The guy running on stage after Bono dropped the mic was Greg Carroll, one of U2's roadie/techs. He sadly died a year later in 1986 in a motorcycle accident. He had picked up Bono's motorcycle from the repair shop and then had the accident en route back. U2 honored his memory on The Joshua Tree (1987) album in the liner notes, dedicating the song "One Tree Hill" to Greg.
U2 are legendary. My favorite performance from Live Aid right here. This rendition is just…chills. *Beyond a vibe.* BAD is one of my fav songs of all time.
They stole the show IMO. It was early in the morning (like mid morning) on the east coast of America (I was in Florida taping as much as I could on our newly purchased VCR machine on MTV); so glad I did, but I was 100% into U2 at the time; I wouldn’t have missed it. STILL have that VHS tape!
Bono is known for adding pieces of other artists' songs into U2 songs at concerts, after he rescued the girls and started singing he added a part of the Rolling Stones' "Ruby Tuesday" and "Sympathy For The Devil, then a changed-up part of Lou Reed's "Walk On The Wild Side".
You should react to U2 All I Want Is You/Where The Streets Have No Name live from Slane Castle. Its another great live performance from them and you wont regret it
"Bad" is actually about addiction, and wishing you could help someone who is going through it. Also, the guy who keeps getting the mic for Bono was Greg Carroll, a long time friend and roadie He was killed in a motorcycle crash in the rain while driving Bono's bike to his home.U2 wrote the song "ONE TREE HILL" about him.
My favourite band! =) You should check out more of their live performances. I think any song from the Zoo TV Tour live in Sidney in 1993 is a great choice ;)
Live Aid was a massive multi day concert benefiting African famine relief. It was at Wembley stadium in London and a venue in Philadelphia and satellite cast around the world. Featured the biggest hit makers of the day as well as relative unknown acts (like U2 were). The surviving members of Led Zeppelin even reunited for it. U2 were supposed to finish their set with Pride ( their first single to crack the U.S. top 40), but Bono’s actions when he saw two girls getting crushed by the crowd ate up too much time.
I was a teen when Live Aid was broadcast. One of my friend’s parents was away for that weekend and we held a Live Aid party. We started drinking at the first song, and well, I can’t tell you when I stopped! Good memories! I did hear this song, and loved it instantly! Been a U2 fan ever since! Stay safe, stay sane,stay strong!
The band also pays tribute to Lou Reed who was not asked to perform at Live Aid. Satellite of love at the beginning and take a walk on the wild side at the very end!
Yes live aid was held simultaneously in different stadiums around the world. U2 was awesome. It's when they just started becoming the rock stars we know today
the old Wembley stadium at live aid. check all u2 live songs especially streets at Sloane castle. they created the stages and technology for everybody else to follow. they put all there money on the line and succeed. best and biggest live band ever.
The man you noticed putting the mic back on the stand was Greg Caroll, a roadie who became close friends with the band but especially Bono and his wife. He died a year later in a motorcycle accident while riding Bono's Harley. The band wrote and recorded the song "One Tree Hill" as a tribute to Greg. The song appeared on their next album, "The Joshua Tree." The song is definitely worth a listen, as you can hear the pain in Bono's voice.
Yes, so sad about Greg. He was so happy getting to work with U2. Sadly, in 1994, the tree on One Tree Hill was attacked by a Maori activist with a chainsaw, and it was attacked again in 1999. So over the following year, the tree became weak and unstable. And the decision was made to remove the tree, which happened on October 26, 2000.
The first 2 phrases he sang were “samples” for lack of a better word.....2 seperate melodic phrases, two song /excerpts/snippets , the first was from lou reed’s “satellite of love”, & the second was from the rolling stones song “ruby tuesday”...the audience then, almost 40 years ago, two thirds of them, no matter what their age, wouldve been aware of these 2 songs....then, from there, u2 officially goes/launches into their own song “Bad”
What people don't realise is that on minute 13'00''' and further is that this concert is called 'Live Aid'. Live Aid was the biggest fundi raising live concert ever until that time (and maybe/probably still), for Africa !! (hunger and troubles in Africa). Bono kissed the forehead of coloured girl !!!!!! and he pointed for minutes and minutes !!!!! in the crowd that he wanted HER to pick out of the crowd. A lot of blonde girls came out of the crouwd, but he didn't want them. Also afterwards two girls where on the stage that he didn't point to. He pointed to that black girl, that he definitely didn't know, I believe symbolically because of what 'Live Aid' was doing !!! Standing for !! (with maybe 200 lillion people watching live on TV)... And after that he sings... I'm wide awake !! He surely was, as a performer (what a voice) and also on a moral level with his action in the crowd that took so long that the band only could play 2 songs, instead of 3. The band, who couldn't see Bono (Bono was in the front of the stage and the bandmembers or defintely the drummer couldn't see him...° was angy at Bono it seemed (I read that somewhere I think) that they couldn't play their biggest hit at that time, Pride. Yes, this is indeed a extemely beautiful and emotional moment. I saw that when I was young. A lot of people didn't undertsand that moment I believe... and still now, people still don't see it.
