Do Go On - 326 - Live Aid (with Joel Zammit)

Episode Date: January 19, 2022

This week we look at Live Aid, the monumental 1985 music concert watched by just under 2 billion people across the planet. Queen, U2, Madonna, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Run DMC, Phil Collins, David Bowie, Tina Turner and many more came together to raise money to fight famine in Ethiopia. The intentions were good, but where did the money go? Get tickets to Do Go On: The Quiz Show at The Melbourne Comedy Festival April 4, 11 + 18:https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2022/shows/the-quiz-show Support the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: dogoonpod.com or patreon.com/DoGoOnPodCheck out Joel Zammit's Sanspants Radio podcasts: https://www.sanspantsradio.com/  Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/Submit-a-Topic  Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] Check out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/ Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader ThomasLIVE AID SET LIST:http://liveaid.free.fr/pages/liveaidtimesdetaileduk.html https://www.phillymag.com/news/2020/07/10/live-aid-history/ https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/oct/17/popandrock5https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/oral-history-live-aid-ones-made-brighter-day-33-years-ago-174656465.html https://dangerousminds.net/comments/meet_david_weinstein_the_18-year-old_kid_who_opened_live_aidREFERENCES AND FURTHER READING Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Melbourne and Canada, we got exciting news for you. And we should also say this is 2026. Jess, what year is it? 2026. Thank God you're here. Right now, I'm in Melbourne doing my show with Serenji Amarna, 630 each night at the Cooper's Inn Hotel, having so much fun. We'd love to see you there.

Canada, we are visiting you in September this year. If you've somehow missed the news, we are heading up Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, and Toronto for shows. That's going to be so much fun. Tickets for all this stuff, I believe, are online. And I'm here too. And welcome to another episode of Do Go On. My name is Dave Warnocky and as always, I'm here with Matt Stewart. Hello, Matt.

Hey, Dave, how's it going? Thanks so much for having me here. Great to have you here, but also we are joined by a very special guest, Mr. Sanspance Radio himself. It's Joel Zammett. Ghetto, good day. Thank you for having me. Zammett, how are you? Yeah, I'm all right. Can't complain. I forgot your first name was Joel.

Yeah, look, so do I. I'm like, I think they fuck that up. I was panicking. I was also rolling the dice on that. I pick the name of random and that. Oh, it's yours, Amit. Yeah, you're like Beyonce or Elvis. You don't need to.

Madonna, maybe. Madonna's another classic. I do you remember, I don't know if you do you remember this, Matt. Maybe just as gracious person, but I do remember we did a live show together in, I think it was Adelaide. And at the end of the show, as when everyone was leaving and then like everyone ran off stage or whatever, due to some reason, I ended up being like, and thanks our guest, Matt Smith. I don't remember that at all. And because you're such a kind soul, you never picked up that up of me. And I didn't realize that until listening back to it and realizing I said that to a crowd of people.

So I just cut that out of the recording. I can't deal with that. That's just, oh, I was just like a too busy thing in a Doctor Who or something. Next week we'll be joined by Tom Baker. I do. I remember a long time. Like, yeah, I imagine I would have noticed at the time. But it's the kind of thing like, yeah, I remember the getting that.

advice starting standups like don't if the emcee says your name wrong don't bring it up on stage no one cares yeah don't bring it up especially if the emcee it's not just an emcee but also your friend that you just don't know yeah yeah yeah but you just obviously repaid the favor by not knowing zammett's first name we sammit god damn it zammett i know i'm i know your twitter handle thank you all right yeah anyway uh we're actually here at sam's pants radio what how cool is that Zam is one of the few guests that I will come on the show but also supply their own studio. So we really appreciate that. We must say that Jess is in a bit of a COVID isolation situation at the moment,

which I'm sure all of us will be at some stage. So it's her turn to be in the soundproof box. We are waving at her. She is conscious. It's only a matter of time. Jeez, I hope that dates well. But Dave, before we get into the episode, you've got an announcement to make about an upcoming live show we're doing. That's right. Do Go On is appearing live at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival,

been in a slightly new format. We are doing DoGoOn. Dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, the quiz show. Geez, those dots, I reckon that people were gasping. What's it going to be? Dot, dot, dot, dot. Is it going to tell us this week? Yeah, so as our quiz show, who you're quizzing?

Are you quizzing your fellow Dogo Oners? Yeah, that's right. So I'll be the host in this scenario, and each week I'll be bringing up one topic from history, and we'll be going through it, and I'll be quizzing Matt on one team with a guest, Jess on another team with a guest, going head to head, head to head in what I would call comedy shenanigans.

And they're going to be big guests. Dave has promised me big, big guests. That's right. Jerry Seinfeld. It's going to depend on who the festival books, but if Jerry's here, Dave said he'll get him. That's right. I want to heckle back.

I've got a big net. Jerry, get in. So yeah, that's really exciting. So there's three Monday nights. to do that 9 p.m. Monday nights. And we're doing it the Melbourne Town Hall, which is a proper nice venue. We've made it.

We told the Comedy Festival we'd sell the tickets. So please buy the tickets. We'd really appreciate it if it came down. So it was 9 o'clock on Monday, April 4, April 11 and April 18. Different show every week, different guests every week. Yeah, please come on down. It's going to be a lot of fun. I'm pumped.

You can get tickets at ComedyFestival.com. You will via the link in the description of this episode. So that'll be really, really cool. While we're here plug-in shows, Zamin, even sooner, you've got a live show coming out. Yeah, apparently, we're doing a live show February 19th at 5.30 at the Comedy Republic. It is a live Plumbing the Death Star where we're going to be answering the important question of, how would you curse a small village, which if anyone listens to Plummed Death Star, it's actually like basically a cursed episode, because we did this once before.

And when we finished recording it, like, not live, but it's like, you know, at the studio. And when we finished it, we all looked at each other and we're like, we can't release. This is terrible. This is bad. Like, we went places. So it's only available to, like, certain patrons, as it were. So we're going to be doing it live. So good luck to everyone that's there.

It's a great venue. We did our Christmas show there. What a great time. In December. I had a great time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, that's a hot tip. So people could write now buy tickets for four different shows.

We should say that about our quiz show. Each show will be entirely different. would show. Completely different topic. And it's going to be like a do-go on episode by the end, where you're leaving. You've laughed, but you've also learned. That's right, because we're deep diving into a topic you think you know a lot about, but then when you think about it, you actually don't know that much, and we'll find out

how little you know. You laugh, you learn, you live. And in the end, you lament a little bit. Anyway, we should really get on to the show, Zammett. I'll get Dave to explain the show to you and any new listeners. Dave, what is this show? Zammar, what we do here is we take it in terms of a report on a topic, often, suggested by a listener.

One of the three of us, me, Matt, or just go away, do a bit of a research on a topic, bring it back to the group in the form of a report. Now, you guys, and you can attest to this, because some people don't believe us, but you don't know what the topic is going to be. I don't. And we always start with a question to get us onto that topic. So my question for you and Matt is, in 1985, the broadcast of which a music concert was watched by an estimated 1.9 billion people worldwide.

What? 1985. Okay, I was not born. Okay, well, that was about 600 years old back then. Six or so 100 years, give it to take a couple of millennia. So you say, in 1985? 1985? Was it that one where Queen sang with the microphone stand? Yes, there is a microphone stand and there is Queen at this gig.

So is it a live aid type thing? Is it a live aid type thing so much so that it is indeed. Is it live aid? It's live aid. Congratulations. Zammett, you're so closely there, but we'll have to get it. Give the point technically to Matt. Someone is tracking the scores.

Okay, that makes sense. So I'm glad. We've saved them having to make a new column. That's, that's, look, you said Queen and I was like, I was like, I was usually going to be like, is that like a marriage between like a royal? Maybe. Is that way in Diana and that old. That was around that time, wasn't it?

She died in 97 the day the Saints finished on top of the ladder. Yeah. Bit of sweet day for you as a child. I was watching an Agatha Christie. Probably more sweet. Mystery when that happened. Really? Oh, did they stop it?

No, no, no. The murderer is, we interrupted this broadcast. The media hounded her. We were watching like Death on the Nile or something like that, like a VHS, and then when that finished, we were like, oh, oh, oh, no. Oh, no. That's, yeah. Anyway, sorry to bring that up for everyone.

Great egg of the Christie, though. There's no denying it. Rest in peace, the people's princess. Yes. And also the people murdered in death on the Nile. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Spoils, Dave. Now, this topic has been suggested by a few people.

Also voted for by the Patreon and supporters of the show at dogo onpod.com. I put up four musical topics in this one. Just pipped another topic that I'm going to get to one day. But I don't want to give way too much. But this one suggested by Zoe Jones from Portsmouth, Harry Green from Cows on the Isle of White, Sam Robinson from Wellington and New Zealand, Eric Morales from L.A.

And Steve Dumbold from San Diego. Ah, wow. They're from like three different countries. Yes, I appreciate it all. We're truly an international podcast. Big fan of cows, the Isle of the Wants. Yeah, so our cows is obviously named after their cows, I'm guessing. Do we not have anything original?

Our Marabins, the original Marabon. The Marabins. Yeah. That's what people call it. You tell me something like Frankston? Yeah. No. Surely not.

Oh, I bet you there is. Frank probably, he would probably name towns all around the world. Now, the background to live aid, sadly, is the unspeakable tragedy of a famine that took place in Ethiopia from 1983 to 1985. So we've got to go through that a little bit. But then there's a bit more light on the other side of that. But for the context, we've got to say food shortages led to a hunger crisis and famine that caused up to one million deaths in those couple of years. That's pretty fucked. Yeah.

Northern Ethiopia was particularly affected because of a drought and a border war at the time. And it's since been noted that the famine was caused by much more than a natural disaster, more than a drought, and had a lot more to do with government and war and the government spending on war and not on health and food. But at the time, it was why the reporter on as being a big drought, we've got to help these people. Their crops have failed. Now they're starving. So ignore the fact that we have military, military welfare. Ignore that.

Yeah, don't worry about that. Ignore that we're waging. Yeah, we're spending 30% of the budget on military and 2% on health. Don't worry about that. It's that pesky, no rain. At the time, that is the world's view of it. And the famine became big news, particularly in the UK when in October 1984, Michael Burke's BBC News Report beamed images of hundreds of thousands of people starving in Ethiopia.

The BBC were the first report on the famine, and Burke described it as, quote, a biblical famine in the 20th century. He also described it later as the closest thing to hell on earth. Central to that news story was 31-year-old British Swiss nurse named Claire. Bert Schinger, Bert Schinger. Great name. She was shown in the broadcast to be surrounded by 85,000 starving people and had the horrific daily task of deciding which children would be allowed into her feeding station and which were too sick to be saved. Cool. What a fun job to have. Yeah. So, you know, you are, it's a heroic job, but also very scarring. She didn't

talk about it for 20 years afterwards. It's really scarred her. Burke, the reporter later recalled, quote, there were two films, two pieces that finally aired. I knew they wanted them to be about three minutes, but I cut eight and thought, fuck them. And that's what they aired. He's a badass. Fuck them. Fuck them. They'll play this.

And they did, and it was a massive news story, and the images shot by Kenyan cameraman Muhammad Amin have been described by The Guardian as one of the most famous television reports of the late 20th century. It spurred the British public into... I reckon they could have just gone the 20th century. Or they're comparing it to television reports from the early 20th century? Let's just call it the 20th century. Why are they minimizing the achievement? Honestly, it was much more influential than the footage shot in the 17th and the 18th centuries.

Let's call it all time. It's an all-timer. Freaking hell. Oh, it's probably the most influential footage on TV from that. that week. From March 1985. Yeah.

Small sliver there. Yeah, the week after that. It really just diminish your achievements. Yeah, after that, top of the pops again. It spurred the British public into inundating relief agencies with donations and also put the famine on the front page across the world. It was even broadcast on a major news channel without revoicing Burke's original English commentary, something that was almost unheard of at the time.

Usually they'd revoice it, recut it. But they just, they were like, wow, this is powerful. so it just went out. Yeah, because, yeah, Burke had quite a difficult accent. It was like full cockney. And he was in, Nashville.

I want to hear more. Come on. Let's regret it. We crossed live now to Michael Burke in Ethiopia. Oh, all right. Hey, he what you see. Oh, it's here. Oh, blimey.

Wrong tone. I never had, I was going to, I was going to have control. I never had control of that. And that went for eight minutes. Just Gusu was finishing a dorry. All right, all right. All right, you guys. Oh, this one over here.

He's starving. Out one's starving. Oh, it's all fucked. He's all fucked. Powerful stuff. That is power. And they played that unedited. Yeah, eight minutes of, oh, fuck, Mike.

Honestly. Well, enter another man who's got a famous voice and also famous as well. on TV. Millions watched it, including an Irish musician by the name of Bob Geldof. Ah, yes. At the time, the 33-year-old was the singer of the Boomtown Rats, a band who do not like Mondays. Yeah, that's, did they have any other hits? That's their big international one.

Right. Probably, I think, locally, maybe. Tuesdays are all right. Wednesday's my favorite. There's a Friday-Saturday reprise. Sunday, Sunday. All I know about Galdolph is that he had maybe a feud with Michael Hutchinson's. And is that it?

Yes, I think he, well, he adopted Michael Hutchinson's daughter after he died because he was dating. The ultimate revenge. Raising your daughter after your death. Because he was dating Paula Yates, who maybe was the mother. But then she also died. Yeah. And then. They had a series of Irish.

UK hits including like clockwork, rat trap. I don't like Mondays and Banana Republic. Yeah, I think the Mondays one's one's going to know. Rat Trap sounds familiar. Rat Trap sounds like it's going to be a fun song. Yeah. Yeah. I just thought I was going to know something else, but no.

I don't like Monday's got released in 1979 and again in 1994. Yeah, a bit of a repeat. That's our, that's probably why we know it because it was a top. 40 single nearly 20 years after it was first released. How about that? How about that? As Michael, what is, whatever his name would say, Michael Burke. Probably not even seen that right.

How about that? Gary, I wasn't even, I didn't even get near an English accent. I just made it my voice deeper. I loved it. I lived for it. It's good. I appreciate it. Can you trim some of this stuff out?

All right, listeners, you might notice this episode is a little, a little, a little, a little tighter than normal because Dave is going to do a heavy edit of it. As he has to release it pretty much as soon as we stop recording. For that to happen, I will have to pull in all night or then go to work tomorrow. We'll find out. If you're hearing this, I went to bed. So Galdoff thought up the idea of he watched this news report that everyone else is watching at the time.

Big news, he thought up the idea of releasing a charity single to raise money and awareness for famine relief. Gary Kemp from Spandau Ballet, recalled in 2004, quote, The day after Michael Burke's report, I was in an antique store on King's Road. Geldof saw me and came in. What are these pop stars' lives?

He sucked the air out of the place and took over as he does. He said, Don't do that. Did you see the news last night? He was very clearly moved. Maybe if we get a few people together, yourselves, Duran and some others,

maybe he would be interested in making a record. I said, yeah, sure, and that was it. Great. So he's just got this idea. and just gone, seen a mate and gone, let's do it, and then it's happening. That's, it's interesting. I just, for some reason, assumed that Bob Geldof was interested, like he was visiting Africa and involved over it.

He just saw a TV report that everyone else saw it. Yeah, obviously very powerful report. Eight minutes of swearing in a cockney accent really got him across the line. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or whatever that accent was. He's like, mate, you see Saturday on the telly last night. Should we make a song? Yeah.

Yeah. Spanned out ballet. that they were gold. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. True. We have to stop and sing one of the band's hits every time I mentioned in a band. It was going to be a long episode. But now, I think you're, because I know two of these, this band's song.

So I think we're getting bigger as we go. What about, so. Gold. I'm always believing. Oh. I know that well, but I know of. It's band our ballet. So, Godolph's like, I'm going to write this song,

together with the singer of Ultravox, Midgeur, Mijur. It was Vienna. Vienna. I watched the making of that the other night. You know, when you're just on normal TV, just flicking. And the making of Ultravox's Vienna was on at about 1230 at night. Is the song called Vienna? I don't know.

The making of. Yeah. And it was, you know, the classic talk of heads are all sitting in rooms going, then what I thought was they were Scottish but he's like you know then I thought maybe

we could make the clip sort of art house you know was doing black and white was it a very important clip I guess it but they seem to think it was I would have been for them is there's a making of it

yeah that was on the tally yeah it's weird it's on the telly that's why I had to I couldn't get my head around what you meant making off what do you mean but anyway

Anyway, so he's often overshaded slightly by Geldof, but with him, he also co-wrote the song, Do They Know It's Christmas, the big charity single that year? Oh. So, Midge and... I was confusing those two things. I was thinking that this was that, but that had already happened. I'm not sure when Vienna came out. No, sorry, do they know it's Christmas happened before... Before Live-Aid.

Yeah, so they did the charity single first. And I'm not sure if you'll love or hate this, but Midge got his nickname because his name is Jim, and that's what Jim sounds like backwards. Even though you spell it M-I-D-G-E, M-G-E, Midge. Yeah, do hate that. Yeah. Yeah. As nicknames go. You know what I like about you hating that?

Because I expected to do this report with Jess, and I also thought she'd hate it. So you're filling in completely. Cool. That's perfect. I think that's pretty hateable. Yeah. When I hear Midge, I think of Moad talking about... Hey, Mitch.

Because he doesn't know her name. He doesn't know her name. Right. I thought it wasn't true if it was a nickname or if he just never figure out of name. Hey, Mitch. That's very funny if it's just he doesn't. He's got a big crush on her. He's got a friend's wife.

So Gailoff and Midge put the call out to their famous buddies and formed with the supergroup Band Aid. And on the 25th of November... Yeah, that's a pun. I hate that as well. It's a copy rated, like, brand. Yeah, but good luck to Band-Aid sewing for that. You look like a dick.

Yeah, Johnson and Johnson coming for you. On the 25th of November 1984, nearly 40 pop stars arrived at a studio in West London to record this thing. Artists on it includes Sting, Phil Collins, George Michael, Bono, Duran Duran, Culture Club, Cool and the Gang, Spandau Ballet, Bananarama and many, many more. Hughie Lewis. Was he there? Yeah, he got a late call-up if I'm thinking of the right thing.

Oh, fantastic. I heard him tell that story a few times. Really. He gets a call-up for this, but did not get the call-up for live-aid. Yeah, well, they're lost, I guess. Misses out. Well, I think that he originally was on there, but maybe there was a fight. between the people running it.

Right. That's one of the few things I don't go into. There's a lot to get through you. Nothing quite like, hey, we're doing something for charity. No, no, let my ego get in the way. Yeah, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. That's a lot of egos, too. Oh, so many.

They're all used to being huge stars in their own right. So just to get in the same room would have been interesting. And some of them have fused with each other and all sorts of stuff. There was some, there was, one of the stories that Huey tells, or I'm sure I've ever told at least once or twice, was that Michael Jackson was right next to him, I think. I'm going to butcher this. But they did it in one take. So, you know, it was, you know, Lion or Richie or whoever. And they do it one by one. Everyone does a line. Then it's Elton John. I can't remember who it was or whatever. And then it would get up to Michael and he'd, they would just stop before him. because he'd be like, if he didn't get it right, he'd fuck it up, so it'd have to all start again.

But they never let it. And then it meant that all the people after him... I can't remember. You haven't but you're still there. I'm there. It gives to Michael. They leave a space. I'm there.

