Midge stated: ‘Would one thing occur in a few years’ time [to mark the anniversary]? Fairly presumably however it won’t be a live performance, or a file and it would tackle a special type. The necessity continues to be there and that’s not going to go away.’
‘I’ve stated, and Bob has stated as nicely, wouldn’t it’s nice to do one thing like that yearly just because there’s a requirement for it. There are such a lot of points on the planet proper now it could be fantastic to see artists on the high of the tree as we speak doing one thing comparable, however it simply hasn’t occurred, I believe, as a result of music perhaps doesn’t wield the identical energy it used to.’
‘Again in 1984, 1985, music was the be all and finish all. We didn’t have telephones, the web, we didn’t have screens that have been caught to our faces on a regular basis so there are lots of, many diversions for folks now. However again then it was all highly effective and the concept of a bunch of artists getting collectively to assist another person was unseen, to do one thing for charity was a novelty.’
‘Though I used to be a part of it [the original Live Aid] someplace behind my thoughts I doubted it was ever going to occur. It was simply too large, too enormous and we have been pushing know-how method past what it was able to doing or alleged to be doing – satellite tv for pc feeds from all world wide, two concert events with an ocean in between them – it was petrifying to say the least. [On the day] we arrived at Wembley in a helicopter and flew over an empty Wembley Stadium surrounded by hundreds and hundreds of individuals. That’s the second the penny truly dropped, and I realised that all the things we’d been speaking about wasn’t only a fantasy.’