He climbed offstage to have those girls pulled out because they were getting crushed against the guardrail by the 90,000 people behind them. Live Aid was a two-city charity concert organized by a couple of people named Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for relief work in Ethiopia, which at the time of the shows, was in the midst of a devastating famine. The shows were in the old Wembley Stadium in London (so, yes, a soccer stadium) and RFK Stadium in Philadelphia. This particular performance is generally considered one of the two best of the London show, along with the set by Queen. I vastly prefer U2's set, even though this song went on for so long, they couldn't play all three songs in their set.
The ending of this doesn't mean as much if you don't know that he just randomly, out of nowhere stitched in 3 other songs by the likes of the Rolling Stones and Lou Reed. All the while, the band flawlessly kept going through the whole "save the squashed girls" and ad libs. U2 cemented themselves into the psyche of an entire generation with this performance. Literally, the entire world was watching Live Aid. He also managed to piss off the rest band too, but 40+ years later, U2 and this performance are iconic, so it all worked out.
I think this point is missed so often... brilliant ability to mix on the fly by the whole damn band. As well as keep going while Bono left the stage... it felt as if it was meant to be that long in no way was it. Just an entire group hitting their stride.
@PressStartOnce. Exactly. Most people don’t realize the rest of the band had no idea what was going on when Bono jumped down there unplanned. They couldn’t even SEE Bono at that low level-they didn’t know if he’d fallen off the stage or what. They had to hold it together & keeping riffing w/o sounding too repetitive. The *base work Adam Clayton does here off-the-cuff,* for example, is terrific and often goes unappreciated. Then all four come back together for that seamless impromptu mash-up at the end. Brilliant
The Electric Co from Dortmund Germany 1984 is an incredibly high energy performance. Hope you check that out. Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World from 1993 Zoo TV is a great and fun performance too.
these two pentatonix songs they rap in it. the feeling cant hold us. butter and dynamite. perfume medley. new rules/ havana. gold . shallow. can you feel the love tonight.
Love the reaction! So real! There's a reason U2 are legends and Bono is considered one of the greatest Frontmen in RocknRoll. If you're interested in more live U2 and want to react to one of their most famous songs and tours here's a link (trust me, this is fucking awesome!): th-cam.com/video/hdpyzDAuH60/w-d-xo.html U2 performing "One/Unchained Melody" Live Zoo TV (one of the biggest Rock Tours of all time) in Sydney, Australia.
React to all I want is you/where the streets have no name from slane castle. Best translation from one song to another. Between the 2 songs Bono is crying out to his father, who died a couple days earlier
Yes, live aid....giant crowd, a benefit for world hunger, or something, i forget....anyway, this is the performance that made u2 international super stars...the day b4 they were only known in ireland, maybe a bit of the UK, after this day, they were known to the entire world.
Live aid was the best! You should check out Queen’s performance! Fabulous music! You should check out Paradise by The Dashboard Light by Meatloaf! A long song, but incredible! Stay safe, stay sane, stay strong!
The guy running on stage after Bono dropped the mic was Greg Carroll, one of U2's roadie/techs. He sadly died a year later in 1986 in a motorcycle accident. He had picked up Bono's motorcycle from the repair shop and then had the accident en route back. U2 honored his memory on The Joshua Tree (1987) album in the liner notes, dedicating the song "One Tree Hill" to Greg.
Magical live saw them 4 times back in the 80s 2 times 90s 2 times❤
U2 is simply the best band of the last 40 years and the biggest live band of the last 35 years.
U2 are legendary. My favorite performance from Live Aid right here. This rendition is just…chills. *Beyond a vibe.* BAD is one of my fav songs of all time.
They stole the show IMO. It was early in the morning (like mid morning) on the east coast of America (I was in Florida taping as much as I could on our newly purchased VCR machine on MTV); so glad I did, but I was 100% into U2 at the time; I wouldn’t have missed it. STILL have that VHS tape!