I don't know what. You don't know that. I'm like, I can't remember. I thought it was going to make sense as I told it, but I'd... I've... We can fill this in.

So by the time I got to them, all the people after them... So they'd cut and start again. But there was some reason why it was a genius thing that someone was doing. I can't remember what? I can't remember the anecdote. Huey tells it well, though, I'll promise you. And the best part is, it's not, do they know it's Christmas. It's we are the world, the other charity single.

That he was... That's Huey. Huey, no. He didn't do it when it was Christmas. Which I didn't know they were, I didn't realize there were two different. There's another single, yeah. Which I also will talk about. And they, is this all happening after Michael, Michael Young's story?

Michael, who was the reporter? Burke. This all happened. Burke story. Burke story goes out, Bob Geldof says it says, we've got to do something about this. He writes and records, do they know it's Christmas, which despite being a legitimately terrible song. It became the fastest selling single in UK chart history, selling a million copies in the first week and passing three million sales in the last day of 1984.

The song went on to hold the record as the biggest selling UK single ever. A record had held until Elton John came along and re-released candle in the wind after the death of Princess Diana. Oh, that's funny that that came up. Initially, Bob Geldof had hoped the single would raise 70,000 pounds. That was his aim. It went on to make 8 million. pounds in the first year. Smashed it.

And continues to raise money with the royalties every year. So if you're hearing it on the radio, despite it being a terrible song, it is still raising money. Did it make a real difference that money? For a good cause, right? Because of the drought. Yeah, it did send a bunch of stuff over. Yeah.

But then Galdolph was like, we could do more. So he set his sights on staging a huge concert to raise further funds. His hope was that a concert could help the Band-Aid organization that he'd set up by a fleet of trucks to move food and supplies to Ethiopians in need. If they had their own... The first time they flew a bunch of supplies over with their money, which is great. But if they had their own trucks, they could break a cartel that had been set up in the country, was his idea.

You don't have to go through the local people who might rip you off. They own the trucks outright that food's going to go where you want to. That was his hope. So it's not going to like the military. It's going straight to the... They're cutting out the middle military. Yeah, exactly. The middle truckies.

Now, it should be noted that this wasn't the first charity concert put together by rock and pop stars. In 1971, former Beatle George Harrison had organised the concert for Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden, and this was a benefit for refugees in the former East Pakistan. So that had already happened 14 years earlier. Okay. But once Goldoff arrived at the idea of a concert, he was determined. He arrived at promoter Harvey Goldsmith's office and said, we're doing this.

Apparently, everyone who talks about him, he was like a whirlwind, like a real power, sets his mind to something. Everyone goes, all right, Bob. Yeah, right. There you go. You don't have to wave a gun around. With the help of producer Michael C. Mitchell,

live aid sold broadcast rights to 150 countries. Both MTV and ABC carried the feed in the United States and later in the form of a primetime special hosted by Dick Clark. Wow, the Dick Clark. The Dick Clark, DC. The BBC agreed to cover the event, clearing their schedules to run the 16-hour concert in its entirety on BBC 1, BBC 2 and on Radio 1. Bands, like I said, said Geldof was simply impossible to refuse. He travelled around the world to track them down and then demanded they add their names to the bill.

And apparently he even had to trick some of the artisans doing it. Andy's Weck, who was a production manager on the show, said, Geldof had to call Elton and say, Queen are in and Bowie's in, and of course they weren't. Then he'd call Bowie and say, Elton and Queen are in. It was a real game of bluff. That's great. You're in. And then, of course, they're like, well, if they're in, we've got to do it.

That's a great scam. Like, that's just, ah, he's just playing everyone's egos. Sure. Good job, mate. That's how we got Zammert to agree to be a guest this week. I said Elton was in. He said, all right. Yeah, so he's kidding.

Fortunately, Elton is running late. But he'll be here. He's notorious. He's notorious. He didn't ask questions about it. Bob Geldof himself recalled, when I announced it, the only one who was dithering as ever was Brian Ferry. Fucking Brian. So I just said, when he announcing it, he just said, and Brian Ferry.

And he rang to say, I didn't say, yeah? And I said, well, say no, then. You're the one who can announce it, though. So he's going to come out and say, no, I'm not doing that big charity concert. So he basically... It's the most pieces of shit. I know. For a right cause, I guess.

And you're also... you've given him a chance to just being involved in an iconic thing in the end. Like it made, it really built Queen's legacy, or gave you the chance to anyway. I don't know, no one's really talking about Brian Ferry's iconic. No, but spoiler, he does perform. Okay. He got him across the line. Was this the one that led Zeppelin reform for?

Is that a different one? Oh, yeah, I'm talking about that. Okay, great. I don't know if you've seen this, Sam it, but we'll be going through. I have not. My knowledge of this is like zero. Zero. I think mine might be quite a bit.

Well, I mean, I was talking about the wrong song before. Huey Louie Louie. Hughie Louie and Dewey Story. Uncle Scrooge was there. Oh, that's right. I got to Uncle Scrooge. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he made him stop the recording.

We finally found someone who knows less about Huey Lewis than Matt. If that story comes to you, just, just buzz in at any time. I wonder how it ends. What was the genius thing? Yeah. I think was it like they did it in one take, but because of MJ, they're like, where we pause a little bit so that even if he fucks up, we can keep going and it make it look like it's one take, but it's a split. I can't remember. And I definitely, what I do remember is it wasn't a story worth repeating.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Email us in. Yeah, that's right. Huey, email us in. I was having a cold sweat when I remember that you're not editing this episode. Like, I will regret that. Okay, so the idea of live aid was to run two massive live concerts simultaneously. One at Wembley Arena in London and the other at John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia.

And then other acts from around the world would join via satellite links. So they've got crosses to Germany. Peter Andre in Australia, probably. There is an Australian contingent. Yes. Didn't know that. But the biggest worry was sticking to time. Because, you know, they've sold broadcast rights.

They can't, a 16 hour concert, if it goes 10% out. That's a lot. It's a 16 hour concert. Yeah. Holy shit. It's a festival. Yeah. Probably the best line-up ever put together.

Yeah, amazing. The whole thing was planned down to the minute and even the second. Promoter Harvey Goldsmith bought 20 massive clocks and stuck them all around the stage and sent notes around to every single act saying, I don't care what time you go on. I only care what time you go off. So, you know, if you two runs 15 minutes late. Sorry, Brian Ferry, but you're singing one minute. That's nice.

He's running a tight ship, okay. I can respect that. Brian's like, I didn't even want to be here. I've been bumped. Did anyone get bumped? No, we'll get to that. So, Promoter Goldsmith's biggest worry was Axe going overtime, but Galadoff, on the other hand, worried that the axe just wouldn't turn up,

and that 16 hours of his own band, the Boomtown Rats would have been, quote, a bit too much for everybody. Rat Trap. All right, we're playing Rat Trap again. Oh, do we play Bynabon? a republic yet? Yes, six times. Have I told you my thoughts on Mondays? Another song.

It's like, oh, if we can stretch it out instead of like, we'll do Monday, but like, say, the first of Feb and the second, and we just go by the dates. What do we think? And that, we can stretch that to like... Tell you what. I don't like... May the 4th. Tell you what. The 40-minute version of I don't like Monday.

They're like, I swear Mick Jagger's going to turn up any time, guys. Stick with me. Don't change the job. general. To minimize change over time, bands performed on a revolving stage, so whilst one was playing another could be setting up. Oh, that's sick. At the end of each set, the stage would turn and the next band would start to play. In this way, there was only a very short pause, but the bands were also threatened by Galdolph. He said, no one goes over. If you don't stop, we're literally going to press a button and the stage will spin around. Which is hilarious to imagine.

This reminds me a bit of when we, well, when you organised a world record attempt at the longest. Oh, longest ever variety show, yeah. And there was a similar rule where you're like, each act couldn't go over. Yeah, you couldn't, 10 minutes each. And the MCs, which was Adam Knox and I, couldn't do more than five minutes in between each act. And we had a timer each time. So if one act theoretically goes 10 minutes and 10, the whole record's off. It's not a variety show.

This is all set down, the rules set down by Guinness. Yeah. And I, I get carried away a bit on stage and I talk pretty slowly. So I thought I had a set of eight minutes to do with a bit of a buffer. And then I see, there's clocks everywhere as well. And then Adam Knox pretty much came up. And anyway, that was Matt. Because I went to like nine minutes and 55 seconds.

You're yelling out the punchline. This is very much just like the, I guess the, the ends, justifies the means. Like, this is all Galdolph's idea here. It's like, no, I don't care. Whatever happens, we've got a goal and we're getting there. That's right. If I've got a fly kick out and John off the piano, it's what's going to happen.

I'm going to happen. Which is, like, stressing, like, going to make it there. And then if they do, it's like, now fuck off again. There are the side taping his, like, wrist. Like, come on, mate, come on. I think I read some way that U-2's manager called him at 2 a.m. The night before and said they'll only go on. if they get a sound check, but no one gets a sound check because there's no time for that.

And the manager said that, well, they won't play. And then he goes, well, fuck them and hung up. Of course they turned up and played. But, you know, he was just that. Like, yeah, he just got shit done, which is cool. I used to think he was a bit of a dick from the interviews I'd seen with him. But now I'm like, I respect this guy. Yeah, right.

Well, it sounds like he's using his bit of a dickness. Yeah. Oh, yeah, like, mad props to it. Like, he's like, I got no time for your divy shit. Yeah. You're not going to sound shit. You're going to come? Yeah, because if you don't, I'm not saying, you announce it, mate.

You say why you weren't there at a thing for charity. He's using, you said you were going to be, go on. He's using his powers of his own divinness to combat their divin. If you're the awesome at diva, you can't out diva. I'm King Deva. Yeah, he is King Diva. Well done, Bobby. Now, there's three awesome oral histories of Live A that I found, one on The Guardian,

one on Yahoo and one from Philly Mag. I'll link to them all in the show notes, but there were a lot of the, the quotes in this bit come from. English TV presenter Noel Edmonds was helping out with getting the artist to the London gig. So it's all voluntary. Everyone's volunteering their time. Noel Edmund's sort of chauffeering.

Yeah, and so, and this is him, speaking to the Guardian, he said, I had a helicopter company based in Battersea at the time. Of course he did. It's the 80s. Sure. We shuttled people into London transports cricket ground about 400 yards from Wembley Stadium.

On the day, it was the club. climax of their cricket tournament and they wouldn't abandon their game for us. So the umpires had whistles and when they saw a helicopter coming, they blew the whistles, whistles and the field for us to land. Imagine being playing in that game. You're on 99. You're reminded of a whistle blows and then Brian Ferry looking pissed off gets out of a helicopter. There's a grumbling.

What am I doing? I don't want to be. Giz. It would be amazing. You'd dine out on that forever as a. Oh, it'd be so great, wouldn't it? That's like, sort of like mid-level cricket, I'm guessing. It's not...

Yeah, yeah, it's not like... It's not international cricket or anything, yeah. Right, yeah, amazing. I seem to... This is another quote from Noel. I seem to remember that David Bowie's management said he only flew in a blue helicopter. That's blue on the inside. And we managed to find one.

I was killing time with him at Battersea before we flew in and I said, look at the inside of this helicopter. He looked at me as if I were mad. He didn't give a shit about what color of the helicopter was. That's so good We got you a blue one And he's like, what? Why?

Isn't that like a trick manager to do sometimes to make sure you really Yeah, and paying attention to the rider Yeah I put a weird request in Because if you get that right You've probably got all the actual stuff But I love that

But he's like, what? Yeah, imagine I'll do this charity thing But here's a ridiculous demand Yeah, yeah, yeah Here's my rider, okay? These are the things I need One, helicopter, blue

Yeah. Amazingly, everyone made it. I will say that David Bowie is wearing a blue suit at the gig, so maybe. Maybe you did want a blue. But amazingly, everyone made it to the show, including Princess Diana, who arrived at 11.30 a.m. Rest in peace. All the acts lining up to meet her. Like, they're all celebs, but they're all like, oh, my God, Princess Diane's one of the most famous people on the planet at this time.

It's wild that she came up independently at the start, and then you've already mentioned it twice. She's just on air, minds for some reason. matter a lot. TV presenter Paula Yates, who was also in a relationship with Geldof, had to stop at a petrol station on the way to Wembley because she remembered she hadn't got any flowers for the princess. Just as her daughter Fifi was about to hand over the flowers during the royal lineup, she realized that the price was on the very, very cheap flower. Here you go, Princess Diana. She's a princess.

I imagine she's like, oh, I'm furious that these flowers are going to throw into a pile. Yeah, me, a princess who can get anything I want And you've given me $5, you spent on me What a weird What a weird thing to get, all right, now you, my servants, Whatever, what do you call normal people when there's a coin? Subjects? Subjects, my subjects.

I've got a ridiculous amount of money But I still do want gifts from you for some reason. Surely she should be given out the flowers. Exactly. What the fuck is wrong with his system? This is why I'm like, Death to the royals, you know? Okay, it's good, because normally I'm outnumbered by monarchists on this show.

Dave and Jess are very... Obviously... No, no, no, no, no, no. We'll hail the Republic. Obviously, they were chosen by God to be there, to lead the country into battle. They've got that special blood, I know. Our country as well, though, Dave. Yeah, all the countries.

Honestly, if everything was under the queen, it would all be a lot better off. Nothing bad ever happened due to the monarch. Exactly. Oh, I didn't realize that. That's a great. That is an amazing fashion. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Once you realize, you can say why I think that, once you realize that.

Yeah. Once you realize that, most wars were probably fought, you know, because of like a petty family squabble. Yeah, just colors of like the rules in a bit of different light, you know? Yeah, exactly. They're the beautiful people. Yeah, beautiful, beautiful. Always right. Always right.

And they deserve more than cheap flowers. Anyway. Now, Zambon, I've done an episode. Cervo flowers as well. I've done an episode a year or two about woods, a year or two ago about woodstock. And some people were offended when I didn't give too much time on their faves. Okay. So I will say that...

Yeah, the band. Yeah, I offended. But that was because, yeah, I think we didn't realize you said the band. We thought it was whatever you said before that, and then you were just underlining the fact that they were a band. The band. Like you said something like the string band, the band. Like, oh, yeah, we understood that. Oh, so it's a band called the band?

Yes. Okay, okay. But we didn't give them enough respect. Okay. A few people were absolutely yelling at their iPods. And there were a couple of bands that I just sort of skipped over. But I will say that I simply can't go through every set in live eight because it goes for 16 hours. But I will go through the whole line-ups and no one misses being mentioned.

So hopefully everyone's happy with that. Some are still huge acts today. Okay. Others are 80s bands that now play at the Shopping Town Hotel. It's a real. That's fun. It's a fun game to see how many of these people I know. I reckon not many.

And also, what does Dave think is still a huge band? Like you would count you two are still being a huge band, even though they don't pop charts anymore. Yeah, but like a band that everyone knows. And, yeah, still sell out arenas. Yeah, that's in huge, like, popular culture for decades to come. The whole thing kicked off at midday local time in Wembley. 72,000 people packed the stadium. They each paid 25 pounds to get in.

And then at home on TV and on the radio, the audience, are encouraged to pledge fire, either calling a telephone line or by mailing in checks. Right. Really was a different time. And kicking off the whole show with the aptly titled song Rocking All Over the World, Status Quo. No idea. Well, you'd know them from the Coles ads, wouldn't you? Is that then?

Yeah, but which song is it? They're the ones. The prices are down. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. The Coles Band. The Coles Band. You know, the Coles Band.

Play the Coles song. Yeah, where's the Big Hand? I think all those Coles ads are their hits, but just with, you know, love changes to prices or instead of peace, they say, supermarket shelves. Rocking all over the world, discounting all over the world. In brackets, mostly the Australian market. But their song is rocking all over the world. So it makes sense that they kick it off.

Then there's the style council. Oh, I only vaguely remember. It's a great, great title. Yeah, what's their hit? That's the thing I don't have time to go through every one of this song. Look, fair enough. Literally, do not look up every band, Matt. It will take too long.

Dave, I'm telling you that the style council posse will come after us. No. They call themselves the posse, not me. I would, I mean, they're going to cancel the name. There is a list. They played, you're the best thing. Big boss groove, internationalists, and walls come tumbling down. I think I might know that one.

I mean, look at that photo. Yeah, they're a beautiful couple of boys. It looks like he's dressed up as that iconic rock photo, where he's around the bum bag and the gold chain. Oh, you know what's... Before his time. That's actually what's famous about this band is Paul Weller is one of the... Oh, from the hair, from the shampoo.

No. Famous. Weller, weller, weller, weller. No, that's all like that. He went solo after the style council. And he's called the Mod Father. He really influenced the 90s mod bands like Oasis and Brit Pop. There you go.

Oh, the Beatles influenced Oasis. He was also in The Jam. They covered... The Beatles. He was in the jam, then style council, then went solo. Oh, wow. So he's been around for ages. So he's a legend that we all should know.

People are furious that we don't. But so you can catch them playing at the Shopping Town Hotel. And then there's the Boomtown Rats, Bob Geldof's own band, which is pretty cool. Heard about them from before. Yes, they played I Don't Like Mondays. Now we know more of their songs. They played, I don't like Mondays, drag me down, and they encore with Rat Trap. Okay, retro.

It's such a funny name for a song. How come they got like an encore? I thought there was a very tight time. No, it wasn't. That was their life. They did sit a long version of that song. Then there's Adam Ant, who looking back, sounds a bit sour about only being allowed to perform one song. He played Veevlerok.

Okay. He's a guy with the one stripe across his face, yeah? Yeah, I think they're pretty good. Apparently, Adam and the, I thought they were just a funny novelty kind of band. A bit of a joke band. And they certainly were treated that way. for this. Right, because yeah, apparently, I know some of some bands that are like now of, you know, when they've guests on radio shows and put a music list together, they've played Adam and

the Ant songs that I've never heard of. So I think some people... Some people rate them? Yeah, I mean, it's also fucking subjective. Yes, that's the thing. But Adam, looking back in the oral history, he's a bit sour. He said, initially, I was asked to do four songs. And then I think what happened is big band started to show interest, Queen, Bowie, and late in the day, through Harvey Goldsmith,

the promoter, I was told, you're off the show, you're not doing it. Fortunately, I was managed by Miles Copeland, who managed Sting, and who said, if you don't put Adam on,

you're not going to have Sting. So I was allowed to play one song. Oh, that's, yeah, I don't like that too much. Yeah, but that is classic getting bumped for a bigger,

yeah. There's a drop in. Chris Rock is coming. But then Chris Rock has said, I'm not going on unless he goes on before. me.

Love it. Sting, someone says that to sing. He said, no, I'll go on either. Adam. Adam, who? Yeah, the ant man. I hate him. Then one of the crosses was Oz for Australia, Molly Meldrum.

Really? Then introduced via satellite some highlights from the Oz for Africa concert that was held on the same day at the Sydney Entertainment Centre. So there was a whole gig on. Yeah, right. And due to time zone differences, the Oz for Africa concert began 12 hours before the Wembley Stadium, and was therefore technically the first live-aid gig. Got them.

Got them. Got them. I'm fucking got them. Basically, it was an Australian thing. Well done, boys. Well done. Bob Geldof is basically Australian. Jess loves a big international story that somehow references Australia.

She would have been so excited by this. So, who, and mid-80s in Australia, the bands, it would have been like Brian Manix and stuff like that. Well, so Channel 9 and 7 both played the whole concert in Australia and some songs by In excess were actually shown on BBC in the UK. And other songs by Men at Work, Little River Band, and Inexcess as well, shown on the United States on ABC. Oh, they're all held up as, like, they're still pretty well-known bands, I think. Yeah.

