched by Lady Gaga and jointly launched by the World Citizens Organization and the World Health Organization.
The performance lasts for 8 hours and involves hundreds of artists and musicians from all over the world.
Contributed to an unprecedented ultra-luxurious lineup cloud show.
(Uncle Fish opened just in time to Eason Chan)
The show was judged by many media as the greatest show of the 21st century.
At the same time, many netizens commented:
This is the Live Aid concert of our generation.
After 35 years, Live Aid, hailed as the greatest show in human history, has once again entered the online agenda.
What Uncle Fish takes you back today is this epic performance of the stars shining-
"Save Lives Concert"
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Between 1983 and 1985, Ethiopia experienced its worst famine of the 20th century.
In the north alone, more than 400,000 people died in the disaster.
One day in 1984, Irish rock singer Bob Geldorf saw a news report on television about the famine in Ethiopia:
The local people who were tormented by famine were not able to survive, and the livestock fell to their deaths.
While people were suffering from hunger, the government achieved its political aims by limiting food rations to people in rebel areas.
This is a total violation of humanitarianism.
In early 1985, he went to Ethiopia and saw first-hand the hunger and suffering of the people in that arid land.
Since then, he can no longer stay out of the matter.
Bob began calling attention to the victims of African disasters in the depths of the water, and gathered dozens of popular artists to record the single "Do They Know it's Christmas?" for a charity sale.
The results have been remarkable.
After that, while the iron was hot, he prepared the great performance that spanned many districts - the life-saving concert.
Got Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Queen, Rolling Stone, Elton John, Phil Collins...
The wrists that the public can call the name are almost all invited.
So, on July 13, 1985, a great show was born.
The show used 13 communication satellites.
You know, the 1984 Olympics only used 3 satellites.
The two venues attracted a total of 160,000 people.
People from 150 countries stood in front of the TV, and more than 1.5 billion people watched the 16-hour concert;
Even NASA broadcast the show live to the astronauts aboard the Discoverer.
On 13 July, at 12:00 London time, Princess Diana and Prince Charles entered and sat in front of David Bowie and Roger Taylor.
Rock stars don't like to go the usual way, which everyone understands.
Singing and stripping naked, smashing guitars, and burning guitars are all small things.
(Jimmy Hendricks burned his guitar after playing Wild Thing.)
Although it was a public welfare performance, the atmosphere of the scene was still hilarious.
The superstars were also completely engaged.
The audience held out their hands to gesture around the Rock 'N' roll logo and collectively began to bungee.
For example, when the U2 band came on.
Lead singer Bono was sweating profusely when he suddenly rolled over and got off the stage.
The front row of the audience began to stir.
Despite the staff's efforts to block the rushing crowd, they could not stop a little girl from crawling out of the crack of her arm.
Bono stepped forward and hugged her, and the two danced to the sound of music.
This episode became a small climax of the live aid.
It also made this scene one of the most influential performances of the U2 band.
Concerts are getting more and more fanatical.
David Bowie jumped up and down the stage in a delicate silver suit.
The audience looked at the Sven scum idol and howled excitedly.
He twisted his waist calmly, as if this were his home field.
Each singer has a maximum quota of 20 minutes to sing.
Despite the precious time, David Bowie introduced all the band members who assisted in the performance before singing Heroes.
HeroesDavid Bowie - Live Aid (Live, 13th July 1985)
"Hero" is a song sung to Berlin, which was then divided in two by the wall, with a yearning for freedom.
During the Cold War, the song was considered the underground national anthem of East and West Germany.
After the death of David Bowie in 2016, the official Twitter post of the German Foreign Office:
"Goodbye, you're a hero now, thank you for helping to overthrow the Berlin Wall."
Therefore, there is no upper limit to the power of music.
It can stir up the deepest hatred and bring the most lasting hope.
The climax of the Save Lives concert came from Queen.
Last year, Uncle Ya's biographical film "Bohemian Rhapsody" was released in domestic theaters, and even set off a rock fever among the post-00s group.
The movie god restored his performance on Live Aid, and even the placement of the cup on the piano was restored.
But the unparalleled enthusiasm of the scene at that time could not be reproduced by the film.
When Uncle Tooth played the prelude to Bohemian Rhapsody, the audience went crazy in an instant.
Bohemian RhapsodyQueen - Greatest Hits
I'll give you a big one at the beginning.
Halfway through the singing, the staff handed out the microphone stand, and he picked up the shelf and began to walk around in a frenzy.
He sang Radio Gaga.
Lady Gaga's stage name was inspired by this song by Queen.
After that, Uncle Ya sang "We Are The Champions" and "We Will Rock You" and caused a chorus of tens of thousands of people.
We Are The ChampionsQueen - The Platinum Collection
We Will Rock YouQueen - I Love Dad
Everyone's emotions were turned to the highest level and melted into the music.
Queen's appearance caused the first surge in donations off the field, setting a record of £1 million in donations received in 20 minutes.
Music is the most contagious language.
Even when faced with lyrics in an unfamiliar language, the unclear meaning of the murmur, chanting, shouting can make the listener fall into a unique state of mind.
Towards the end of the concert, Oscar-winning Jack Nicholson introduced the next singer and said:
"Some of the songs represent the artist's skill, and some of the songs represent the times. I am honored to introduce you to the Voice of Freedom in America—
The audience shouted out a name in unison:
Bob dylan.
Bob Dylan walked up to the stage calmly, and how enthusiastic the audience was, how calm his performance was.
As if he had just woken up, he sang Blowing in the Wind in a daze.
Blowing in the WindBob Dylan - 50 Rockin' Hits, Vol. 66
Still singing blindly as always.
But the enthusiasm in the field did not diminish, who made him the world's first good sounding broken gong voice.
Widely lied about him in the film industry is his biopic "I'm Not There.".
It's the biggest biopic of all time.
Six heavyweight stars, including Kate Blanchett, Ben Weschaud, Christian Bell and Heath Ledger, play Bob Dylan's different stages in life.
If you can have such treatment, you can't find a second one in history.
After more than a dozen hours of performances, Philadelphia ended with "We Are The World."
We Are the WorldU.S.A. For Africa - Live Aid (Live, 13th July 1985)
"Do They Know It's Christmas" rang out in London.
The Save Lives concert raised about $127 million for disaster-stricken countries such as Ethiopia, saving thousands of lives.
It was a great show.
Its true greatness lies not in the stars shining, but in the stars shining to save lives.
While the music evokes cheers from the audience, it also reminds them:
Tens of thousands of people are still suffering from famine and living in darkness across the ocean.
In the melody, there are real emotions, with universal love.
Maybe we've lost Uncle Tooth and David Bowie now, and the gorgeous era of rock and roll has come to an end.
But we still have music, and we still have life.
As a lyric in Lennon's Imagination:
「No hell below us, above us only sky.」
There is no hell, only blue sky above our heads.