Quotes About Live Aid

Live Aid is up there with anything I've ever done in my life: meeting so many heroes and being part of such a global phenomenon.

No, I didn't hear about 'Live Aid.' I was in prison, and we were not allowed newspapers in prison.

Neil Tennant: Live Aid was the last thing I was asked to do for Smash Hits. Mark [Ellen] asked me to cover it, and for some completely childish reason I just sort of couldn't be bothered and said no. So I watched Live Aid sitting in my studio flat on the King's Road with Jon Savage and [photographer] Eric Watson, all three of us slagging it off.

Live Aid was a baby Woodstock, a child of Woodstock, which I call Globalstock.

U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.

A lot of things in life only become historic in retrospect, but we knew that Live Aid was a historic day while it was happening. Two billion people around the world were watching it on television at the same time. It was a massive moment.

I performed at Live Aid in front of a worldwide TV audience of 1.9 billion but I wasn't nervous - the atmosphere was electric.

I've been asked that question lots of time before, why wasn't I on Live Aid? And quite frankly I don't know. I was riding high in the charts and the styles of music they had were quite varied from Adam Ant to Status Quo to Queen. I would have definitely fitted in.

Live Aid's one of my favourite memories of all-time.

The difference between the American version of 'Live Aid' and the British one - in England, if you wanted a cup of tea, you made it yourself. If you wanted a sandwich, you bought it. In typical American style, at the American concert, there were laminated tour passes and champagne and caviar.