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Eliot Rosewater

(34,167 posts)
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 12:44 PM Sep 20

Everyone go now to CNN or HBO Max and watch "LIVE AID" documentary, and I'll tell you why.

Many of you have already seen it, but the reason to watch it again or for the first time is to see how we must rid ourselves of someone who would call that a “shit hole country.“

We must repair this country so that NONE OF US would walk past starving children and do nothing, and not care.

This is battle of life and death for real. Not just for us but for everyone on this fucking planet.


https://www.cnn.com/live-aid-when-rock-n-roll-took-on-the-world

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hlthe2b

(111,464 posts)
1. Well, the cause first & foremost, but musically:
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 12:57 PM
Sep 20

Freddie Mercury and QUEEN -- no better performance...

keep_left

(3,075 posts)
11. That may have been Queen's finest moment. And David Bowie...
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 04:27 PM
Sep 20

...had to follow them! Fortunately, the quieter acts, like Bryan Ferry and Paul Young, got slotted in earlier in the day so they wouldn't get blown out of the water. IIRC, it was a sweltering day in London, but Bryan Ferry was his usual cool, smooth self, dressed in a button-down shirt and suit jacket (as usual).

Eliot Rosewater

(34,167 posts)
2. When you hear band members and Bob Geldof from Europe talk about
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 01:35 PM
Sep 20

Getting the American artists on board and doing things in the United States about this how that changes the game, you see how the rest of the world looked up to us and admired us, the rest of the free world that is.

We’ve lost all of that, all of it is gone. I’m angry and I want it back!😡

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highplainsdem

(58,341 posts)
5. No, that isn't it. That's one of many shoddy documentaries from a YouTube exploiter. The OP refers to
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 02:59 PM
Sep 20

a CNN documentary - a 4-part series if I recall correctly.

highplainsdem

(58,341 posts)
8. Thanks for deleting to avoid confusion. There are lots of YouTube channels set up by people with no real expertise, or
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 03:16 PM
Sep 20

permission, just exploiting other YouTube content - and that's become even worse with AI.

tavernier

(13,966 posts)
9. I've probably watched the Queen/Freddie segment
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 03:19 PM
Sep 20

over 100 times. I still get goosebumps.

It was a Herculean effort with the participation of generous and well meaning people. Sadly most of the money was taken by a corrupt government and squandered. I have my fears that the same thing would happen again.

llmart

(16,878 posts)
10. There's another good one on Netflix.
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 03:29 PM
Sep 20

Have any of you watched the documentary on Katrina? That'll remind you of what a fuck up Dubya's administration was. It will also show you what a third world country looks like and behaves when it comes to the least of us.

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