They're all ones who sold overseas as well. I was really hoping they were going to throw up some just big local market bands. Well, the ones that didn't make it so that we had mental as anything. Uh-huh. Cool. Machinations, the models, Do-Rei, Me, Electric Pandas, Dragon, they're a big local band. Don't go out in the rain.

Don't go! Which they played, as well as, are you old enough? That is a creepy tune. Ozzy Crawl, Australian Crawl. Oh, yeah. Party Girls and the Uncanny X-Men did play. That is Brian Maddox's band. I would have, I mean, yeah, I reckon I know two-thirds of those.

That would have been a great... And in excess headlined. No, when? Farnham become like an Australian icon. Well, he played a liberal. He was an icon as a team. And he was in the Little River Band for a while. He was playing a win.

Where was he? But he might have been. It was sort of in that mid-80s period. But he went solo again and had in, I think it was like 86 maybe was when he had the album with Yula voice. That would have been great for like. Yeah. Big crowd single. long tune.

Yeah. What was that album? Whispering Jack. You're not going to believe it. What a name for an album. John Farnham, in the band from 82 to 86. So who's it? He would have been there.

Farnsey played a love ad. Did they play playing a win? Kita. Let me, I can bring up their set. Their final song was playing to win. Fantastic. It's all coming up. All right.

New time. Time machine destination for me. I'm going to go to Live Aid. Oh, awesome. London or Philadelphia? Oh, no. Sydney. Sydney.

That's the best. I'd love it if you did that. Like the person operated the time machine's got live ad ready to go because so many people choose it. You go, whoa, whoa, whoa, no, no. Does that say Wembley? No. What the hell is that? Why would I want to go there?

You misspelled Sydney Entertainment Center. Did you know, like 12 hours before this garbage? But in Sydney, no. Maybe if they let Adam and the ants play more one or two more tunes. But one, Chuck. Then it was UltraVox, Midrhus Band. Then Spandau Ballet. No idea.

Elvis Costello. No, that one. There you go, got one, great? That's a name I know. Is that because you're thinking of Elvis Presley? No, no, no, no. He's got glasses, yeah? He wears a hat.

That's right. All of his arm. What did he play? He's one of a lot. one of those guys who could play a long set. He looks like a failed uncle, right? No, he looks like a successful uncle. Yeah.

He actually had an extremely short set. He played the Beatles cover. All you need is love for three minutes. That's all he did. Yeah, interesting. Apparently, he got his name because he, when he, he went to some little punkish kind of record label

was going to sign him. And they sign him and they go, but by the way, your name is now Elvis Costello. His real name's like something quite plumbus. Lane, I guess. He's like, all right. And he just said, yeah, all right. And they went, oh, we were joking.

Your name is Elvis Costello. Oh, okay. She's like, yes, this is what record labels do. Yeah. Oh, I got, yeah, I'm just stoked to sign. Early on, so big bands end up having these long, awful contracts because they, you know, they just want to make it. I love the absolute opposite of that, and this takes real confidence.

the white stripes early on. Record label wanted to sign them, but Jack White said no, because the logo of the record label was green, and he didn't want to put it on the back of his album. Yeah, that's amazing. He just wanted red, white, and black, which is their colours,

and they wouldn't change the color, and he went, I don't want to do it. Yeah, that's like an extreme version. So Wester Stallone was sort of similar with Rocky. He was like, he had all these film companies who were interested in the script, but he insisted on starring and they're like, no, we'd love to get.

And he held out and he held out and they ended up caving. Love you, if you're that confident, which is, I'm still waiting for Warner Brothers to get back to me. I'm actually going to be in my own action movie. They said they'd pay me $9 million for the script. I said, no, unless I'm in it. Now, hold on out. That's good.

Elvis Costello's real name, Declan McManus. It's not bad. That's a good name. Dech McMannis. That sounds like a boy band member, though. Yeah. Not in a punk rock label But like some, look, he does, look at that picture here

He's a picture with Mary Louise Parker He looks like an uncle that like He's pretending he's doing well Yeah, look. Look, if you met him at like a family do And he's like, I'm doing really well And I'm like, I'm sure you're an uncle, Elvis, I'm sure you are uncle Elvis.

Seven beers in, it's like, hey kid, can I borrow 20 bucks? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, here's the uncle that's hitting me up for a 20. Anyone, any uncle who's going around to his nieces and nephews going, well, I'm doing really well. I know what you, I know what your dad said about me. All right, Uncle Declan, I did not. And also, I will not call your Uncle Elvis.

Uncle Dax, I get it, I get it. I'm doing really, really well. Yeah, of course, man. Come to my record. I've got gold records all over the walls. Yeah, I'm sure you do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And yes, you can sleep on my couch tonight.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't need a couch. I've got, I've got, quite a big house. Man, honestly, don't be too proud. I've heard about you, uncle. I've heard of you. That dinner, they gave him one song and it was a cover.

He goes, don't you know I played a live ad and you go, yeah, but it was one song and a cover. I mean, you're really doing that well. At least Adam Ant got his own song. He did his own fucking song. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So are you really doing well? You're just pretending you're someone else.

Adamant is also your uncle, walking around in a full costume. I'm doing really well. Yeah, we know you're doing great, mate. Adam's doing great. Elvis. Elvis, have you meant Adam? You made you get a gimmick. He dresses up like an ant.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I guess. And here's you. That what do you reckon? A bit of face paint. I think he's trying to dress up with an ant, isn't it? Yeah. And here's you, Mr. Elvis.

You know, just shunning our family name. Yeah. Peace is. The McManus is a proud clan. And here you. Elvis, Elvis. So I'll go through the line-up separately, but it was at this point you've got to imagine

that the Philadelphia concert kicked off, and from then on it went one band in one city, then the other, and they'd broadcast live at the stadium, the footage. Oh, that's cool. So that way there's always something to watch. Then there was Nick Kershaw. We're still at Wembley.

I like to know you. I like to sing you know all me well. I only know Nick Kershaw, because Tony Martin will sing, like, little bits of his songs on his radio shows. sometimes. Oh, okay. I like to think I know where you're.

I don't know if that's the lyrics or not. I've never heard an actual song where him, but I've only ever heard Tony Martin's version of Nick Kirshel. His opening song was called Wide Boy. Absolutely classic. That's great. I think, I don't know this for sure,

but I picture him as like skinny leather ties, sort of that kind of 80s. His closing song is called, Wouldn't it be good? Wouldn't it be good? Yeah, I think that's one of the ones that Tony Sounds a bit like...

He's like trying to rip off the beach boys but then change a... Wouldn't it be good? If we had a wide boy... Pointing to someone in the crowd. I don't piss off. Piss off, Nick. Wide boy at a charity concert for people who were starving. Oh, Nick, what were you thinking?

Poor taste, mate. Just a little bit. Um, wide boy. That's one of the funniest song titles I've ever heard. Really funny stuff. Great work, Nick. Probably a masterpiece.

People are furious. Kirshaw heads are at home going, they're making fun of Wide Boy? Are they mocking the seminal classic, Wide Boy? I mean, I'm going to look at it on Spotify. It's probably got like 100 million plays or something. Nick Kirschor, is it one of his big hits?

It's not there, But his most played song is called The Riddle, then wouldn't it be good? Then I won't let the sun go down on. And then wouldn't it be good re-recorded? And then I won't let the sun go down on re-recorded. No, no sign of wide boy. Or, uh, I like to know you well. Or something like that.

No, it's mostly remixes of wouldn't it be good. Obviously he's big hit. Oh, I found it. It's, uh, wouldn't it be good is the one. with the lyric, I'd like to get to know you well, I think. Why are we getting side track by this?

I know, sorry. The last lyrics of Wide Boy, it's, I'm here to tell you that you ain't no Superman. You're just a Wide Boy. The poet, Nick Kershielder. That's a really funny. Wide Boy.

I found on Spotify it has had 2 million plays. Okay, okay. Great work. Wide Boy. All right. People seem to be digging it. Must be a good song. Yeah, people loving it.

What? I know. I love to post and listen to it. Well, so that's Nick Kirshaw. Then, BB King, beamed in to do a set from a jazz festival in the Netherlands, which is pretty cool. Heard of him, yep, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.

Then the singer Sharday, big at the time, and had a very acclaimed set. What was her big song? She absolutely killed it. She played, why can't we live together? Is it a crime? Your love is king, her three songs. I think she had one really big song and I didn't recognize any of those.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I have no idea who this person is. Then you're going to know, you probably recognize these names, but I... Fingers crossed. Then Sting and Phil Collins performed a medley of their songs together. Yep, I know Sting from the Dune film. He was very good in it. Oh, my God.

One of the worst films I've ever seen. What? Do you like that movie? Like, yeah, but not for good reasons. Oh, okay. I tried to watch it as a good... Maybe I've got to reassess my watch. Yeah.

I definitely know. wouldn't it be good? I'm just looking at the lyrics. I know that song for sure. Right. But you don't know. Wouldn't it be good to be on your side? You don't know what, boy.

Grass is always greener road over there. I know that song. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wouldn't it be good? Apologies for the singing. Can I ask which of the nine version on Spotify that was? He's definitely, if he's still getting around, he's starting and finishing sets with that. Starting and finishing.

Hey, guys, in case you got here a little late. Here it is. Wouldn't it be good? Wouldn't it be good if you're on time? All right. One, two, three, four. Stinging Phil Collins performed together. I don't have you heard that bit, Matt.

So that's pretty cool. Medley, one of their songs than the other. Then Phil Collins left Wembley via a helicopter just before four o'clock. Flew to Heathrow where he connected with a waiting Concord plane to fly him to the USA where he would perform at the other event as well. Isn't that great to spend so much money on fuel and stuff for a charity event? At the time, we weren't worried about global warming. Can we use this Concord flight to send some food over?

Now we're going to send Phil. Sorry, we thought he said send Phil over. We thought you needed Phil. And here it is. He's playing to. They're like, one, we've never heard of you two. What the fun? It is just a little ridiculous.

Because a lot of these bands and performers would be paid astronomical amounts that they could kind of do a lot with what they have, right? And so it comes out like you to personal responsibilities But it's just like no no no no no Just like the ego to be like I am gonna perform in Wembley And then get on a fucking plane A helicopter first

A helicopter first blue interior And then On the fucking Concord And then perform in America And that's gonna be sick I am doing so It's like just like the cognitive dissonance That you must have

For any of this to be like this is going to be a sick idea. I feel like to be super rich, you must have some cognitive dissonance going on, right? Yeah. To not be going like, I probably should. I can do a lot. I reckon I could probably fix some problems. Maybe.

But like not being like directly involved. Just if I throw a money at it. But you got to remember, it's the 80s. Everything's big. Hair, that's true. Shoulder pads and ecos are flying at an all time. Huge. Great is good.

That's the 80s. Yeah. I think, yeah, the whole mindset. said they didn't. Although people were already talking about some things that were happening negatively, right? And people actually also talk about how some people say that this saved the decade of the 80s because it actually made people think about, because it was all about greed and all that sort of stuff. Okay. Sarah was like, this is a good idea. Because, you know, I mean, 1.9 billion people watched it. That's something. Did anyone get

pissy at Phil Collins for like, keep going and getting on the Concord being like, why didn't I do that? Why was an iron fight? Where was my Concord? Hello, hey, look, I know, surely Sting would have been like, oh, okay, he gets to go on the... Is there another seat? I wonder, wouldn't you be like, glad I didn't have to... I could get my set out in one hit. Yeah, honestly, it's a big, brutal. It's a lot.

And you hear, Phil does a lot during the day, I'll talk about that. I should, I need to, because people will be yelling at their iPods. Me going on about that, like to get to know you well, being a Nick Kirschaw song. It was actually a Howard Jones song, another guy that I don't really know. But Tony Martin, he mentions those two acts. Oh, okay. That's what connects him in my head. Right.

Well, next time, if you could just quote, wide boy, would be much happier. Honestly, Dave, you sure you don't have time to edit this one tonight? Hey, every, every, you've clarified everything. People have hit the tweet, replied to the tweet saying, sorry, you just realized it was Howard Joan. I know a lot of our listeners. Or B B Howard Jones heads. Oh, B, B Howie Howe He has.

Phil Collins, so he gets on the Congon's. He later remembered, all the baggage handlers came out to wave goodbye. Then we took off in the Concord. Share was on the flight. Okay. Just heading back to the States. And I'd never met her before, so I went over and said, hello. You know, hi, I bought I got you, babe.

That's what he told you. She's like, what the hell? And she asked what was going on. I told her about Live Aid, and she asked whether she could get on. I told her to just turn up. That's fine. So it went from being like, okay, if you are coming, you have a certain amount of fucking time and don't you fuck around or you are cut to like, yeah, just come on. He's kidding.

He's out like, fuck, he's got no control of this. Is it? This is a bomb. Is it? Yeah, I know. He's like, he's saying to the pilot, hey, I reckon he could drop by. Yeah. Drop by.

So, yeah, like, Galdoff is there being like, we've got this accent. Shire pops up. He's like, what the fuck is this? He probably also like, I guess it's she's pretty big. It feels like a good problem to have. But I think those sort of things make for a better story, right? Yeah. That shares just don't want to drop in.

Yeah, just whatever. Imagine, you know, the belief of being like, this is an all-star festival. Yeah, bump one of them for me. Yeah, that's right. Has Adam Ant played yet? Get him off. He's Adamant.

That's why he wears the mega's to cover the tears. Oh, the perfect time to bump Adamant would be directly after Sting performs. Yes. Because he's got no leverage. That's right. Yeah. just like, we've already got Sting again. Bumped for sure.

Oh, poor Adam. Yeah, in the deal. All right, but Adam has to go on before Sting. I know what you like, gelled off, you dog. Brian Ferry, who was bullied into playing, got on, so Brian Ferry from Roxy Music, he said, I have terrible memories of it all going wrong. I'd put together an all-star band and the set was fraught with problems. We had David Gilmore from Pink Floyd on guitar, and poor David, his guitar wasn't working

for the first couple of songs. Oh, Jesus. With his first hit, the drummer put his stick through the drum skin. And then my microphone wasn't working, which for a singer is a bit of a handicap. Oh, a little bit. Yeah, well, no more than the guitarist's guitar isn't working. There's no guitar. There's no vocals.

There's no drums. The bass player, it's my time to shine. He's carrying that band. Oh, my God. Brian said, a roadie ran on with another mic. So then I was holding two mics taped together, and I wasn't really sure which one to sing into. It was a great day, though. He's got fond memories.

That's kind of nice. It's like pairing a fuck up with a good thing, so it's like it stays in his mind a lot. Positive fuck up. Because, yeah, there's other stories, or the Led Zepper one, I believe. None of them remember it fondly. If I'm thinking of the right thing.

You are absolutely thinking of the right thing. And you know what? I've just gone back to the set list to have a look at what Brian Ferry played, and you're never going to believe this. But after Sting and Phil Collins before Brian, I missed one band, and that is a certain Howard Jones. Oh, no kidding. Oh, there he go.

When I was copying over the set list, I missed him. He played hide and seek. Is that the song? No, I think it's called, I'd like to get to know you well. I'd like to get to know you where. They let him play one song so that Howard Jones was on the lineup. That's amazing. There you go.

I just missed it. Thank goodness, because people would be furious. Geez, yeah. I think I'm going to try and listen to, there must be. Spotify and other playlists. Oh, I've been smashing it all week. It's awesome. Yeah, great. So you would have heard some Howard Jones then.

So you would have probably heard wide boy. No, to be honest, some of the acts I really skipped through this. It goes for 16 hours. So Brian Ferry, then Paul Young, then you two played an acclaim set that showed that they were future stadium superstars. They were four albums in and on the rise, but they'd only had one top 40 single in the US at this point. Oh, interesting. which was pride in the name of love. Rolling Stone later wrote that the 12 minutes at Live Aid really made their career,

referring to their 12-minute version of their second and final song they played, a track called Bad. They did a 12-minute version of a song. Yeah. And how long did they have to play? About 15 minutes. Okay. Was Galdorf furious?

Or was he just like far enough into the concert that he's probably given up? No, it's not even halfway through. Don't worry, Bob. We're only going to play two songs. Well, they were supposed to play three. So they played Sunday by Sunday, which was a hit in the... Sunday, Bloody Sunday. I don't like Mondays.

I'm getting a bit of this. What's with Irish musicians and days of the week? I was like, I don't know about this. I kind of did the days of the week thing. Craig David comes on. He's fucking furious. So they were meant to play their big hit pride in the name of love. But Bono went AWOL and went into the crowd during their 12-minute version of bad.

He wanted to bring three girls onto the stage to dance. Classic Bono. And it took so long they had to cut their final track. And the band and the crowd can't see what's going on. So you can literally see the band looking each other like, ding-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-c. You know that classic. And this is the set that made their career.

Yeah, yeah. Because... Holding time. Just playing for time. Because he's a rebel. He's going to the crowd. He's grabbing women. The microphone...

Sorry, not the microphone. The TV camera captured it all. So at home, everyone seeing this great moment. He goes in, and it takes a while for security to let the girls out of the crowd, and he's going to come up. And he dances with them. But Bono had this big idea to create a TV moment, which he did. So it was a massive thing at home.

But the band actually left the stage because they had to cut out. It's a different time, right? A big TV moment back then was a mulleted Irishman. Getting into the crowd is bringing a few people out. A few people out, kissing them on the two. Ding digger ding-dick-ding-d-d-d-d-d-ding. That's a TV moment. Everyone was glued to their screens.

Is he going to get him over the barrier onto the stage? Oh, Coen Fonda, will they fall over? Yeah, I think the only TV moment I can think of really, that more modern is like Justin Timberle, you know, grabbing Janet Jackson's titty out. And like, that's like, that's a TV, like a terrible TV book. He's like, oh, you're fucking up. Well, you remember that moment.

But you remember it. That's a TV moment. In the 80s, people remember the time Bono, got some girls out of the crowd. Yeah. And so the band actually left the stage thinking that the set was a bit of a mess because they had to cut their whole last song that hit. But later heard that they were named by many years.

as a highlight of the day, and with so many people watching it really cemented their status as like rising superstars. Because he grabbed three. Massive for YouTube. People remember like, oh, yeah, I know. And I'm also, if you watch the set, when they're performing, they are really good.

Yeah, right. Yeah. I imagine to do that better, they should have, that long version should have been their hit, you know, and then they get the people up on stage and he sings the big,

because that is one of those big arena, all their hits of big arena songs, but, you know, in the name of love, all that sort of stuff, that would be pretty sick. After that build up, the tension build up,

and then the big chorus that no one's heard before. Ding-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d. We're bad. It's apparently a staple of their live set, but the song Bad, so it still is. So is a song we'd know?

I didn't know it, but I really, I thought it was awesome. If you watch it, they sound good. They were one of the, And you know, you used to hate you too. So you got converted by this TV moment.

That's right. Oh, no, I didn't hate you too. That's okay. You can hate you too. I don't have much care for you too. That's my thing I don't love or hate them. I'm very YouTube neutral. But some of their songs are like Sunday Bloody Sunday and one is a great song.

Love that song. I think, yeah, they got a lot of great songs, I think. Yeah, but yeah, definitely don't hate them. Yeah. But the TV moment. I would say I don't love more hate them. I know Ireland hates them. Yeah.

