The Who live at Live Aid (partially lost concert footage; 1985): Difference between revisions

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Live Aid was a music festival, who's goal was to raise relief money to help the 1984 famine in Ethiopia, with the help of many famous musicians, including David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney.

It was also laden with technical issues, including a power failure in middle of The Who's performance of My Generation, causing the video feed and the main audio feed to be lost, though many US radio stations broadcasted a lower quality mirror feed after the cut. The backup still took a few seconds to be set up, and due to how radio works, took several seconds for the radio signal to cross the Atlantic, so a small portion of the audio and a large portion of the video remains lost to this day.

Combined video and audio feeds Interview With The Engineers

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-At the Live Aid Music Fundraiser that  had musicians such as Queen, David Bowie, led zeppelin, Paul Mccartney and more. it is one of the most well known Music Festivals ever with about 172,000 people at the Dual Venue Event With 72,000 At Wembley Stadium in London, England and about 100,000 at John F. Kennedy Stadium. There was tons of Techincal Issues. one (which was a power outage) caused part of The Who's " My Generation " to be Partially Lost. For most people they did not get to hear the last minute or two of the song. while some radio stations had people broadcast a lower quality version of the song. though they were not able to set it up fast enough and also the time it takes for the signal to go over the ocean (remember this was 1985) it caused roughly 6-7 Seconds of the Song to be lost. you can find the put together video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_O_zMzXBP0 and an interview of some of the engineers here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSH2v7Y_8YY
+Live Aid was a music festival, who's goal was to raise relief money to help the 1984 famine in Ethiopia, with the help of many famous musicians, including David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney.
+It was also laden with technical issues, including a power failure in middle of The Who's performance of My Generation, causing the video feed and the main audio feed to be lost, though many US radio stations broadcasted a lower quality mirror feed after the cut.  The backup still took a few seconds to be set up, and due to how radio works, took several seconds for the radio signal to cross the Atlantic, so a small portion of the audio and a large portion of the video remains lost to this day.
+[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_O_zMzXBP0 Combined video and audio feeds]
+[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSH2v7Y_8YY Interview With The Engineers]