Queen’s performance at Live Aid on July 13, 1985, is widely regarded as the greatest live rock performance in history, voted the best rock gig of all time in a 2005 industry poll.
The 21-minute set at London’s Wembley Stadium revitalized the band’s career, which had been suffering from critical backlash following their 1982 album Hot Space and a controversial tour of apartheid-era South Africa.