Or at least hates Bono. Which we found that out. Yeah, we did a live, we did Bono and you two as a topic. Yeah, right. And they did not appreciate it. It was fun. Okay. Because they hated it so much.

For a while, we thought they were saying boo no. Boo, no. Are you saying boo no or bono? I was saying boo no. Then die straights performed with Sting who sings, I want my MTV on, or I want my TV on Money for Nothing. You know that song? Yeah. I didn't never realize that was.

sting in that bit. And then he did it live, which is super cool. We did an episode about that album on Listen Now. Oh, your spin-off podcast about you were going through the 80s at the time. Is that right? Yeah. We're still, we're counting down the, as voted by the listeners, the top 20 albums of the 80s. I think we're 11 or 12 albums in and then COVID. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we're...

That pesky COVID keeps fucking things, you know? Do go on. We find ways to get it done every week, no matter what. But listen, now, we have a different... Yeah, that's right. Different ethos. But they're harder, because we play clips of the songs, it's just hard to do it remotely. I try to start cutting them in, and it was an nightmare.

So I'm like, we'll wait this out. We'll wait. How long could this take? And every time we schedule in a session in the studio, it was just, like, guaranteed to call a lockdown. Yeah, yeah, so we asked you to kindly stop scheduling. Stop jinxing. Listen now is cursed, the cursed podcast.

Then, when you think of a band at Live, there's generally one band set that comes to mind. A band that has absolutely knocked it out of the park or stadium, if you will. Do you know what I'm talking about? Nick Kirshore. Fantastic. The Nick Kerchall featuring Howard Jones.

I am, of course, talking about Queen. Yes. They were introduced by comedians, Griffrease Jones and Mow Smith, dressed as police officers addressing the crowd. They say, we've had a bit of a complaint about the noise from a woman in Belgium,

which is very funny. That's that loud anyway. That makes it loud. Belgium's quite a while away. It's this distance, far. And a woman, that's funny. Because they're not the only ones who are complains. That heightens the sort of the comedy there, doesn't it?

They do a bit of stand up to just fill in the time between acts. It's good. It's good. We're going to have to do the rest of the day quietly. Unplugged. Unplugged. You will hear nothing here, but at home, they will hear it.

So they do a medley of hits, which a lot of people said was absolutely genius. Yes. They didn't just play like, most bands play their three, five-minute songs, but they just went, all right, we're going to play. That's clever. But you two, the other supposedly iconic set from what you're saying from the day, went the opposite direction. No, they did a side. They played an album track and stretched it to 12 minutes.

So, honestly, yeah. So do it one way or the other. Don't just play songs as they are. So this is their set. They played Bohemian Rhapsody, just a 2 minute 20 version. Then Radio Gaga. They played the build-up to Bohemian Rhapsody, and they never rocked out of the end.

Yeah, that's true. The crowd. Good on them. Normally that's a sting thing, but Queen did it at this time. Sting takes 16 hours. Yeah, it's like, oh, hey, Sting, you free for this with a six-hour concert. Oh, yeah, I can do that, just me, yeah? No, no, no other bands are going to be playing.

Okay, well, can I feature on the Phil Collins and the Diostraits track? I don't know why you... Then Queen played Radio Gaga. Then they did the audience participation when Freddie does that. EO! Oh! Which is so fucking cool. That's such a great moment, and people remember that.

Then they played Hammer to Fall. They did crazy little thing called love. Crazy little thing called love. Then they played We Will Rock You just for a minute. And then they finished with We Are the Champions, which is awesome. No fat bottom girls. No. I can't believe it.

This song was actually called We Will Rock You in brackets, like parentheses, for a minute. I think that would be a nice song title. We will rock you for exactly once. For a minute. Yeah. Yeah, I recommend going and watching the set if you haven't seen it before. awesome. Freddie Mercury had the crowd eating out of his hand and that note, a-o-all, during the acopala section came to be known as the note heard around the world.

That's what the media called it. That's certainly what a woman in Belgium said. Hey, L, shut up. Shut up. Shut up. The note heard of around the world. Is it great, isn't it? Is it good or is it awful?

No, I love it. I feel like you're the angel sitting on one show. of Zamets on the other shot again. I was like, nah. Like, media, think of something better. You know, I don't know what you could, but really,

the note heard around the world, the note. The air heard around the world. The vocalisation heard around the world. Midge, one of the gigs organizers, said they took the 18-minute slot because everyone had about the same amount of time

and they did a greatest hits review in 18 minutes. People said they're thinking, my God, I'd forgotten about this one. Oh, and this one. Oh, and this one. Oh, this one's killer too. It was just overkill. He's like, in UltraVox, we didn't have that many hits.

Yeah. It's like you get into like minute 16. Not too much. This is too good. I'm having too good a time. He just hits the revolve button. Oh, whoops. Because they were like they didn't play a lot of their big hits.

That's the thing. They could have played like 10 more hits. Massive hits. Bob Geladoff later said, Queen were absolutely the best band of the day. They played the best, had the best sound, used their time to the full. They just understood the idea exactly

that it was a global dukebox. They just went and smashed one hit after another. It was the perfect stage for Freddie, the whole world. And he could pounce about on stage during we are the champions. How perfect could it get? And that is so beautifully like self-deprikes. Because he is including himself in that list of like the best bands on that day. He didn't be like, it was after me, after us.

Obviously. Like this like this Monday, song. I'm liking Bobby Geldof. Queen knew their place. They didn't sing about days of the week because that's our thing. I mean, Irish people. Live Aid was the first gig that Freddy's long-term lover, Jim Hutton, attended. Imagine that being the first time you see your partner doing his thing.

And you're like, holy shit, you're good at this. Yeah. Oh, my God. I hadn't checked you out yet. I thought you did like covers at the pub or something. Oh, my God. God. He didn't covers at the pub, you know, like Elvis Costello does.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He later wrote in his memoir, this is Jim Hutton. His book's called Freddy and me. He wrote, when he came off, he rushed to his trailer and I totted behind him like a puppy. His first words were, thank God that's over. That's not. Nice to know he could enjoy the moment. Adrenaline still overflowing.

Freddy knocked back a large vodka to calm himself. Then his face lit up. As we stepped out of the caravan, we met a grinning out and John. he said, you bastards. You killed it. I love it. That's so good. Because Elton's coming up soon.

Yeah. How do I top that? It's amazing to think that someone like Elton John's going. Yeah. I can't follow that. Shit. Queen said... You can picture what he was wearing.

I don't know what he actually wore, but I'm picturing him in huge sunglasses. You know, those huge glasses and a big hat. He's gone, you bastards. Or no, what he's wearing that tight white. singlet with a black arm band you bustle. Come on. I don't have time to change.

This is embarrassing. That's why he puts on a big hat and glasses to cover it. Yeah, cover it up. What are we got on hand? That was like, I can lend you some stuff. That's how I found my look. I don't know what I'm doing with these English accents.

I'll have to say it because no one would know that that's what I was trying to do. That was English. Was it? barely sound like the language, let alone the accent. Queen said at Live at has been consistently voted as one of the greatest, if not the greatest and most iconic live performance at a festival or a gig. Consistently out there, people absolutely love it. And you watch it, it's really, really good.

Incredibly hard set to follow. And honestly, if you could do it other than Mr. David Bowie, who kicked off his set with a pre-recorded video of him and Mick Jagger doing dancing in the streets. Yes, right. And was that recorded for this? I'm not sure if it's recorded for this. I've definitely said that it's a famous video. Because I saw, I saw it.

I think Bob Geldof may be organized this. It was for a charity. You'd hope it was. Yeah. Unless he's just like, I made a video. Everyone watch. You kind of want it to be made. I think, I don't know if it was, I'm guessing it was, I didn't know it was played there.

But I remember hearing the story that they were asked to put something together. I think maybe it was Bob Geldof, asked them to put something together. And it might have been Bob Geldof. the story. Sorry to relay another butcher anecdote. Well, you know what this is going, right? Yeah. And he's like, two days later, I'd ask him to, if they could

put something together, two days later they had me the tape, they'd gone out and just made the clip over that weekend, recorded the song. This classic Motown, you know, it was a cover of a classic song? Was it Motown? Dancing the Street originally? Whatever, but... It's written by Marvin Gay.

So it was put together really quickly And they just like slapped it together Just clearly having fun It is a great clip And it's almost like became one of the iconic versions Oh you're absolutely right So the original plan was to form a track together live

With Bowie at Wembley Stadium And Jagger at JFK in Philadelphia Until it was realised that a satellite link Would cause half a second delay It would be impossible Unless one of them mimed their contribution And they refused to do that So they came out with this video

Yeah cool And you're right They just smashed it together That's really nice. Rough mix of the track was completed in just four hours. Love it. Yeah, I think that's so fun. Hey, you probably have both seen that I love that clip of the, uh, they've taken the music

out. It's just sort of like the shoe sounds and then breathing. That's so gross. That's very good. Love it. I do love you any kind of, uh, anytime you get like a music video, something like that, they're just like, yeah, let's just strip the music and like, what's the actual sounds happening? And then it's, yeah, and Mick just going.

just strutting around in classic Mick Jagger stuff he's so funny so that kicked off Bowie set and then he finished with a six and a half minute version of heroes awesome stuff he then introduced a video from CBC television footage from Ethiopia of starving people

he'd seen the footage earlier in the week and insisted it be shown in the show and even offered to give up part of his set if it meant it could run and after it played the charity pledges greatly increased people at home are like, oh yeah, this is more than just a show. I was supposed to be giving. Remembering why.

Yeah, yeah. I just thought I was watching a cool thing. Yeah. Then the Who played? Who? I was waiting for it. That shows, doesn't that show a maturity from me and Zammett? I mean, I'll do bad stuff.

You'll do it. But even I drew a line there. You'll do the band. But not the who. I didn't know that was genuine. But yeah, the Who, yeah, that's... Roger Doltery from The Who said, At the time, we weren't actually a going band.

We'd broken up. So we were kind of at a poor level. That was a bit of a weird, weird, weird show for us. Right. Three weirds. Then Elton John came on, introduced by Billy Connolly. How cool is that? 32 minutes, Elton had the longest set of the day.

32 minutes. Yeah, well. But it's hard to blame him. He played, I'm Still Standing, then Benny and the Jets, then Rocket Man, then Don't Go Breaking My Heart, and he brought out KikiD to do the duet. Then he did, Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me with George Michael and Andrew Ridgely from Wham. So good. Which is cool.

Because that song, I remember as a kid, George Michael, out a hit with it. And it was like a live, the clip that would be played on Saturday mornings or whatever. It's a live version. and he'd get to the, you know, the two-thirds away through the song, and then he'd say, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Elton John, and Elton John comes out and sings a verse. I always thought it was George Michael's song, but yeah, it's the reverse of that.

And it's so funny that George Michael just inverted a thing that had already happened, where he was the special guest on a... And he was massive at the time. Right tune. But even if you watch a bunch of... If you watch the footage, there's people like holding out Wham posters and stuff. So I'm wondering if they were disappointed that WAM didn't get a full set. Then he played another cover of a Motown song originally performed by Marvin Gay.

Can I Get a Witness? And that finished. Elton John's 32 minutes. Then Freddie and Brian May from Queen came back on and did an encore and performed. Is this the world recreated? Right. Was that a planned encore? Is it just because their set went so well?

I don't think it was planned, but Brian later said, because that's already one of their songs, but he later said playing it, it was like we'd written it for. live, and it felt so perfect. And then the final solo act of the day at Wembley is a man that's pretty hard to follow Paul McCartney. He came out and sang Let It Be.

Now, I'm like, of course, Paul played. That makes sense. But at the time, he hadn't performed live for over five years, and apparently was very nervous going out there. And when he launched into Let It Be, his microphone went dead, and the vast majority of the Wembley crowd couldn't hear a thing.

But, of course, it's one of the greatest sing-along songs of all times. so that they just sing. The crowd just sings it until it goes away on. And then when his Mike came back on for the second verse, the crowd absolutely roars. They're like, oh my God. But it was kind of kept a bit of a secret.

Like they sort of snuck him onto the stage and then he starts playing the opening cause of Let it B. The crowd just goes absolutely bananas for it. There's no bigger secret guest that you could have. You know, the Meredith Music Festival, when pre-COVID times I go to every year. And one year they experimented by having a secret slot. And the rumors got out of hand of who was going to be.

People were thinking it was going to be all sorts of things. I reckon some people thought it might have been Paul McCartney and stuff. It ended up being Boblog the third. He's great. But, you know, his set just bowed under the weight of these expectations. People are going to see, why would they do it if. Oh, my God, Nevada are reforming. So they're like where.

If dug him up, he's putting on the stage. All sorts of reformations were talked about and stuff. And they're like, we won't be doing that again. It was unfair on him. And it was just meant that everyone's felt disappointed because very few people like, oh, geez, I hope it's Boblog the third. As much, but if they advertise Boblog the third, there would have been a bunch of people who would have put on a great show.

Like at the back of Beat magazine, do you remember, you used to have like a list of all the upcoming tours, then it would say rumored, and then it would always have stuff like Nirvana, The Beatles. Just a couple of absolutely impossible ones. Near the end, Bob Geldof walks out with David Bowie, Pete Townsend from The Who, and Yaz's Alison Moyet, to sing a reprise of the song for fans

who miss the beginning. They do start of Let it Be again. Bowie starts singing the chorus at the wrong time, but he stops himself, and then he just stands there and smiles and looks super cool, like, oh, whatever. I'm David Bowie. Finally, the London League of Live Aid finished with a curtain call performance of

Do They Know It's Christmas? Yes. What time are you? The best song. The best song. Yes. You know it's Christmas in July. Great song, you're absolutely right.

I got a great anecdote about Huey Lewis and that song. Look, I'll see if we've got time for it. Bob Geldof came out and he dressed the crowd and said, I think you know the next song because it's sold it up $3 million copies. It might be a bit of a cocky. up, but if you're going to cock it up, you might as well do it with two billion people watching you. So let's cock it up together.

But not everyone did know the words. PR Chief Bernard Doherty had to go and photocopy to the now it's Christmas because Bob suddenly before they won, I realize half of these acts don't know the words. Yeah. It's hilarious watching Bono stand there in a top hat straining to see the word. But Bowie starts the song and then everyone joins in and it's pretty awesome. It's pretty awesome. I honestly think, so there's this one and then there's, um, feed the

the world. Is that the other one? We are the children, so is the big charity single that I'll talk about. But I honestly think the best one is the parody of it, which is The Simpsons, we're sending our love down the well. Down that well. That's honestly the best of the three songs. Yeah.

Because we're sending our love down the world. Out of way now. Sting digging. Actually digging the hole. Yeah, it was all so good. One of my fans need me. I've never heard him play any of your record. Shut up, Marge. He's a good digger.

He just, like, came last thing. He just homer grabs him, pushes him aside. Yeah. I remember when Simpsons was good. Oh, so good. Okay, so that's Wembley. Now we could go through J.F.K. Oh, wow.

Okay. So, there's heaps more. There's so many more. I'm just trying to imagine being in the audience for any of this. It's just, like, I don't know at what point. Sure, amazing. These bands are incredible. They are, like, the biggest thing you could probably be doing at that moment in time,

seeing these people live. But maybe like an hour three? I am so tired. Looking at the gig, I'm wondering three things. What are they eating? What are they drinking? Where are they pissing? Yeah, right.

Because people have cammed out the front to get the good spots, and there's like 80,000 people behind them. You're shit in your pants, right? It's really, and then, like, it's a sunny day in England. They're all burning to a crisp. And then apparently, because there's so many people there up the back, you couldn't hear or see that much. A lot of people later said, it was better to watch it at home.

Right. Great thing to say you were there, which is cool. Obviously, you tell your kids and great. kids forever, but I reckon that it would be pretty hard. The best moments would have been when the crowd were singing along. They're sort of, you're getting to hear that. Oh, let it be.

Oh, right. I guess Paul here. Everyone's waking up at the back. Oh. Is Elvis Costello doing or is this Paul McCartney doing? Yeah, yeah, yeah, because I'm impressed by one of them. So over to JFK Stadium in Philly where 90,000 people had packed it on a very hot and sunny day, very hot there as well, even hotter. Okay.

Opening the US segment of the show in Philadelphia wasn't a super. superstar at all. In fact, it was an 18-year-old unknown named David Weinstein. Who? He just graduated high school in Miami, and when he heard about live-aid in Philadelphia, he was determined to get on. What? He hoped he could convince legendary concert promoter Bill Graham to give him a shot.

So before he left, you recorded a demo tape of a few of his original songs at his high school studio with his music teacher. And as the tape started rolling, David uttered the words, Dear Mr. Graham, I would like to begin the live-aid concert in Philadelphia. with this song and then he starts playing. That's ridiculous that that work. He drove to the stadium 10 days before the concert and camped out there in his van. On the stage.

Because he was there so early, he was able to get into the bit where they were going to build the stage. He spotted promoter Bill Graham who asked the kid, what the hell are you doing here? Dangerous Minds. Dot net picks up the story, which I'll link to as well. David explained his intentions and handed over his demo tape. A day or two later, Graham came out to the parking lot where David was camped down in his car. Graham said he liked the material, but that David's singing and guitar playing needed work. Undeterred, David asked if he could play for him right there in the parking lot. Graham left, but a few hours later, someone brought out a prime rib dinner for him.

Surely a good sign. So sending out food to this kid. Graham came out again, this time bringing along a reporter from Rolling Stone, and David played Bob Dylan's All I Really Want to Do. afterwards, Graham said, I'll get back to you. And when he got back to him, it was with a yes. Wow. He was invited to open live aid in front of 90,000 people at the Stalled Out Stadium.

When David called his music teacher to tell him that it was actually happening, his music teacher didn't believe him and advised him to see a psychote. So it sounds like the promoter was like he got a journalist in, Susted out, and he's like, this would be a great story. Look like a day. Well, it is a great story. We're talking about it. I mean, that's like, well done to the kid.

Well done for the promoter. It's cool, isn't it? And he performed the Bob Dylan cover in an original song called Interview. I'm looking forward to the end of this story when Dave said, and straight after that, the record producer said, your name is now Elvis Costello.

And the kid goes, I think that one's already taken. He goes, oh, right. Well, it's funny that you should say that because he actually was told his name wasn't that good, so he changed it to Bernard Watson for the gig. He said, I'm Bernard. So he did retitle himself.

Okay. Has he gone on to do other great things in the future? Bill Graham introduced once, and who said you should use the name Bernard Watson. That's so funny. That's just how... So funny. I hate... Give me your name.

That name's crap. And they didn't have told you what a crap name that is. It's unlike you were tasting it. No. Not for me. No, it's crap. See this, if I could spit out your name, I would. So, Bill Graham goes out there and he introduces him and he says,

We thought we'd give him a shot and let's help him make his dream come true. And the crowd's really warm and good for him. I would be thinking he's being ironic and about to introduce the fact. Like at that show, someone's out, let's give this guy a shot. You're going, oh, who's it going to be? Michael Jackson comes out. It's going to be Brian Ferry against his will. A literal gun to his head.

Noodle and guitar. Yeah, yeah, I'm here. I am sad to report that the 18-year-old's nerves got the better of him. No! He dropped a pick, broke a string, hit a bung note, and later described the performance as a complete disaster. Oh, no. No, I've never felt as much pain as they do right now.

