Which was best.Live 8 or Live Aid.

You can only judge which was better based on the successes of the causes that they were organised for.

Live Aid for sure...even though the Philly show wasn't as strong. Live 8 was OK at best except for Pink Floyd of course.

In 1985 I was visiting my parents in germany. I remember the news bulletins at the time talking about the show. I was 20 back then but even before the show i felt electric. These where the bands of my era. The other thing I was thinking about was Woodstock.

There are sertain moments in music that are fundemental. Woodstock was one of them. It became famous worldwide mostly after it happened. Remember TV coverage these days was not as it was during the 80s (let alone 05'). When Live Aid happened most countries did not have cables. In germany at the time if I recall correctly there were only 5 TV channels to choose from. That was critical since alternatives were few. I was waiting for days and had a party with my friends and family celebrating the concert. At 2005 in the states there were 900+ channels to choose from on some packages but if you wanted you could even avoid hearing about live8 all together.
That wasn't the case in 1985. The world realy became smaller that day and ever since.

Ironically, you could not fly from one concert and appear on the other side of the Atlantic at the 'same' concert in 2005. Phil Collins did it in 1985.

Last note. A personal belief. Unfortunately music had not developed/changed that much from 85 to 05 (Referring to Live8 music - mainstream music). Definiately changed from 69 to 85. Just something to think about.

Cheers.

I loved Live 8, but admit to skipping through the various BBC feeds during the day. If somebody crap was on in Berlin (say Chris DeBurgh) there would be Snoop Dogg in London or Placebo in Paris.

That said, Live 8 Philly was pretty poor. Like London it had a slightly strange bill, but while Live 8 London was entertaining in it's eclectism, Philly was boring, staid, and in need of some genuine superstars (with Madonna, Paul McCartny, Pink Floyd, Robbie Williams, Coldplay, U2, Elton John, even Keane, the Scissor Sisters, and Snoop Dogg the London bill could hardly be described as lightweight)





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Live 8 wansnt as good as Live Aid. The only good part about Live 8 was all the older bands comming out and playing.

Really? I thought Live 8 kicked Live Aid's arse. Addmitedly a lot of really big artists who were asked to appear at Live 8 declined to appear for various reasons (Eminem, David Bowie, Oasis, Gorillaz, Jeniffer Lopez, the Rolling Stones all come to mind), but the bill was still amazing.

That said how the *beep* R.E.M., the Who and UB40 (all 3 of whom were good) kept their undeserved slots at Hyde Park, while the Cure (a classic and well loved band) and Muse (who are let's forget Britain's biggest international rock band, Coldplay excepted) where both shifted to Paris is a mystery, especialy as their "alt rock" leanings would probably have brought in more views than the above 3 (the Who should have played Philly or Berlin, their place on the London bill stunck of Harvey indulging Geldof)






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