Bono is known for adding pieces of other artists' songs into U2 songs at concerts, after he rescued the girls and started singing he added a part of the Rolling Stones' "Ruby Tuesday" and "Sympathy For The Devil, then a changed-up part of Lou Reed's "Walk On The Wild Side".
He started it with Lou Reed’s “Satellite of Love”
You should react to U2 All I Want Is You/Where The Streets Have No Name live from Slane Castle. Its another great live performance from them and you wont regret it
YES!
"Bad" is actually about addiction, and wishing you could help someone who is going through it. Also, the guy who keeps getting the mic for Bono was Greg Carroll, a long time friend and roadie He was killed in a motorcycle crash in the rain while driving Bono's bike to his home.U2 wrote the song "ONE TREE HILL" about him.
Fantastic! Greetings from Brazil
My favourite band! =)
You should check out more of their live performances. I think any song from the Zoo TV Tour live in Sidney in 1993 is a great choice ;)
Live Aid was a massive multi day concert benefiting African famine relief. It was at Wembley stadium in London and a venue in Philadelphia and satellite cast around the world. Featured the biggest hit makers of the day as well as relative unknown acts (like U2 were). The surviving members of Led Zeppelin even reunited for it.
U2 were supposed to finish their set with Pride ( their first single to crack the U.S. top 40), but Bono’s actions when he saw two girls getting crushed by the crowd ate up too much time.
I was a teen when Live Aid was broadcast. One of my friend’s parents was away for that weekend and we held a Live Aid party. We started drinking at the first song, and well, I can’t tell you when I stopped! Good memories!
I did hear this song, and loved it instantly!
Been a U2 fan ever since!
Stay safe, stay sane,stay strong!
It was just one day; TWO cities (LONDON & PHILADELPHIA) massive worldwide coverage; this performance helped catapult U2 to global stardom.
The band also pays tribute to Lou Reed who was not asked to perform at Live Aid. Satellite of love at the beginning and take a walk on the wild side at the very end!
Yes live aid was held simultaneously in different stadiums around the world. U2 was awesome. It's when they just started becoming the rock stars we know today
One, Drowning man, pride in the of love, with or whitout you, the fly, unforgettable fire, news Year's day, disappearing act, stay faraway so close.
the old Wembley stadium at live aid. check all u2 live songs especially streets at Sloane castle. they created the stages and technology for everybody else to follow. they put all there money on the line and succeed. best and biggest live band ever.
The man you noticed putting the mic back on the stand was Greg Caroll, a roadie who became close friends with the band but especially Bono and his wife. He died a year later in a motorcycle accident while riding Bono's Harley. The band wrote and recorded the song "One Tree Hill" as a tribute to Greg. The song appeared on their next album, "The Joshua Tree." The song is definitely worth a listen, as you can hear the pain in Bono's voice.
Yes, so sad about Greg. He was so happy getting to work with U2. Sadly, in 1994, the tree on One Tree Hill was attacked by a Maori activist with a chainsaw, and it was attacked again in 1999. So over the following year, the tree became weak and unstable. And the decision was made to remove the tree, which happened on October 26, 2000.
@@brettc190 I did hear about that. 😞
I absolutely love One Tree Hill. Fantastic song!
My favorite band ❤
The first 2 phrases he sang were “samples” for lack of a better word.....2 seperate melodic phrases, two song /excerpts/snippets , the first was from lou reed’s “satellite of love”, & the second was from the rolling stones song “ruby tuesday”...the audience then, almost 40 years ago, two thirds of them, no matter what their age, wouldve been aware of these 2 songs....then, from there, u2 officially goes/launches into their own song “Bad”
I watched this entire Live Aid concert. I was 15 yrs old and it was 16 hours long!
What people don't realise is that on minute 13'00''' and further is that this concert is called 'Live Aid'. Live Aid was the biggest fundi raising live concert ever until that time (and maybe/probably still), for Africa !! (hunger and troubles in Africa). Bono kissed the forehead of coloured girl !!!!!! and he pointed for minutes and minutes !!!!! in the crowd that he wanted HER to pick out of the crowd. A lot of blonde girls came out of the crouwd, but he didn't want them. Also afterwards two girls where on the stage that he didn't point to. He pointed to that black girl, that he definitely didn't know, I believe symbolically because of what 'Live Aid' was doing !!! Standing for !! (with maybe 200 lillion people watching live on TV)... And after that he sings... I'm wide awake !! He surely was, as a performer (what a voice) and also on a moral level with his action in the crowd that took so long that the band only could play 2 songs, instead of 3. The band, who couldn't see Bono (Bono was in the front of the stage and the bandmembers or defintely the drummer couldn't see him...° was angy at Bono it seemed (I read that somewhere I think) that they couldn't play their biggest hit at that time, Pride. Yes, this is indeed a extemely beautiful and emotional moment. I saw that when I was young. A lot of people didn't undertsand that moment I believe... and still now, people still don't see it.