Even so he was very grateful to Bill Graham for giving him a go on the crowd, were very warm and receptive. Oh, that's good. But he hasn't gone on to do that much. He still performs, but... Oh, that's nice. So he's like the most people ever performed it was his first gig

And you can't really Yeah honestly you'd never top that Yeah He claims that he's got the only footage of the set He got it off of a news station You can watch Like 15 seconds of it on YouTube But you can't hear the actual sound

So I can't tell you how good or bad it is But apparently Bernard Watson slash David One scene has the footage But he's like Yeah I'm not going to release that That's just for me. And so that part of the set didn't go out on the telecast, obviously.

Yeah, or it doesn't exist anymore. I'm not sure, yeah. Because the crazy thing is not all of it exists still. That is wild. Because, yeah, people, it's so funny that TV stations used to need the tapes, so they tape over their own shows and stuff. And I'll talk about it later about it, but Geldof made a deal with the axe. You come give your time up, and this is it.

It's a one-off thing. We won't put the recordings out. Some of them, they've since put out like a live-a-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-stands, bands like you two and Queen that absolutely killed it. They're like, yeah, sure, you can put on a DVD. It will look great. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But other people are not so keen. Next up in Pennsylvania was singer-songwriter and activist Joan Baez, who was supposed to actually open the show.

She was introduced by Jack Nicholson. She was introduced heaps of the acts and was kind of the show's MC. That's fun. Apparently, a lot of the performers were star-struck by him, despite their own fame, showing how big of a deal he was in the 80s. Yeah, right. You know, for about 50 years, but sometimes. What were his big movies then?

I guess a lot of, he was just in a lot of big movies at the time. He was, uh, what, he was in? What was that around the time where a few good man and... No, that's his Johnny. Well before few good men, right. What's his Johnny called? The shining. The shining.

The shining. One floor of the cluckoo's nest, surely? Terms of endearment was massive in 1983. Right. One flu, cookies nest was in 1975, so that was big. Yeah, that was, yeah, yeah, yeah. Chinatown, the 70s. Of course.

It's Chinatown, Marge. Easy Rider in the late 60s. So he'd been around for ages already. Right. But, um. Yeah, it's like pre-joker. He was just super cool. And everyone was like, oh, my, a bunch of the.

So funny to think of him as super cool, but I guess, I guess he's. Yeah, like a bunch of the oral histories that are people saying, I just couldn't stop thinking, holy shit. That's Jack Nicholas. That's awesome. It's like, yeah, but you're in the who, or whatever. Wrong continent, Dave. Wrong continent.

Next up was the Hooters, introduced by... You're in the Hooters. The Hooters were there. Introduced by Chevy Chase, slightly less cool. But he would have been massive. He was big, very big, very big. I think the Hooters are the band that Bob Galadoff said, who the fuck are the Hooters?

And didn't want to get him on. And then it's been pointed out since that he has, since that gig opened for the Hooters in Germany, who were massive over there. They played when the wall came down and stuff. So he's since been smaller there. Oh, then, great run here. We've got the four tops. Then Billy Ocean.

Get out of my car, get into my dreams. Something not... Might be the reverse of that. Get out of my dreams. Carabine Queen. I think that's Billy Ocean. I remember my dad hated Billy Ocean when I was really... It was one of my earliest memories.

That is, absolutely. Is your dad hating Billy Ocean? Looking back now, it's just pop, it's just pop, it's just sort of catchy pop music. What's the hate about this? Surely when you get to a certain age, just some music has to grind on your gears, right? I think pop music from when you're just past, you know, past music being, pop music being directed at you, that's when people tend to hate it. Yeah. Unless you're aware of it, because I think I'm getting that age, if I'm not well and truly there.

Yeah. And I think just being aware of it means that I don't let it get to me. But I think people who aren't aware of it are like, what's this crap? Isn't like the music from three or four years ago? I guess you'd call it music. I'd like to apologize to dad and say that Spilly Ocean performed Caribbean Queen.

I think it's a classic tune. How does it go? That's fun. I think I'm something like, I know, Get out of my dreams and into my car. You know that one? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think it's very similar to that. Carapid queen and into my car. Oh, go. I remember that Kappa and... Who was it? Kappa and someone did a promo for their festival show with that song playing and them in roller skates doing a car wash. Does that ring any bells? That sounds fun.

but I don't remember it. You don't remember this vague memory of mine? No, no. Then we've got a big U-turn from Get Out of My Dreams into my car. Black Sabbath came on. We hadn't played together in six or seven years and reformed at this gig with Ozzy Osborne as the front man. In true Sabbath fashion, the band were incredibly hung over.

What a whiplash in terms of time. Yeah, that is a wild back-to-back. Although they would have been sandwiched with. an English set, right? Yes, it would have gone. Somewhere halfway between... What would you say is halfway between Billy Ocean and Black Sabbath? Would you say Shardage?

Smooth operator. That's her song, I reckon, that was her really big one. Oh, she didn't play that this gig, though. Okay. So it goes from her singing, is it a crime, to Black Sabbath playing Children of the Grave. Then Iron Man for seven minutes. And then paranoid.

Six set. Michael DeBarry, who replaced Robert Palmer in the band Power Station, record a classic Aussie story. He goes, I said to Ozzy Osborne backstage, isn't this great man what they're doing for Ethiopia? And he said, what's that? A restaurant. It's so good because you can fully imagine Ozzy saying it.

What's that? A restaurant. You think this is all for a restaurant, Ozzy? We're going to reform with people we haven't. played within seven years for a retro. Just who? What? Sharon.

Sharon. Don't fuck I understand. So good. So as well as pop and rock, metal and heavy music was featured. And next up, we're run DMC, and this was a big moment for hip-hop. In 1985, pop stations were still reluctant to play this new form of music.

And the rappers took to the stage, not with the band, but with DJ Jam, Master Jay. behind two turntables. But the crowd really got into it. They were a bit nervous. They weren't sure how it was going to go. Ron DMC later boasted about their live aid win on 1986's My Adidas,

rapping, stepped on stage at Live Aid, all the people gave, and the poor got paid. That's good stuff. I think the American lineup had a lot more music diversity. We've gone from, like, pop to men. metal to hip-hop within three acts. And then? Whereas nearly all of the English one was pretty much pop, wasn't it? Pretty pop, yeah.

Then we've got Rick Springfield, another Aussie representing. Geez, he timed that well. No, he was bigger in America for longer. He's sort of one-hit wonder in Australia, but I think he had more of a career over there. He ended up playing himself for a whole story arc on Californication, I think, if I'm remembering that right? Yeah, that sounds about right. Then it was REO Speedwagon.

Crosby Stills and Nash after that. Sick. Then Judas Priest, more English metal. Interesting that they had two English metal bands playing on the American line. Maybe they might have been over there either living or touring at the time. And they sweated up a storm in their leather in the hot Philadelphia heat. Singer Rob Halford later a reminisist. My big moment was meeting out with Jack Nicholson, who was a metalhead.

We talk backstage. He continues, the real party was after the event. in a private penthouse suite in downtown Philly. I was standing with Jack and people were going on. Isn't that perfect and a beautiful meeting of raising money for Ethiopia? Yeah. And an after party in a private penthouse suite. Cognitance.

This is beautiful. Yeah, we were raising money for some restaurant or something. Yeah. I was like, one of that restaurants going. But Jack Nicholson invited us to his fucking penthouse. There was a fruit bowl of cocaine. It gets blurry. from there.

We'll pat each other on the bag. We did it. We did it. He said, I was standing there with Jack, Jack Nicholson, and people were going on about the Shining. And I said, you get that all the time, Jack, and he just said, yeah. And then start singing, Breaking the Law, Breaking the Law. That's awesome.

Big Judas song. Yeah, get it all the time. Breaking the Law. So good. Okay. Then Brian Adams. came out. Then the Beach Boys,

Brian Wilson and the gang hadn't played together for a long time at this point. Brian said, we had a lot of bad feelings. Not that you can tell when they... End of sentence.

Seriously, that is the end of the sentence. That's all these... We had a lot of bad feelings. Bad, bad, bad, bad feelings. Well, you can't tell they played good vibrations and they sound pretty good. But he also said the audience

was full of energy and love. We got a lot of love and it was a great night for all of us. It was a pleasure being there. So a lot of bad feelings. A lot of great feelings, too. I didn't know so many of these iconic bands played it. Queen sort of feels like they've overshadowed.

The whole thing, yeah. But it's like these... Beach Boys, yeah. And Sabbath, run DMC. I don't think I'd... It almost feels like it was an English event. You forget that half of it was in America. And then another half it was in Australia.

Because either of the concerts on their own are like one of the best lineups ever, but then you link him up, you're like, oh my God. Yeah. Kurtzaw. Howard Jones. David Weinstein. Then we've got George Thorogood and the Destroyers. Sadly, he did not play one bourbon, one scotch, one beer.

I don't know a song you love, man. Yeah, it's got like a, I've not played it for you before. We were playing in the car and we were driving around the UK. We've played it in England before. And then it just goes for ages and then it just breaks into this final bit. It feels like there's five. minutes of him just talking about getting up in the morning. I can't remember what it's about, but it's just going through all these deep.

The chorus is so deep into the song. Yeah, trying to pay the rent with his landlord and then landlady and then like, yeah. And then finally gets to the front of a bar queue and then he orders. Finally orders the titular one bourbon or one scotch and one beer. Benel and denle and denle and down. He didn't play though. Not enough time. He would have played bad of the bone.

I don't think he did When I was looking at the list I was like What's going on here? He played Did he play rock and roll Christmas A song I discovered

Last Christmas Which starts with the most awkward sort of I guess it's scripted banter It was like Hey man Hey hey man Hey hey what are you up to man

Oh just gonna have a rock and roll Christmas What's that? Let me tell you I'm gonna have a rock and roll Christmas Just like we used to do I'm just going through

Let me go Let me go through his set list. This is it. George Tarragut of the Destroyers. And Bo Didley, first song. Who do you love? Then 59 seconds of tuning, which no one else has that listed in their set.

Then the sky is crying, six minutes. Then George Tarragut of the Destroyers and Albert Collins, five-minute version of Madison Blues. But a minute of tuning. Wow. It sounds like that. Middle song sounds like no one's explained

to George, the concept of rain. What's going on? The sky's crying. The sky is crying. The sky tears are falling on. What's happening? That's good. I write that down. They're actually the band that played before Queen, like in the live link up. Okay. Well, it's good to be, like, before would be like a much better preference. No one remembers you. Yeah.

If you fuck up, it's all good. Apparently they got the call up at the last minute after another act bailed and they had to race to get to Philly. Yeah, right. Who bailed? Do we know? Can we name and shame them? We can't name and shame that one. I do have a list of a few bands that didn't make it. Okay. But in the lineup, then, there was Simple Minds.

And this is Singer Jim Kerr. For probably 89 to 90% of the set, I was thinking, on stage, holy fuck, that's Jack Nicholson. So I don't have much of a recollection. That's so funny that I'll say on it. So much of this lineup seems to be British. They're Scottish, aren't they? Simple Minds or English.

And their mega hit, don't you forget about me? It only been released a few months earlier. So they're absolutely peaking. You did the freeze frame of that song as famous before at the end of Breakfast Club. Exactly. That had all just come out. Then we've got the Pretenders. At the time, singer Chrissy Hind was married to Jim Kerr,

who just played with Simple Minds. So they went one and the other, which is cool. Awesome. Then Santana played. I did not know this. Yeah. Woodstock connection? Yeah, so he played Woodstock along with the Who,

Crosby, Stills and Nash and Neil Young's coming up. So there's a few. And that was, what, 16 years earlier, 17 years earlier. So they were still great. It just feels like lifetimes in between Woodstock, like the 60s and the 80s. Full generation. But 16 years, like you go back 16 years now and that, I mean, this is just old man talk, but it doesn't feel like trends on that have changed that much, you know, music and.

No, I guess. Go back 16. Yeah, no, there's like a 16 years back 2006. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I imagine if I went back there, I'd be like, fuck. Why is everyone wearing boot cut jeans? Yeah.

You're telling me that now the black-eyed peas aren't cool anymore? Yeah, okay. No, there's a fair change. I'm so 2008. You're so 3,000 and late. That hasn't held up. Well, fair call. Yeah, that doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

I need to look at a 2006 top 10 list or something. Nick Kirschor was there, Howard Jones, releasing. Still big. Yeah. I think Kirschore released, wouldn't it be good? down six version. Then Ashford and Simpson played, do you know, them husband and wife duo who wrote

heaps of hits for Motown, including Ain't No Mountain High enough. One of the greatest all-time songs. They performed, it's a really special set to watch, because they performed with Teddy Pendergrass in his first live performance since a car accident a few years earlier that it left him paralyzed from the chest down. So he comes out in a wheelchair,

performs a beautiful song. They performed Diana Ross's reach out and touch somebody's hand And watching it back, it's very emotional. They bring him out. The crowd goes absolutely wild. It's awesome. Really, really cool. Then Cool and the gang perform via a video.

Then Madonna. Where are they? Why are they performed via a video? Not 100% sure where they were. That shows power. Like, they want, you'd think they'd be like, if you can't make it to the venue, you know, you can't play. But Cool and the gang were obviously big enough draw that they thought it was worth it. And then Madonna comes out, who was only two albums in at that time.

So pretty fresh. Only about 10 number one singles probably. Yeah, yeah. But she was massive because the second album in particular, absolutely huge. She was introduced by Bet Midler, who said, Bet Midler's there as well, by the way, guys. Yeah, okay. Jack Nixon, Bet Midler.

Mohamed Ali's over there. He doesn't come out. What is this, the Krusty Telethon? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes. It just seems that it feels like a lot of people didn't know was happening and all their mates are like, well, I guess I should wander along. I guess I should go.

Did Bet, get up and sing, uh, wind beneath my wings? She doesn't, she didn't sing, but she did introduce a few people with Jake Nicholson, which is pretty cool. Okay. But she goes, I want, this is introducing Madonna. I want you to know that I have no idea why I was asked to introduce this next act. A woman who pulled herself up by her brass straps and has been known to let them down occasionally.

She's great. She's a lot like a virgin. She's Madonna! And then Madonna set was also highly acclaimed. A lot of people talk about you two, Queen and Madonna being top picks for the day. She absolutely killed it. Then Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

Fucking hell. It doesn't stop. Then Kenny Loggins did one song, foot loose. Oh, yeah. It would have been tough him choosing between that and danger zone. Oh, I know what I would have picked. I would have been on that highway, baby. Then the cars.

Sick. Then Neil Young did a solo set. Which is cool. Then Power Station came on before that band I talked about. Then the Thompson. Who was Power Station? Oh, they, um. What didn't I mention them before?

I don't, do you know Power Station? No. This one more than the English one is like, I think I've known every act until this point. Oh, I think they were like a super group at the time. A couple of members of Duran Duran were in it. And then they had a couple of different singers. Yeah, right. They had a famous singer who then left.

It was made up of Robert Palmer. You know, Robert Palmer. Former chic drummer. He was, irresistible. I was watching his film clips the other day. It's so funny. It's like this middle-aged man and then just models miming instruments behind him. It's rare.

It's just, I'm like, only whenever that was, could that be? like an MTV hit. It is beautiful. We pass the age of middle-aged people having hits? I reckon, no. Who's middle-aged now and having like pop hit? Oh, Elton John's had two number one hits in the last year. Do you know that?

No. He did Christmas song, maybe. Christmas song with Ed Sheeran and then someone else, I think Pinal. Yeah. He did a song with Pinau. Really? That was huge. They had a number one hit.

Yeah. So he's had two. Panau had a number one hit. in England? I think in America. In America? Yeah, the song is... Panow.

And, uh... Sorry, it's Elton John, Dua Leeper, the Panau remix. Yeah, wow, there you go. And it's, uh... How old is Ed Shearan? Because when he gets to middle age... Oh, yeah, that's true. He'll still be cranking him.

I'm thinking of, um, like, um, who's the NERD front man again? Ferrell. Farrell. He, like, he had hits into his, like, at least into his 40s. Yeah. Madonna maybe did it as well. But, yeah, it doesn't seem like it's that common anymore, but I mean, I couldn't tell you what the top 10 songs right now are. I wouldn't have a clue.

I wouldn't have a clue. Maybe they're all by. I'm like, when was the last, like, I can kind of think of middle-aged man with, like, modelled behind him? I only think of like blurred lines. Oh, yeah. That's a recent, that's a classic recent one, right? Yeah, that's true. Would he have been, and he was middle-aged?

He probably would have been Robert Palmer aged. He was going through a mid-life crisis. Yeah, because Robert Palmer was, he probably was a. even that old, was he? Well, he died in 2003 and he was only 54 when he died. Yeah, right. But yeah, so to answer your question, Power Station was him, the drummer from Sheik, and then the bass player and guitarist from Duran Duran, two Taylors.

So, yeah, they came out, performed without Robert Palmer, the other guy, Michael DeBarry, replaced him. Then the Thompson twins came on, who were sort of peaking at that time, a very 80s band. They also performed in the Madonna set. Then Eric Clapton came out. His Layla was also acclaimed. Right. Another English act. Then Phil Collins made it to the gig.

To be the only performer to sing live at both live had concerts. He says to the crowd, I was in England this afternoon. Funny old world in it. And then he starts playing. He just did like a hymn piano set. He was introduced by Jack Nicholson and Ben Midler, which is pretty cool. Then it's time to discuss Led Zeppelin. Okay.

The three surviving members of Led Zeppelin reformed. This is five years after their drummer, John Bonham had died. And they called the band off then. Two drummers filled in for Bonham. One was Phil Collins. So he did a third set. He's already done a medley with Sting. Now a solo set.

Now he's playing drums. Because he played on Robert Plant's, the singer of Led Zeppelin's first two solo albums. So they knew each other well. And then they also had Tony Thompson play on one track. Phil stuck around. He introduced Led Zeppelin and then gets... He goes, my mates, you might know him.

It's Robert Plant. etc etc Why have I gone blank on Jimmy Page John Paul Jones The performance was criticised for Plant's Horse voice Oh

No Is that fucking horse up there That fucking mane Jimmy Page Was criticised for his obvious intoxication And out of tune guitar A lack of rehearsal And poorly functioning monitors

Ah that rules Plant described the performance As a fucking atrocity for us, it made us look like loonies. Oh, this is great. Okay, this is for charity. It's going to be one of the biggest things that the world's ever seen. Are you drunk as shit? Yes.

I am off my face. Yes, I am. I'm looking forward to performing for this restaurant. Oh, he told me it tastes fucking good. They use a bread or something. You use that instead of like a fork. Very good. I hate forks.

Fuck them. This is from a music website I found not sure you're familiar as I'm, I think it's called wikipedia.org. I think I've heard of that one. Yeah. Wow, okay, I haven't. You haven't?

Okay. Wait, wukypedia or wiki? Wikipedia. I think. Another wookie one. Oh, okay. I'll look into that. Page later criticized Collins' performance,

Phil, because Phil's on drums saying, Robert told me Phil Collins wanted to play with us. I told him that was all right if he knows the numbers. But at the end of the day, he didn't know anything. We played a whole lot of love. And he was just there bashing, away cluelessly and grinning. I thought that was really a joke.

Oh, fuck. Look, he's jet lagged as shit, you know. Give him a break. But having read some stories about this, it sounds like everything went wrong. And Jimmy Page is just scapegoating Collins. For sure. Because Collins responded, it wasn't my fault. It was crap. I would have walked off. I could have walked off. If I could have walked off, I would have. But then we'd be all talking about why Philons walked off during live aid. So I just stuck it out. I turned up and I was a square pig in a round hole. Robert was happy to see me, but Jimmy wasn't.

