Live Aid (1985)
Boomtown Rats: "I don't like Mondays"
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Geldof: I'd thought that people wouldn't
. I'd thought that people wouldn't
. I'd thought that the political
which so interested me, that I could raise this day would just be
, so all that wasted.
Speaker: And here now is the band that's led by the man who was the
: Bob Geldof and The Boomtown Rats
Narrator: Geldof's own band
a hit in years. Would they get the money rolling
?
JK Rowling: But the fact was, everyone did want to
Bob Geldof. In fact I would say on the day he was as
as anyone else. People really wanted to see the man who'd made it all happen.
Song
The silicon chip inside her
Gets switched to overload
And nobody’s gonna go to
today
She’s gonna make them stay at home
And daddy doesn’t understand it
He always said she was good as
...
And all the playing's stopped in the playground now
She wants to play with the toys a while
...
JK Rowling: He stopped two thirds of the way through the
. The lesson today is how to die.
...
and soon we'll be learning the lesson today is how to die.
...
Marsh Hunt (Geldof's Assistant): 'cos there's not normally a
in the song. But the crowd have gone mental. Bob keeps his
up for what seemed for ever.
Johnnie Fingers (keyboard player): Suddenly that line
a completely different
.
...
And then the bullhorn crackles
And the captain tackles
(With the problems and the how's and why's) ...
Clip from
BBC Live Aid Documentary: "Against All Odds"
. First broadcast July 2010.
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