00:00It's been 29 years since Queen's big comeback at London's Wembley Stadium and we look back
00:08at the epic performance. Hey everyone, I'm Chloe Malas with ENTV on Yahoo! It was July
00:1413, 1985 when the iconic band Queen hit the stage at Wembley Stadium for the Live Aid
00:18benefit concert. Paul McCartney, U2, Elton John, Bowie and Sting were among the scheduled
00:32acts, but many remember it as Queen's big comeback performance after the less than expected
00:36sales of their 11th studio album The Works, not to mention some controversies surrounding
00:41their performances in South Africa during the height of apartheid a year earlier. The
00:45success of that nearly 20 minute Live Aid set has been credited to its lead singer Freddie
00:49Mercury. In Mercury's biography, guitarist Brian May was quoted as saying, quote,
00:53The rest of us played okay, but Freddie was out there and took it to another level. You
00:58could almost see our music flowing through him. Elton John apparently told the band backstage,
01:02quote, You bastards, you stole the show. According to reports, Mercury wasn't even supposed to
01:07perform that day because of a throat condition. Mercury's health would continue to deteriorate
01:11in the years following that Wembley performance due to his battle with AIDS. Before his death
01:15in 1991, Queen made two more albums and accepted outstanding contribution to British Music
01:20Honors at the 1990 Brit Awards, also known as Mercury's final public appearance. Now, nearly
01:26three decades after that epic Live Aid performance, rocker and American Idol alum Adam Lambert is
01:30channeling Mercury on his U.S. tour with Queen members Brian May and Roger, which kicked off
01:35last month. The show includes such Queen hits as Bohemian Rhapsody and We Are the Champions,
01:40which was the memorable closing song of the band's Live Aid performance.
01:55I'm Chloe Malas, keep watching ENTV on Yahoo! for all of your entertainment news.
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