Yeah, that's what it sounds like Jimmy paid from when he rocked up was like, who's, why is this fucking guy here sort of thing? And Phil Collins had played drums in Genesis, so he's like a famous drum. He's known as one of the greatest drummers of all time. He's a really good drummer. It's funny that he's sort of known as having some of the, the cheesiest pop songs all the time. He's also technically a very good drummer here.

Led Zeppelin, they're one of the ones that have blocked broadcasts of the performance and withheld permission to be included on DVDs. But you can watch your pretty low-res version on YouTube, and the comments are brutal. And I will read some of them now. You know what's going to be bad when his voice is training just to get the crowd amped up before he even seems? He's like, hey, Philan, I'll be here.

There's another separate comment. The fact that Jimmy Page had the audacity to blame this atrocity on Phil Collins astounds me. Another one. The last person I'd expect to butcher a Jimmy Page solo is Jimmy Page. Someone wrote, Jimmy is so high he doesn't need a stairway to reach heaven, which they did play. And finally, if they ever make it Led Zeppelin Biopic, Live Aid will definitely not be their ending scene, which it is in the Queen, the Queen one, Bohemian Rhapsody. They played rock and roll, whole lot of love, and then a nine-minute version of stairway to Heaven, which is going quite...

On paper. Yeah. It's hard to beat that as a set. And it's going quite, stairway's not too bad until it gets to the solo and he just starts going for it. Whank, won't. You even see Robert look at him like, what the hell? He says, no, Jimmy, no. I am playing with one of the greatest rock and roll guitarists ever.

Oh my God. Okay, then Crosby Stills Nash and Young come out. They've done their separate set. Amazing. And they come together. they were they uh calmed the crowd down after let's have like the live crowd i imagine probably wouldn't have even noticed that led zepplin were butchering it because they're singing along yeah yeah crowd goes absolutely wild for it so if it wasn't televised you know because it was

they were one of the most hyped and anticipated acts yeah because they'd been broken up for five years probably most people thought they never play together again but and they were huge but then durand durand came out that that's like being anxious about that can lead to you doing things that aren't going to help your performance. Sounds like none of them were prepared. And you wonder if it was, I mean, who knows, but it feels like maybe they were nervous and so nervous that they got either too high or didn't rehearse or whatever. Or maybe I'm, that's a cop out, I don't know.

But that's what I'm thinking. If I'm feeling the pressure of that build up, maybe I'll just have one day beers. Well, I'll have a little sherry You're like chicken sherry Or some weird drink from the bottle Yeah Well let's not forget that in the Woodstock episode Santana

Was waiting side of stage for so long That he just took her these hallucinogenes That absolutely kicked in during his set And it's like highly acclaim That's true He killed it Is there footage of that though? Was that going out live?

Yeah, yeah I guess it depends what you know It was imbiting in so it's like psychedelics Yeah, it helped the performance He thought his guitar was a snake He saw snake But then half the crowd were, three quarters of the crowd at that gig were also on the trip with him. So they were happy to see anything.

Then Duran Duran come out who were huge at the time. Now they're English band? They'd just done the Bond theme, View to a Kill. And there was a lot of anticipation for their set. They were also highly amped up. Young crowd, very happy to see them. But really the band was in turmoil. They drove in silence to the gig.

They were not getting on. During the chorus of a view to a kill, singer Simon Le Bonn, inadvertently hits an off-key falsetto note, and media outlets called it the bum note heard around the world, as opposed to Freddie's note around the world. That's just a cruel. Lebon later described it as the most embarrassing moment of his career. I've watched it.

Again, it's on YouTube, but honestly, if you haven't pointed it out, I wouldn't have noticed. It's not that bad. It's like, a view to a kill. Who cares? They play for 18 minutes or something. Who cares? Yeah, it's so funny.

It's nice to know that that feels like a real, like, Twitter and YouTube generation thing to do. But it's, it's nice to know that humans have always sucked. Oh, yeah. You know, piling on this tiny mistake. Yeah.

And everyone going, well, that sucks. I'm writing a story about it. Simon LeBond fucked up his life. What a big fucking loser. And we joke about it. Like, he's gone from the coolest man in the world to being, like, so uncool. Live Aid wasn't intended to be a,

Farewell performance for Duran Duran. They only wanted to take a break after years of nonstop touring, but they didn't get back together again until 2003. That's how badly it went. Wow. Because, you look, mate, because that one note. Yeah. Let's just take a break.

Let's just see other bands, see how it goes. The guitarist actually blamed Phil Collins for their set. It was backstage, but. Backstage, fucking when the microphone's going, ugh. That wasn't me. then Patty LaBelle, then Hall & Oates, they did a pretty sweet set, then Mick Jagger, Hall and Oates actually stuck around to be the backing bad for Mick Jagger.

John Oates described the rehearsal of this. We rehearsed with Eddie and David, and then Mick came in to go over his stuff. He went into the entire Mick Jagger routine, but this was in a room with nobody except us. He started running around the stage, flapping his wings like a chicken, and doing the Mick Jagger facial things, as if there were 100,000 people in the room. The room was empty. It's so funny to imagine. You know, they're going, trying to keep a straight face.

Yeah, it's he like, I got a, whoever's watching, I can't drop my guard. Yeah. This is, this is my mask. Yeah. Oh, look silly if I don't do this. And that, like, they would have had the genuine version of that musicless film clip. Yeah. Yeah.

Just, like, I just. Mick did a few songs solo and then Tina Turner came out for a duet. I know. She'd cancelled her own shows to be there. Amazing. I cannot believe this list keeps going. And there was a famous wardrobe malfunction moment where he accidentally, in inverted commas, unclips her skirt.

Oh, my God. Many have speculated that it was planned. Very similar to the Janet Jackson moment. That's right. Scandalous. Okay. Then... If they didn't mean to unclipped a skirt,

why was she wearing pants underneath? Huh? Tell me that. Doesn't make any sense. Then Bob Dylan came out. Also, people were... People were fawning over him, too. Like, apparently people were, like, getting photos and, like...

Because he's such a superstar, which always made me laugh that in the... When he was in the travelling wheelbreaths with all those superstars, George Harrison Roebs and etc. True. But apparently... Cut that Tom Petty. Tom Petty and Jeff Lynn. Yes.

I call him the E-L-O guy. But they're all superstars, especially a beetle, George Harrison. But apparently they were all like, oh my God, we get to play with Bob Dylan. Oh, I heard it was the Roy Orbison. I think Jeff Lynn loved Roy Orbison. Right. He was his childhood hero. Can we get him in the band?

But with Bob Dylan, and I think even on day one, Bob Dylan said something like, look, I know you... No, ELO, the O and ALO actually is a tribute to Roy Orbison. The big O. El O. But yeah, I think on day one, they had to say something like, look, I know we're all in awe of you, Bob Dylan, but we've got to be equal here. And he went, oh, you're happy to pay with me? Well, I'm pretty happy to play with you guys too.

It's like, fuck. It was George Harrison. I know, but he was like. But yeah, I know George Harrison was definitely, I was reading recently about how. George Harrison was like, when him and Bob met early on, George was like, how do you write these lyrics? I don't understand how you come up with him. And Bob was like, how do you know all these chords?

And how do you put them together? Like they'll both go and like, you're a genius. Interesting. Which is nice. It's much nicer when it goes both ways, I think. So Bob Dylan came out. He was the headlining sort of with the last. solo act like Paul McCartney was on there.

And he was backed up by Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards from the Rolling Stones. So pretty cool. Then the US concert finished with all the artists on stage to sing, We Are the World. The charity single written by Michael Jackson and Lana Ritchie under the name USA for Africa that had sold 20 million copies. Wow. Okay. So do they know what's Christmas comes out and they go,

we've got to do one in America too. So a few months later, they did We Are the World. I found the Hewilu's store if you're want it. I do. I do. I wonder what happened. It makes sense now because he was part of this song. Yes. Okay. So I haven't read it and I'm like, I hope, I hope it's worth it. But it's not too long anyway. Okay. So this is from eW. But this is quoting directly from Huey talking to EW. And it's him talking about Michael Jackson, I think. I stood right next to him. I won't do the voice, the Huey, the beautiful gravel. I want to do an episode about Huey Lewis

what I know. Fascinating story. I stood right next to him on the solo lines because he had the line right after. Holy shit. They've added that bit out. I stood right next to him on the solo lines because I had the line right after he did. We had to share a position there for a couple of hours and we chatted. I think maybe they're because there were so many of them, they might have had to share mics and stuff. He said lots of nice things about my songs and he knew.

our stuff and he was just sweet sweet sweet you know quincy jones was producing and they wanted to make one full sweep of the lead vocals and they kept getting about halfway and somebody would forget the words and they'd stop again and so we never got a chance to rehearse our lines down at our end as it were basically it would keep stopping just before them so everyone in the lead-ups rehearsing every time and then it stops and like oh fuck when it the pressure is really on when it gets to us slowly uh uh So I sort of stood up for that. I said, hey, can you go all the way through at least so I can rehearse? Stevie Wonder over there has sung his part four times.

Having the crack in Stevie? And Michael thought that was really funny. So he said, yeah. And the very next pass, we did the whole thing. How did it sound, though? Yeah, yeah. And the next pass, we did the whole thing. We made it all the way.

clearly it was the good version and I saw Quincy telling the engineer. Okay, let's do another. And Michael had his headphones off and Quincy says, all right, yeah, okay, let's do another one. And Michael, very concerned, grabbed my hand and says, they're going to save that last one, aren't they? Because he knew that was the one. Obviously, what can be said about this guy?

Super talented and super fabulous and super sweet at the same time. I mean, I think there's some other things we can say about it. A couple of things. He was very comfortable. This is not. The worst story we're telling him. That's it. He was very comfortable.

He was just really nice. It's just a Michael Jackson praise fest. Michael was just a really sweet guy. That's the story. He was a sweeter. Oh no. Do you want to push? I mean, yeah.

He doesn't you want to go with? That's how well, Huey told the story when I heard it. I'm like, huh. What a good story. You really changed your opinion on Michael Jackson. Sure, there are rumors and allegations and maybe some facts. But I won't be commenting anything until I hear Huey comment on. I can't believe.

He told the story like it was important and I got sucked in by that. Just this vague memory. Anyway, Huey, maybe I won't do an episode. Oh my God, it'll go over six hours and we won't learn anything. Look, at least we can know that Huey is a very good judge of character. He was good at baseball as a kid, Huey. All right. This episode's gone long enough

Without Huey's childhood Where to the final It's the final number Edit out If you could go back Edit out me bringing it up in the first place And then Could you edit out me cycling back to it

As I'm reading down I'm like holy shit I don't think this story goes anywhere Surely there's a point Surely there's a point They've written about it I've heard him tell it He's re-told it to EW

They're printing it You're like There's got to be a twist In this killer on example A bloke met another bloke. A bloke met another bloke. They recorded a song. Michael Jackson laughed at his lame joke.

Steve, you wonder over there. And it's also Hughie going, yeah, hey, Michael Jack. He said he knew and liked my songs. Yeah. You know, this guy, he likes me too. Sorry, everybody for wasting all your time. We're so happy to hear you realise in real time that the story is nothing. Oh, my God.

I'm sweating. Okay, so the final track at LiveAid. Guys, let me just stop your story. I've found a really good anecdote. That's right. Because I've got so many of Rock's best anecdotes in this report. You're like, let me just top that. Let me just top David Bowie's Blue Helicopter.

He's one of those, sort of like Phil Collins where a lot of people shit on him. And I always have this weird instinct to be like, even though they're super rich famous people, I'm like, you know, I'm getting on this underdog. I'm going to big him up. He needs it. He needs you in your corner. This guy who's been number one multiple times in multiple decades. And then I think, if anything, I think I've heard his legacy. I'm trying to retell that tale.

What a tale. What a tale. Memorable. We could tell that tale. What a storyteller. The time he stood next to Michael. Amazing. To be fair, if I'd done that, I'd be, that'd be my story forever.

That I'd say next to Michael's joke. But anyway. Final track. the world, we are the children, blah, blah, blah. So. Now, you hate the Christmas one. What do you think of this? They're pretty similar.

Yeah, it's not as, I think it's better than the Christmas one. It's not as gimmicky, I feel. Yeah, the Christmas one is a bit like, do they know it's Christmas? Like, I don't know. It just seems, it's very. But like, even beyond the lyrics, you don't like the song itself, you know, the, I don't, no, I don't love. I don't love it. I think we're the words better, but I think we're sending a love down the well is the best one.

Yeah. Sadly. All the way down. So great. But on stage for the closing number, it's pretty amazing people. This is some of the people that came out. Lionel Richie comes out. And Harry Belafonte.

Absolutely legend. What's he? He's like a... Dun dun dun da. Yeah. A banana song. What's that song? Yeah, that one.

That's Harry Bellafonte. Banana boat. Yeah. The banana boat song. How are you doing? Shee, shake. Shake. Shake.

get all the time. Is that him? Dan, Dan, Dan, Damana. Yeah, he was the first when I looked him up. So, he did sort of... So did MJ perform at any of these by the by?

No, which I'll talk about. Okay, okay. He was, um... Okay, okay. Harry Belafonte, he's been around forever. He's still alive, age 94, and he's been great with civil rights and stuff. But his breakthrough album,

Calypso, released in 1956, was the first million-selling LP by a single artist. Wow. Which is an amazing claim. But he comes out, already an absolute legend 35 years ago, but also Sheena Easton, Peter Paul

and Mary, Bill Graham, the legendary promoter, Diane Warwick, Mick Jagger, Darrell Hall, Graham Nash, Kenny Loggins, Patty LaBelle, Chris. Chrissy Hind and Tina Turner. Wow. And Cher made it.

She rocked up and of course they let her on. Well, of course. That's a fair lineup for a sing-along. I love Kenny Loggins reminiscing about the good times. I was on in the closing song, but shit, I don't even remember what it was. Maybe a Beatles tune? All I remember was, what's her name? That woman with the voice of God.

It was her turn to sing and she was screaming on the microphone. It was so loud, so overwhelmingly loud. There were at least 12 mics on stage and the sound guy had to figure out what mic she was on to turn it down. It was hilarious. He's talking about Patty LaBelle who commented, what can I say? I got the spirit.

And if you watch it, she is so fucking loud. She's got such a big voice. Also, you can hear Diane Warwick, even though her microphone is off. Wow. It's so loud.

But yeah, Patty LaBelle, huge voice. So it was an truly incredible line up across the world, but some artists missed out. Billy Joel, Boy George, Waylon Jennings, Chris Christophobos,

Tiers for Fears and Paul Simon were all included in initial promotional material for the Philadelphia concert. They were them as well, but they didn't appear. Where were they? Where'd they go? Just for a range of reasons they didn't make it. They were all actually packing like food packs into a Concord flight. No, actually, yeah. Yeah, actually helping.

That's nice. Bruce Springsteen also didn't play, which he later regretted. He said, I simply did not realize how big the whole thing was going to be. Right. Prince didn't want to perform live, but he sent in a video. And his drummer. Sheila Easton. Sheena Easton.

Sheena Easton. Sheila Easton. The Aussie cover. Sheila. And Michael Jackson declined to perform, releasing a statement that he was busy recording in the studio and didn't want to turn his back on his responsibility to the people he was working with. Oh, half a day off. So he just didn't show up.

Okay. Probably hanging out with Huey. Yeah. Re-living the good times. Remember a couple months ago when I said that about Stevie Wonder? God, that was fun. Yeah. Yeah, you know how you like my stuff?

You know you know me? It's good in it. Yeah. Yeah. Hey? Hey? Yeah. A few of these acts like I've played at Meredith,

like, Sheena Easton did. Sheik did, or at least... Is it a front man for Sheik? Nile's Rogers. Niles Rogers. Did Sheik play? It was just... It was just the drama was in Power Station.

Right. That sort of... But Nile Rogers, I think he... It's wild that I've seen any... I mean, I've seen Paul McCartney live. It's a while that I've seen some of these bands. One degree of separation from me being... But Nile Rogers did perform with the Thompson Twins and Madonna.

So he did... Oh, right. Yeah, he wrote one of a... He wrote one of Madonna's big hits, didn't he? So he was a feature... At Meredith, Noel Rogers, did a medley of songs he wrote for other people, or produced, and maybe produced. and maybe produced. That's so cool.

And it was just like, just hit after hit after it was wild. And you sort of, when you're hearing him, you're like, oh, I can really see how, and he would have been,

because it was around the time, what was his big album with, that French band, Duff Punk. Okay. Get Lucky. He was, you know,

he was on that album. Okay. You familiar with this band? Not really. Duff Punk. That was quite a big band. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know of them.

God damn it, Sammy. See how it comes from is useful. And how about Bob Geldof? Well, the whole experience changed his life and not totally for the better. One of the most famous moments of the concert happened seven hours in at Wembley where Galdof gave an infamous interview in which he swore on the BBC. He's sitting on a couch next to the king of squaring Billy Connolly at the time, which makes it even funny to me.

But presenter David Hepworth from the BBC conducted the the interview, had attempted to provide a list of addresses to which potential donations should be sent. Geldof interrupted mid-flow and shouted, fuck the addresses, let's get the phone numbers. It's actually passed into folklore that he yelled at the audience, give us your fucking money, but although Geldof has stated that that phrase was never uttered, and it's just one of those things that people remember. Due to his aris accent, the profanity was stated to be misheard as fuck and focking, respectively.

Scandalous. What did he actually say? He definitely says, fuck the addresses, let's get the phone numbers. Because they're saying, this is where you can send checks, and he's saying, fuck the checks, call up and give us your credit card details now. He asks people at home, he does this like emotional plea, which is quite famous. He asked people at home not to go to the pub, but to stay in and give them the money instead as there are people dying now. So he says, so give me the money after the outburst, giving an increase to 300 pounds per second. So it really, really worked.

Okay, okay. Real laying on that guilt. People really gave him their fucking money. Yeah. Yeah. They do. And it all went well. And he put the gig on after performing himself on stage, he had the thought that every person I'd ever met in my life in the world was probably watching.

Like, what a weird thought to have. Because everyone's watching this gig. And you put it together, so everyone's watching it. It's amazing that not everyone did a bum note like Solomon Le Bon. Yeah. If you watch it back, there's a few, like, you just hear like random feedback for no reason. and stuff. Yeah,

well, it sounds like nearly every set had some issue. Yeah, because they didn't have proper sound checks and stuff like that.

Yeah. After the show's success, Bob was referred to in the media and sometimes still is as Saint Bob, Monica, which he absolutely hates.

Is it like an ironic sort of? No, it's because, well, maybe it has become that now, but I think at the time people were like, you've done so much for charity,

your saint Bob. Yeah, imagine, yeah, if someone who felt like doing doing something this wouldn't enjoy being the centre of it.

And he liked how successful the show had been. He thought he'd done a good thing. But also I felt that afterwards he wasn't able to be a rock or pop singer anymore. People in the media acted as if that was beneath him. It seemed petty and meaningless by comparison to saving the world. But he just wants to go out and write songs and, you know, perform in clubs. But they're like, oh, why are you doing that? Why don't you go over and do more charity stuff?

