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|title=<center>"My Generation" Live-Aid 1985 performance</center>
|title=<center>The Who live at Live Aid</center>
|image=Live aid my generation.jpg
|image=Live aid my generation.jpg
|imagecaption=MTV footage of the music festival.
|imagecaption=MTV footage of the music festival.
|status=<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Lost'''</span>
|status=<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Lost'''</span>
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'''Live Aid''' was a music festival aiming to raise relief money to help the 1984 famine in Ethiopia, featuring notorious artists such as David Bowie, Elton John, Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney and '''The Who'''.


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, and Paul McCartney.
As the festival suffered from technical issues, a power failure in the middle of The Who's performance of "My Generation" resulted in the loss of both the video and main audio feeds user for television broadcast, while many US radio stations relied on broadcasting a lower quality mirror feed after the cut.


It was also laden with technical issues, including a power failure in the 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 set up and, due to technical limitations, it took several seconds for the radio signal to cross the Atlantic, resulting in a small portion of the audio and a large portion of the video remaining lost to this day.
 
The backup still took a few seconds to 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.


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
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| {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_O_zMzXBP0|320x240|center|Combined video and audio feeds.}}
{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_O_zMzXBP0|320x240|center|Combined video and audio feeds.}}</div>
| {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSGO4Q3dVBM|320x240|center|Footage of the incident live.}}
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|}
{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSGO4Q3dVBM|320x240|center|Footage of the incident live.}}</div><br>
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{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaYRAXuI5BM|320x240|center|Footage of the incident live on MTV's end.}}</div>
| {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaYRAXuI5BM|320x240|center|Footage of the incident live on MTV's end.}}
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| {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSH2v7Y_8YY|320x240|center|Inteview with the engineers on the incident.}}
{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSH2v7Y_8YY|320x240|center|Inteview with the engineers on the incident.}}</div>
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Revision as of 13:45, 15 September 2017

Live aid my generation.jpg

MTV footage of the music festival.

Status: Partially Lost

Live Aid was a music festival aiming to raise relief money to help the 1984 famine in Ethiopia, featuring notorious artists such as David Bowie, Elton John, Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney and The Who.

As the festival suffered from technical issues, a power failure in the middle of The Who's performance of "My Generation" resulted in the loss of both the video and main audio feeds user for television broadcast, while many US radio stations relied on broadcasting a lower quality mirror feed after the cut.

The backup still took a few seconds to set up and, due to technical limitations, it took several seconds for the radio signal to cross the Atlantic, resulting in a small portion of the audio and a large portion of the video remaining lost to this day.

Gallery

Combined video and audio feeds.

Footage of the incident live.


Footage of the incident live on MTV's end.

Inteview with the engineers on the incident.