They were supposed to do two song but he seen the girls getting crushed up front , they had to improvise and fill the time
They did do 2 songs. They sang "Sunday Bloody Sunday" before this. 👍
Man,❤u2
He climbed offstage to have those girls pulled out because they were getting crushed against the guardrail by the 90,000 people behind them. Live Aid was a two-city charity concert organized by a couple of people named Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for relief work in Ethiopia, which at the time of the shows, was in the midst of a devastating famine. The shows were in the old Wembley Stadium in London (so, yes, a soccer stadium) and RFK Stadium in Philadelphia. This particular performance is generally considered one of the two best of the London show, along with the set by Queen. I vastly prefer U2's set, even though this song went on for so long, they couldn't play all three songs in their set.
The ending of this doesn't mean as much if you don't know that he just randomly, out of nowhere stitched in 3 other songs by the likes of the Rolling Stones and Lou Reed. All the while, the band flawlessly kept going through the whole "save the squashed girls" and ad libs. U2 cemented themselves into the psyche of an entire generation with this performance. Literally, the entire world was watching Live Aid. He also managed to piss off the rest band too, but 40+ years later, U2 and this performance are iconic, so it all worked out.
I think this point is missed so often... brilliant ability to mix on the fly by the whole damn band. As well as keep going while Bono left the stage... it felt as if it was meant to be that long in no way was it. Just an entire group hitting their stride.
@PressStartOnce. Exactly. Most people don’t realize the rest of the band had no idea what was going on when Bono jumped down there unplanned. They couldn’t even SEE Bono at that low level-they didn’t know if he’d fallen off the stage or what. They had to hold it together & keeping riffing w/o sounding too repetitive. The *base work Adam Clayton does here off-the-cuff,* for example, is terrific and often goes unappreciated. Then all four come back together for that seamless impromptu mash-up at the end. Brilliant
Man , they e amazing ❤
The Electric Co from Dortmund Germany 1984 is an incredibly high energy performance. Hope you check that out.
Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World from 1993 Zoo TV is a great and fun performance too.
Powerful
these two pentatonix songs they rap in it. the feeling cant hold us. butter and dynamite. perfume medley. new rules/ havana. gold . shallow. can you feel the love tonight.
Yes please react to Sunday Bloody Sunday “Live At The Red Rocks” (under a blood red sky) 1983. Great reaction to BAD 👏
The girls was 15 yr old Kal Khalique. She was being crushed in the crowd.
Love the reaction! So real! There's a reason U2 are legends and Bono is considered one of the greatest Frontmen in RocknRoll. If you're interested in more live U2 and want to react to one of their most famous songs and tours here's a link (trust me, this is fucking awesome!):
th-cam.com/video/hdpyzDAuH60/w-d-xo.html
U2 performing "One/Unchained Melody" Live Zoo TV (one of the biggest Rock Tours of all time) in Sydney, Australia.
I appreciate that Fred. Thanks for the link. I appreciate it. 😁👍
I recommend "Sunday Bloody Sunday" love from Under A Blood Red Sky
React to all I want is you/where the streets have no name from slane castle. Best translation from one song to another. Between the 2 songs Bono is crying out to his father, who died a couple days earlier
Yes, live aid....giant crowd, a benefit for world hunger, or something, i forget....anyway, this is the performance that made u2 international super stars...the day b4 they were only known in ireland, maybe a bit of the UK, after this day, they were known to the entire world.
Live aid was the best!
You should check out Queen’s performance!
Fabulous music!
You should check out Paradise by The Dashboard Light by Meatloaf!
A long song, but incredible!
Stay safe, stay sane, stay strong!
Yes nsn live haid you muito see more❤😂
Yes they will remember Bono saved them from being crushed!
Why is there water obscuring the video???
If this one gave you chills as it did me, you might also appreciate "Running to a Standstill - Live th-cam.com/video/0SytBl1YSjg/w-d-xo.html
The irony of U2s Tax Avoidance...& Live Aid...never ceases to make me want to throw up.
this concert was to raise money for ethiopian famine that was going on
His friend was dying of drug abuse...wat this song is all ab6