And he found really trapped by this new vision of him. He later said, for a while, I was bewildered. I didn't have much money at the time. It impinged entirely in my private life. It probably ended up costing me my marriage. Because, yeah, the media went wild for him, following him everywhere, he went for a while. With an estimated audience of 1.9 billion people in 150 nations,

that means nearly 40% of the world population at the time tuned in to watch live. That's ridiculous. And a whole lot of money was raised. It's been estimated at 150 million pounds was raised, which is nearly half a billion pounds in today's money. But where did the money go? Well, went to the starving. Children, right?

Well, that has been debated over the last 36 years. Oh, my God. What? You mean this thing that was maybe ill-conceived? Didn't it work? I am shocked. The BBC World Service reported that a certain proportion of the funds were siphoned off to buy arms.

Oh, my God. For the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front. But in 2010, they issued a full apology saying there was no evidence that that ever happened. Okay. Oh yeah. Just reported on a hunch. Yeah, sorry, right there.

Sorry. Because that's what I have heard of. It was like, yeah, this whole thing was like, yeah, went towards arms. But they just made that out. Well, former BBC chairman, Michael Gray, commented, we're very glad to finally be able to reassure all the millions and millions of people around the world over 20 odd years who have given millions of pounds to band aid and live aid to relieve suffering. That, of course, the money did not go to arms.

That's what you said. That's like 20 years. People have died. People have given money and then gone on to. die, thinking being like, oh man, I helped a terrible thing. And they're like, yeah. Yeah. Some people still argue that, like, a percentage of money had to be given to local people,

local fixes and stuff like that to get the aid there. Yeah, right. That kind of thing. And Bob Geldof at the time even said, after it said, look, I even said at the time that I was prepared to shake hands with people on both sides. I didn't care who, which devil I shook a hand with, as long as we get the money to the people. And he thinks that they did feed the people.

Michael Burke, you remember the BBC reporter who'd inadvertently kicked the whole thing off with his report. He missed the whole show because he was being tear-gast in South Africa at the time. That took a turn. He's like a hardcore for foreign correspondent. But in 2004, he told The Guardian the money raised would have saved about 1 to 2 million lives. Live aid made a terrific difference. But actually, the key thing it did, which utterly dwarfed Band Aid and Live Aid, was to force the change of policy in the EU

and particularly in the UK and America, the public opinion that they mobilised and represented was what counted. So after this, giving to third-build nations sort of put it as a front agenda for these advanced economies. And that was a big part of Live Aid's legacy. According to one aid worker, a larger impact than the money raised for the Ethiopian famine is that, quote,

humanitarian concern is now at the center of foreign policy. for the West. So, you know. Okay. All right. Well, it'd be nice to think that's true. You'd hope. Well, you hope so.

And the concert became a cultural cultural touchstone for that generation and sort of everyone remembers where they were sort of moment kind of thing. And the artists did allow it of it too, it should be pointed out, with Madonna, Phil Collins, Queen and you two, smashing the charts after the concert. All their albums took up the top 40 after that.

I wonder, Bruce was kicking himself. It's such a funny thing to say. I didn't realize I was going to be really big. It could have been really good for me. I would be nice to help this, you know, fledging restaurant that I hear wasn't doing well. But no, what could it have done for me? What could this charity event have done for me?

Bruce Springsteen. I don't know if you heard about me. Hi, my name is Bruce Springste. I feel like it would have been made for him. Like he's... He would have crushed it. Yeah. With his messages as well, yeah.

He would play live more than anyone. imagine and so gig hard and sort of thing. Gig harden. But, yeah, I don't think he would have been hitting any bum notes. No. Durant, Simon Le Bonn, hang your head in shame. The most embarrassing moment of my life. It was heard around the world, so, you know.

Many more charity concerts formed afterwards, including Farm Aid that was launched in 1985 to support American farmers. Bob Dylan actually controversially at the time. He's on the mic saying, hey, maybe we could also give some of this money to American farmers who are doing it tough. And Bob Galdof's standing there going, what the fuck? Who said that? Bob Dylan. But him and Neil Young and a bunch of people started this thing later.

He said that on Mike. Yeah, yeah. Galdof himself was added again in 2005 with Live 8, which was 10 simultaneous concerts held on the 2nd and 6th of July. Live 8? Live 8. As in number 8 and then it was 10. Was it like 2008? I'm confused.

It was the... Do you not understand this pun? It was to do with the G8. Okay. Yeah, it was not the time. It was trying to get people to donate more money. She should have done in eight locations. That would have been easier to remember and made more sense.

And the G8 leaders pledged to double 2004 levels of aid to poor nations from 25 billion to 50 billion by the year 2010. So it was about raising money at the concerts, but also pressuring politicians. against. That's a lot of cash. How much of that is going towards arms? About 85, 90%? Okay, okay, okay. Which still leaves $5 billion.

Okay. And that's pretty good. That's a lot of, that's a lot of tomatoes away. So not all of the concert exists, like I said before, because Gailoff promised the artist at the time. This is one off deal. And, yeah, some of it doesn't exist anymore. And even the Philadelphia concert, they didn't multi-track it.

They just got a stereo mix of it, so they can't remix it. Right. Just a bit of a moment, so that's why they can't take out the feedback and stuff. But a lot of it's online. I've had a great time watching hours over this week. And I'm sure I'll be linking and showing photos and stuff on the social media. But if you're interested, yeah, check out Queen and you two and Madonna. And then also the final numbers of each concert are cool because you're like, is that blah, blah.

And then a bunch of other people with 80s perms that you probably won't recognize. But Geldof has said, just to finish, we took an issue that was nowhere on the political agenda. and through the lingua franca of the planet, which is not English, but rock and roll, we were able to address the intellectual absurdity and the moral repulsion of people dying of want in a world of surplus. Yes.

Yeah, it's funny. It feels like it's become like people are very cynical about it all now, but it sounds like, I mean, from what you said, it sounds like it was a really good thing and had a really positive effect. Really positive, and like, yeah. It's so funny that he's become, I feel like he's almost become a punchline.

Maybe not anymore. I don't think you don't hear people talking about boggled off that much anymore. But I remember years ago, you know, sketch shows that have impersonations of him and stuff and they'd be pretty grotesque. Yeah. I don't know if he, maybe that's, I don't know what happened in the later years, but it sounds like he did a pretty cool thing. Yeah, it was really successful.

He seems like, yeah, he seems like a nice guy. He's like, right, I watch this thing on the tally. let's get all our mates together and raise some money and then he just like He didn't care He's like I don't give a shit about your ego We're doing this for this particular course

It sounds like to be organised You needed someone like that Who was just like took charge Yeah you wouldn't get that many people involved Otherwise And it's like it snowballed from him lying Bowie's involved You're going to be involved

Hey Bowie Elton's involved You're going to be involved But so he did a lot of good But what you got to remember is If it wasn't for Bob So I'm And Robin would never have done that bum night. No, Simon.

Simon, that fucking gelda. Ruin my career. I was doing bond themes. I was killing him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we would have, like, you know, not had this terrible reunion of Led Zeppelin. Yeah, that's right.

Robert Plains also like, Jesus. Well, Zammett, that brings us to everyone's favorite section of the show. Now, you're feeling it for Jess. So you got to, she does a jingle. I'll tell you what the section's called, and then you just turn into a little jingle, okay? Okay. The section is called fact quote or question.

Fact quote or question. Ding. That's good. He always remembers the ding. That was good. I think that's better. Jess always does it the tune of Widget the World Watcher, which probably isn't a reference. Not at all.

I don't think that anyone on this, I've never met anyone on this planet knows. Watch is the Who now? Widget the World Watcher. That's how it goes. Anyway, so this is basically the time when we thank all these people who are supporting. And equally, maybe not. Let's not say equally. Okay.

But they support something else, which is this show. And it helps keep it run. It wasn't for these supporters. We wouldn't, this show wouldn't happen. So we thank you all very much. I just had this thought just before that it would be, I mean, it would be maybe be embarrassing, but for how unsuccessful it could be. But we do some sort of sans pants, do go on, podcast.

For charity, but we do it. Pod aid. Live pod. On a barge in the international waters. We record a 16-hour podcast on a barge. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, anyway, I'm just putting, I'm planning to see if Bob's listening.

Let's not think about this time two years ago. We did do a charity geek for the bushfires. That's true. Yeah. We all came together and send money down that way. We did send money down that well. Down the world. All the way down.

So, yeah, we just basically thank a few of our great supporters. If you want to support the show, you can do so via dugompod.com or Patreon.com slash dugompod. Would that be right, Dave? That's absolutely correct. Nailed it. That was full muscle memory. I sort of blanked out as I said it. So you can get all sorts of rewards if you jump on and support us there, depending on the level. What are some examples there, Dave?

We put out three bonus episodes a month. Can you believe this, I'm impressive? I'm putting out a report this week if you want to get another one. It is a space-themed one. That was really fun to record. Which is really, really fun. But also we put out once a month, we'll go through a Brendan Fraser movie with phrasing the bar. And yeah, but there is at least one bonus report a month.

It's a lot of fun. You get to find out about live shows before anyone else and get discounts. There's a Facebook group. We'll give you the shout-outs that we're about to do. And it's just, we just appreciate you. That's another bit thing you get. Our appreciation. I think that's one of the most beautiful things.

Now, I start with the fake word or question bit. Is that right? Absolutely. We have four each week. I forgot about this when I was setting it all up before. How funny is that? I said, you are so well organized. I was about, you got things color coordinated.

It's all in different columns. I'm like, holy shit, that's impressive. Maybe I just take about that. Yeah, maybe. The color doesn't mean shit. All right. Well, so this section, people get to give us a factor quota of question. If they're on the Sydney-Sharmberg Deluxe Memorial level or above,

I don't read these out until I read them out. So I'm not all that organized, but I think it's fun to just do it live. That's what Bob would do. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Send us your fucking money. Fuck it. We'll do it live.

It's all good. Do an Irish accent, though. Irish. Or Irish. Send us your fucking money. I'm so sorry. Shandr for fucking morning. Yeah, thanks, Samut.

Oh, man, I preferred maths, to be honest. I'm not, I don't feel like it. What were you doing there? Sandrish, your fucking mom. You're fucking, you're fucking, you're fucking, you're fucking, man. Are you doing that? I'm like Garth from Wainswell doing an Irish accent. I'm the man of a thousand noise.

It's not a thousand accents. So the first one comes from Tessa Chilcott, and they also get to give themselves a title. And Tessa has given herself the title, Queen of Yorns, Brackett. I have trouble going to sleep, bracket. Now I'm going to yawn, because you said Yon, and hopefully some listeners are also going to Yon now as well, if you have the same thing that I do. And I've made Matt Yon as well. Isn't that good? So we recently added a fact, quite a question.

You can also give us a brag or a suggestion. And Tessa has opted for a brag. Oh, love a brag. Good luck. And Tessa writes, it's not really a brag or a suggestion or a question. There are a few facts, and I suppose you could quote me. Okay. We will.

Why'd you call it a brag then, Tessa? Why did you lie to me like that? We'll see what goes. We'll see what goes. I wanted to say thanks for the last two years for continuing to post episodes during the endless lockdowns and uncertainty. This one isn't about listen now, obviously. I'm guessing you're referring to do go on especially when you were in Melbourne capital of lockdowns

you know this is Amit we have the world record Yeah it rules It fucking slaps is what it does How cool is that Yeah I love a world record No one No one lockdown more than us

Um Yes You certainly couldn't have been feeling up That whole time You know what You're right I work in an emergency communications centre for ambulance answering triple zeros, which is our 911, or what's the English, British one? 99999.

999. And what other countries were people? 112 is the international one, I believe. Okay. So, Tessa works dispatching ambulances, looking after paramedics, etc. I'm a tired soul at the moment. I imagine this was written a couple months ago, so I imagine you're at a whole other level now.

Thank you so much for the work you're doing. Feeling a bit burnt out and definitely has needed a laugh and a distraction, especially during the last few months. So thank you, the shining light in my week and something I could listen to over and over again because I have terrible memory. Thank you, Matt. Thank you, Jess.

Thank you, Jeff. Oh, that's very nice. That's not a brag at all. You tricked it. You tricked us, Hang on, but you bragged about your terrible memory, meaning you can enjoy content over and over again. No, that's very nice.

That was so sweet. Appreciate you doing great work. Too kind. Now, although... And the emergency work is great work too. Thank you so much. Amazing. But you have made it look like to Zamet

that we just end the show with people writing in compliments. And now for our same thing we called Praise Me. It's not normally like this, Sammy, I promise. That's nice. Look, I mean, it gets you like a time to like, oh, feel a bit warm and fuzzy. This is kind of nice.

It's like, oh, I'm on a show. People, you know, your fan seem to appreciate you and some nice things. We get a lot of like, well, once again, you fucked up. You fucking idiot. Did you not think about this? And I'm like, no, I didn't. I didn't. I'm sorry.

That wasn't a Nick Kershaw song. Sorry, I've now heard that you did say it was Howard Jones. I appreciate you. I'm getting the word out about Howard. The next one comes from Claire Norris. Claire's given herself the title, Infiltrator of the Moles. Oh, oh. And Claire is offering us a fact.

Geez, I hope the fact isn't. I really love your podcast. I hope it is. I need that. I need that praise, Claire writes. Praise me. Come on. Here's this fact.

It's a fact that I love this pod. Go on, come on. I'm the libel fact. Well, it starts that way. Hey, gang, I love learning from your show. Yes. Thank you. My students every year do.

in-depth research on an animal species of their choice. For the first time ever this year, one student picked an Australian mole. So I felt the need to pass on my newfound knowledge. There's a bit of a running thing when we talk about. I can't remember where it started. Mole people being in control of everything, the fortress of the malls. I think there was a theory on one of our mystery episodes that mole people were under it all?

Yeah, under all and in charge of it all. I don't know if you guys listen to any sort of like radio dramas or those type of things, but there is one particular podcast called, I think it's called The Truth. And there's one like little story where they have, which is all about like people who live underground. And it's just terrifying. Just terrifying. Yeah, so it is a real thing. Scary.

Wow. Well, do you want to hear some facts about the Australian mole via Claire Norris? There are two, I didn't know there are Australian moles, by the way. I mean either. There are two Australian moles, both of which are technically not true moles. are marsupials. Oh, fake mail. The southern Australian mole, or itjari,

is apparently incredibly rare to see at the surface, less than 10 times per decade. That's amazing. Once a year. A little rare bugger. It doesn't even create burrows, but rather swims through the ground, leaving no permanent burrow.

That's amazing. This is like magic. Does that mean that when it wants to sleep, it just stops? It just like buries itself. Man, that's sick. That's cool. Its pouch is also backwards to avoid filling with dirt.

That's clever. Makes sense. Thanks for listening to my random science facts. I love the pod. I look forward to you each week. Oh, thank you so much, Claire. They're amazing facts. I think I had like the yowie.

You remember yOWIs? Yes. A little chocolate yOWs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I had like different Australian animals in it. I think I had the mole one. You had a mole one. Oh.

And do those facts, are they true? Look, I die of your little plastic version of the mill. I'm trying to remember did they come with any little facts, but my kid brain cannot retain that. So let's just say yes. Okay. Well, the next one, thank you, Claire. The next one comes from Eric Epson, near guard Jacobson, who's given himself a title of Capo de Tuti Capuchin. Oh.

Does that mean anything she did? Captain of all, remember that was the leader of the mafia was like. Right, the five families. Yeah, there was the Capo. And Capuchin. Captain of all captains. Capuchin is the Capuchin monkey? Yeah, you should know that about primates.

Yeah, because Capuchin monkey, I think it's named after, I think, Cappuccino and Capuchin have the same, they both come from the same word, which is the color, I think, of the Capuchin monks' uniforms or something. I did read it at one point on the monkey show. What was it called again? Primates. So Eric has got a question, which is, what is your favorite way of traveling? Mine is the scientist.

A proper road trip. No, sorry, a proper road trip is the second choice. It's another Tony Martin-based thing, which I'm now not sure if it's me misremembering, but I remember Tony Martin on his old radio show, Get This, playing it. I swear he played this clip, and he might have doctored it, which is so funny that I just believed it, but it was Shane Warren interviewing Chris Martin from Coldplay. For a while, Shane Warner the Cricketer had an interview show for about eight episodes.

The final question was always, Boxers, Brief So Commando. Anyway, you interview Chris Martin. He interviews Chris Martin from Coldplay, and he said, So what's your favorite Coldplay song? Mine's a scientist. Like, he asked and then answered in this weird, aggressive way before Chris Martin could get a word in.

So often people will now answer their own questions with minds of scientists. That makes sense. But now, I've found that interview and it's not in there. So I don't know. Oh, wow. I didn't know how much you found the interview. I've watched the whole interview and it's not in there. So I'm not sure what's happened here.

Yeah. If I'm misremembering or if Tony Martin doctored it somehow or what happened, I should. You got an email, Tony. I should try and find out. Get tone on the blower. Ask you some questions. So anyway, yes. So Eric.

says he loves a road trip. That's his favourite way of travelling. Do you have a favourite way of travelling? On foot, bicycle, flying. Yeah, like, again, Concord. Travelling has been such a rare thing these days. It's almost like a distant memory.

Do I like to travel from the kitchen to the lounge room? Oh, yeah, yeah. But how do you travel in the Concord? On foot. Oh, okay. I like to hear the steps up. Yeah, that'd look fair enough. Three or four of them at a time.

I mean, I do love to drive. Driving is always fun. I love to drive because I love listening to music, listen to the podcast. Yeah, yeah. I always like having, I just think, where, you know, who else am I driving with these days? Because, you know, even in this, like, a little bubble of ours, but, like, driving place with my wife, it's always, like, a good time to have a conversation. Yeah. It's always a fun type.

Yeah, I love a road trip on my part. What's your favorite? Like, that's going, like, longer distance. It sounds like we're all kind of road trip over plane. I do, look, I quite enjoy a plane ride. Don't get me wrong. Big fan. I've found more recently, because I've done the Australia, UK, several times.

And in the more recent times, we've broken it up by just going to, like, say, like, Malaysia or something like that, having a couple days there. And that is great, and I'm never not doing that. Your favorite way of travel is to break it up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah, just get as many destinations in as you can.

If wherever, you know, if that becomes a thing that happens is, you know, common again, I reckon I'll be making the most of every opportunity to go anywhere. But, yeah, I like the road trip. Obviously, you can't road trip overseas from here, but you can stop at any point, get a dare-ice coffee. You know what I mean? Can't do that on a plane. Get a sausage roll.

Yeah. At any point. Any point. Any point. Servo's coming up. You get a dare-ice coffee. Yeah, one of them? It's nice to draw.

Yeah, there were a couple weeks back. We went like sort of out into, where did we go? Somewhere out in the bush that we were just like, there's an Airbnb available. It's cheap. Let's go. I want to sleep in a bed. It's not mine. And on the way back, we passed them like a Macas and we're like, dare we?

And we just got a slurpy with a bit of soft serve in that. Oh, did you put that in yourself? No, no, we asked for it. You can just do this. It's even like the sum of the self-checkout. You just go, beep, beep, beep, done. You mix that up. Had a good time.

That's so good. I wonder if there's anything where the machine will say, no, that's fucked. You can put a combo in and it's like, you want bacon bits, you want chicken, you want a fanta, you want it inside a slushy,

you want an auremic flurry, you want a fillet of fish, all in one. That's not a computer. You want it in a bag, a paper bag, you served, and the machine just starts burning.

Sir, I wrecked your machine, I'm sorry. Sorry. Just quickly, on terms of, Say you're going, your public transport in town. So, you know, you can, you know, obviously you can drive or ride or walk.

But if of the three Melbourne public transports, what's your phone, train, tram, bus. Bus can, look, I think bus can die. Yeah, bus is definitely. Oh, train is a close also can die. Oh, no, I'm trying one. Really? I love the train. But I think that's because I grew up outside the tram network.

Oh, okay. Well, so did I, but I prefer the tram. Yeah, interesting. I like it. You can see exactly where you are. Yeah. With a train, often you're like, you're down. Like, they've cut like a path for the train, but you can't see where you are.

Yeah, but the train, it doesn't matter what the traffic's like. The train's zooming along. That's the true advantage. I guess it depends. Am I in a hurry or do I want to leisurely, like, just get somewhere eventually? Because if I want to get somewhere. You're going to get somewhere. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Also, like, because again, I love reading on a public transport, if I'm ever to do that, which I've tried to avoid as humanly possible. And I think a tram is great for a reading. Great for a rain. There you go. All right. I think we learned a little bit about each other there. So we've got two trains and a tram? No, no, I'm tram.

Two trams and a train. No bus. I don't trust him ever since I saw speed. That's fair. Also, since I saw speed too, no more cruise ships. Yeah. Also fair. But that was only recently.

How do you feel about leeches in a bathtub, though? Oh, yes. I think these little babies will keep me a lot. Life. I don't watch Speed 2. Have you seen Speed 2? No. Literally in the last 4-M.

Is that what that's funny? Speed 2 cruise control. Willem Defoe, pretty good. Great bad guy. But everything else, pretty bad. I don't think I've ever heard anyone call Willam Defoe anything less than fantastic. Yeah, that's right. That was just like a knifeing him.

Willem DeFoe, pretty good. That sentence has never been. The hardest thing is that he was following up Dennis Hopper and what I think is probably the best bad guy ever. Right. In Speed 1. famously in the film with Jack Nichol Easy Rider baby

or Nicholson Which everyone's not the golfer That's right The bear The bear The last one It's so funny We did a long episode now

We're just casually cruising through This section Sorry, Zammett, so sorry That's all right And the last one this week comes from David Mollofsky A.k.a place hanging your cape And

David's giving himself the title of the funky fun king of punking, the pun king, by pumping pumpkin puns. Sorry, it was so long, my screen chopped it off. I think you got me there, David. I was going okay until the back half. And this is a quote from David. He writes, this is one of my all-time favorite quotes, and it comes from the legendary Stan Lee.

When asked if digital comics would replace print comic books, Stan the man replied, Comics are like boobs. They look great on a computer, but I'd rather hold one in my hand. Oh. Just one. He's shaking hands with the boobs?

I'm picturing him having one like attached from a body. He keeps it in, you know, like some sort of a solution. Uh-huh. And to relax, he'll take it out and hold it. I'll take it back.

Dennis Hopper's not the greatest super villain of all time. Stan Lee. Instead of a cat. He's stroking a single group. He's just holding just one up, just reaching across, being like, ah, let me just hold this for you. One of David's all-time favorite quotes. He says, this quote really struck a gourd with me.

That's a sneaky pumpkin pun for you, Matt. Okay. Are you a big pumpkin fan? No, but I think that relates back to his title, Punking the Pumpkin King. He says this quote really stuck a gourd with me because this year I've been binge reading digital comics but at the end of the day

nothing beats holding the real thing. David, this, that all had real virgin vibes about it. I got to tell you. I love it. That's so good. Thank you so much. David, Eric, Claire, and of course Tessa Chilcott,

the Queen of Yorns. Would you believe it? We're only just be getting in this shout-out section, Zamet. I'm excited. We're going to race through this. We're going to race through this. This next thing, what Jess normally does here, we're not going to raise. We're giving everyone the time.

They've waited for so long to be shouted out here. We'll be racing through your time and we appreciate you. So Zammert, what Jess normally does here is she comes up with a little game. So we read out a few names each and then normally it'll be related to the topic where we'll give them a nickname based on the episode or something like that. I don't know. Can you anything? That's pretty it. Like, like, we just say a little game based on the... Maybe, maybe, yeah. It can be based on one of the bands.

Maybe each of them gets represented by one of the bands, Dave. Okay, I've got the list here. And then, and maybe, and then what they do, what they do that's heard around the world? That's better. Yeah, the bung note, what are they doing that's heard around the world? Yeah. So that's an example. Zammett, now you come up with one.

Okay, okay. Or you can take that one. I don't know if I can top that right now, to be honest. I think that's pretty good. I was going to be like how would they be, how would they feel about being like introduced by Jack Nicholson? But honestly, I think it's the whatever heard around the world is much better. All right. So I'll read out the first year.

I mean, if you want to give us the first one. All right. So I'd love to thank from Franklin in Tasmania, Laura Wood. Where was Laura Wood did the? I think she did that, that sniff that was heard around the world. So she was in, she had the fruit bowl. Yeah, yeah. She was back at the.

She was hanging out of the. back out the back. Everyone was like, whoa, save some for the rest of it. Used to journalists being like, Franklin Dam. Like the Hoover Dam.

Thank you very much, Laura. I'd also love to thank from Glasgow, home of the great Billy Connolly, I believe, in Scotland, Lewis Douglas. A great Scottish-sounding name, I think.

Yeah, I love that. With the bagpipe heard around the world. Lewis would love that. I reckon. Lewis Douglas and the pipe. The pipes hit around the world. Was everyone,

anyone just hear a bagpipe? Did we all? I know, I'm in Australia, but did you over there in when, did you hear that? Yeah. Still somehow it sounds better than Simon LeBond.

And finally from me, I'd love to thank. From South Fremantle in Western Australia, Alex. Oh, Alex. Okay. Alex, the slap hurt around the world. Yeah.

With a glove, you know, like old school, I challenge you to a gruel. A gruel. A gruel. A gruel. A gruel jewel. It's a gruel off. Is that like a mud pit fight, but you fight in gruel? In gruel, yes.

Love that. Yeah. And Alex is so badass. Won't just takes a beating. So much gruel. at the end, Alex's catchphrase is, please, sir, I want some more. Dave, would you like to thank a few of the next few?

I would love to thank from an unknown location. We can only imagine some of it that's deep within the fortress of the moles. Big shout out to this person summed up in three letters. DECDEC. Could it be Elvis Costello using his birth name, deck? Finally taking pride in his family name. deck is the sad uncle heard around the world things are going really well for me

that's what's heard on your deck we believe you things are going well hey we're back up to Scotland now I'd like to thank from Glasgow Campbell J Parker Campbell J Parker Campbell J Parker there's a name to set you watch too

The FAR heard around them And Campbell, famous quote. Where's the dog? Where's the dog? They're just battling to find a dog. Where's the dog? Sorry, mate.

You were here alone. There's an epicenter around your eyes. We've dragged it down to you. I would also like to thank from North Carolina. you know if anything about that? North Carolina. I've got a fun fact about North Carolina. Did you know.

In North Carolina, their fire engines aren't red, they're blue. That's funny. Yeah, that's a fun fact. You know that day? I didn't know that. I haven't heard that every time. It's a real...

It's a real life Shelbyville type scenario. Yeah, totally. I believe it is only from the first time he's told the fact, and you've diluted it, it's in one specific place in North Carolina. Which it might be Winston-Salem and the resident there that I like to thank. Pigs that out to Tim Dolan. Tim Dolan.

Tim Dolan, you're absolute legend. I think Tim Dolan might be one of our rare patron supporters who listens via YouTube. And might be one of the few people on YouTube who does positive comments. Oh, so it might be the YouTube comment heard around the world. The positive comment feedback heard around the world. Hey, good app. Yeah. Good app.

Thank you, Tim. Maybe I could, do you want to thank last three names? I'm just looking at the names, I might have thrown you under the bus slightly there. Thank you. Sorry. Thank you, Matt Smith. Okay. So, I believe someone from Christchurch in Canterbury, New Zealand.

I am, first off, I just want. I am so sorry. I apologize. This is a brutal handle. For what, look, I, uh... If you want to throw it back, though. No. Okay.

We are, we are taranji, we are taranji, we are taranji, we are taranji, we are taranji, nigarum. Are that that's not it? We are taranji. Nigarimu. Nigarimu. Nigurimu. I apologize if I, uh, uh, uh, uh, butchered that.

Rin Dan is a beautiful name to look at it. I'm very sorry. But I'm very white. Close. Yes. In New Zealand, okay, I'm thinking it is the bungee jump scream heard around the world. That's brilliant. I invented the bungee jumping, I think, in New Zealand.

I put the history of bungee jumping up for a vote at one point. That'd be a great one, I reckon. Yeah. It sounded like an interesting story. Also, probably you talk a lot about injuries. Yeah. Yeah, early days I imagine it would have been dicey. But that's all I'd bungee jumped in New Zealand.

It was amazing. Over the water. Amazing. I've done it. I recently found the USB, which I think has the video of me doing it. I should see if I can rip that to post it on Twitter or whatever. Yeah. Did you do good?

Did you be scared? It looks funny. Like I sort of just flop off the edge a bit. It's not like a cool sort of, you know, Tom Cruise doing his own stunts kind of jump. It's more like it looks like maybe I've just been sedated and I've fallen off. But the guy, as I was walking up to the guy, he must do this joke to a lot of people, but he goes, as I'm falling, he goes, oh shit. Yeah, it must be a classic. It's going to freak you out or do you go, come on.

I mean, I was falling by that point. And then, but they must, I imagine they do this to all the people. Before that, he goes, he goes, oh, how are you going? And I said, good thanks to you. And he's like, absolutely hung over, to be honest, had a huge night last night, feeling very hazy. Oh, man. And I'm like, oh, yeah.

I'm going, he's joking. But, you know, a little bit of it gets through. And then at the other end, they, when they bring you down, you're hanging upside down, and they bring you into the boat. But he goes, all right, we're going to low you into the water now. It's quite cold. Get ready. And we're lowering you into the, but they're putting you into the boat.

They're just the whole time they're trying to fake you out. Can you see the boat or are you expecting you? No, yours are. I can't. I'm upside down. And, yeah, it was just like, can you just say one thing sincerely? All right, we're lowering you into the lava pit now. Just three, two. We're going to shoot you now. We've got a gun pointed. The sniper has his point you.

And they get someone with a laser to put the red door under it. We don't want you to enjoy any moment of this. No, not at all. Not at all. Well, thank you very much there. Wetairanji. And also I guess thank Rachel Jarrett. Rachel. From location unknown.

You can only assume Dave. Deep. Deep within the fortress. Very deep. Rachel Girath, even in the Fortress of the Moes, we can hear the high five. All around the world. Up top. Up top.

Is it someone's dodgy uncle again? Up top. You'll make it one day, uncle. Elvis, I guess we'll call you. Yeah, oh God, God. He really wants us to call him Elvis. Oh, imagine when your Uncle Ray brands is Elvis. Jesus Christ.

I couldn't do it. And finally, thank you. Mikey Overdune. From. From Devon Park in South Australia, Australia. Devin Park in South Australia. Mikey Overdune. South Australia.

What are some of the things South Australia, the pie floater? The church 24-hour bakeries The serial killer heard around the world You did say church What about church bells Oh the church bells

Love the sound of the bell The ding The ding heard around the world Never forgets the ding Do I Amazing So thank you very much Laura Lewis

Alex Deck Campbell J Tim Whatterangi Rachel and Mikey What I mean We always have the most amazing names. I think I've got a conspiracy theory that somehow the algorithms don't let you listen unless you've got an awesome name. That sounds about right? Yeah. I bet you, I bet you your

pants listeners are like Alan Davidson. Alan Sophie Tim. That's probably an Alan Davidson listening. Odds are. I'm joking, Alan. Alan's the cry I heard around the world. What about, come back, Alan. Is that why you refer to him as Matt Smith? Because you Yeah. So you're normal name? Somehow you've dulled down even my name. Stewart. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

It has to be some kind of. What's generic? More generic. Even more generic. All right. Well, that brings us to the last thing we like to do. Can you believe this more? Welcoming some of our long-term supporters into the Triptitch Club.

These people have been supporters at the shout-out level or above for three straight years. Three years. Three years. One of them, for most of them, for most. Much longer than that, but we missed him a while ago. And the way this works is I'm standing at the door. In theory of your mind a little bit here. I've got the velvet rope.

I've got the clipboard. I'm going to read out the names, lift up that velvet robe. Welcome them into the club. Into that mind palace club. Dave is in there. He's the hype man. So he's on the stage. Everyone else has already been welcomed in cheering over on.

It's the slow club building up. The Jack Nicholson of this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everyone's going, is that really Dave Warnocky up there? And Dave, really, he gives him a big hype up. Dave also normally books a band to play for the event. Can you believe it? I have booked a live aid reunion, but only one actor has shown up.

And it is Nick Kirschor and he's only going to play a white boy on repeat. Yes. Yes. I couldn't ask for a better result than that. Jess normally comes up with a cocktail that is named based on the show. So what is, what's involved in the live aid cocktail? Live aid cocktail. Well, I guess it's got to be a kind of like, I guess like a meaty drink. Because it's going to be filling.

So we've got to have like a base of Guinness. Okay. Okay. So what's what you want? That's a wild start. Base of Guinness. That's what you want. You want something that you like, is this a bit ready?

If I'm looking through the cocktail book and I see, Guinness is the number one in grid it? I'm moving on. Okay. Then we want to maybe like, again, I think this is what. It's also Irish, Bob. You've got the Bob connection there. I'm pretty sure. I don't know if this is true or not.

But to start when you're a young lad or lass and you want to start drinking and you're like, I'll try. Guinness, you're like, oh, too much for me. You just chuck a bit of ribena in that. So we're going to chuck a bit of black current. I love, yes, I love ribina. This is like an Irish snake bite. Yeah, yeah.

Then what we want to do is, like, like, a, uh, a, uh, a, one of them in them, glossy cherries. Definitely want to put, like, one of those on top. Um, now to really inherit, like, I don't know. Wait, so, so this, yeah, you've, you've put a cherry on top, and now you're going to put something else on as the cherry on top. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was just thinking, now, I don't know about your boy.

I've never heard of anyone going beyond the cherry on top. But do you think? That's shorthand for the last thing. I know, but do you think a shot or two of Bayleys would improve this drink? I think so. I think Bowles improves anything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So maybe a shot or two of Bailey's. And then on the rim, you know, you normally do salt.

There's got to be cocaine. Hell yes. Lick, sip, snort. Yeah, yeah. Um, that sounds awful. It just, it sounds like it would curdle. Yeah. In the glass before it does it to your stomach.

Yum, yum, yum. All right. So there's four names to bring in here. And if you just normally gives Dave a bit of support because he's awful at this. All right. That's not why. It's because I'm the great hype man. Yeah.

But find every great hype man is another hype man or hype woman. Oh, sorry, that's what we say. Yeah. All right. So just four names this week. Oh, my God. Here we go. From Swansea in Great Britain, I'm thinking right in Wales, Swansea.

Oh, yeah. Seri John Jones. Oh, Siri, more like Kerry John Jones. I care for you so much. Okay. That's damn right. We care you so much. Yes, you get it.

From Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. It's Aaron McLaughlin. Oh, more like Cassachusetts. Thank you from Boston. Oh, my God. Boston. You are the boss. Of my heart.

The boss of this podcast. Yes. Hell yeah. From Brighton in England. It's Tom Cameron. Oh, the Brighton of my life. You are the brightest spot. You are so like sunny Brighton.

That's what I'm getting from you. You are so bright. Thank you so much for your support. If you think Tom Cameron is too boring of a name to listen to this show because these two first names, there's an eight-chin-ton Tom. Okay. So cop that. Yes, I'd love a good thumb.

And finally from Nashville, Tennessee in the United States, it's Annabeth Larrabee. More like Nashville. Oh my God, Nashville, the home of a lot of beautiful music there playing like the heartstrings of my soul. Feels like there's a lot to work with Annabeth Larraby and you've gone with Cashville. I've done Cassachusetts. That's funny. But I mean, how is that thanking them? It's making it sound like you're only seeing money. No, I'm making it rain.

We're in the club with the fucking money gun going. And I've got the burrito gun. Yeah. So thank you so much. And welcome to Annabeth, Tom, Aaron and Seri John. All fantastic names. Thank you so much. That brings to the end of the episode.

We made it, Zammett. Thank you so much coming on this episode. I think this is going to end up being one of like top five, maybe even top two longest we've ever done. We don't normally. We don't normally go over the three hour barrier. It's not usually this long. Normally, I reckon normally 20 minutes of this would be edited out as well, which I don't think we'll like, this is the director's card episode.

That's right. So I'll apologize. Any new listeners would be like, what the fuck? Hey, but we covered live and extensively, right? Yeah. And Huey Lewis's involvement. Man, I'd be normally begging for you to edit out all mentions of Huey Lewis, but. It's a very integral story.

I knew you didn't have any time to edit. It's an integral story to the DNA of this. Structurally, I cannot take you to Lewis out. But damn it, we won't, if people have any time to listen to any other podcasts, but if this one doesn't go for three hours. They can hear heaps of your voice. Heaps.

Heaps. At St. Spence Radio, do lots of fantastic podcasts that we love. That's true. If you can, I guess, like, look, I'll keep it short. Yeah, it's the starter pack. Just the starter pack. Plumbing the Death Star,

if you like some nerdy pop cultures, with like some of the three biggest dumb fucks talking about. Joel Douche has been on this show before. And we've been on Plumbing the Death Star as well. That's right. Joel Dushe was on to tell us about Ryan Gosling a while back. I'm trying to think it's cast has been on an episode as well. Anyone else from Sam's Pants?

Just the Big Three. Jackson has also been on our... Jackson, of course. An episode. Who I actually counted the Big Three. Dump Dusha out. Top four at best. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But let's be honest, Adam Kahn de Valle is ahead of the douche. Top five for the douche. So yeah, so Plum of the Desta, a basis speculation, and D&D is for nerds. Or you can listen to us on sandspancery.com or on iTunes as part of the Bad IQ Boys collection. And people would be familiar. Certainly our Patreon listeners would be familiar with our D&D campaign, which we did with Adam Kahnvallay. and you do a D&D show with him as well. Yes, the D&D is for nerds.

That is currently we're doing stories from the Greyhill Free Company. Do you do a voice like that on it? Yes, I do. You do a great posh voice. Do a great posh voice. I can't believe I didn't throw accents over to you all episodic. I kept battling through them and they're all just weird.

I'll take it from here. None of them were. I liked your weird Irish eksome. I was a big fan of that one. Irish was the best. Or your cockney geese at the same. Oh my God, there was nothing cocked me about it. Yeah, it was beautiful.

So I apologize to everyone who was offended today, which hopefully was nearly everybody. So that brings us to the end of the episode. Anything we need to tell people before we wrap it update? We can see Zammat Live on February the 18th, I believe. And you can also come and see... 19th, I think. 19th.

And you can come see us. The Do-Go-on quiz show tickets are now just going on sale. April 4, April 11, April 18. At the Melbourne Comedy Festival, man, we'd love to see you there, Oh, it's our Christmas time. And I mean, Christmas time is our Christmas time as well. I'm so lucky to have two Christmas times. Oh, they're very lucky.

And yes, I think one of those shows has a better chance of going ahead. And I believe it is yours. So I'm looking forward to seeing that bad boy. Yeah, no, definitely we'll go ahead no matter what. So, Zammat, thank you so much for joining us. Anytime. And until next week, I'll say thank you so much for listening. And goodbye.

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