July 13, 1985 musical history was made with Live Aid; dual concerts in London and Philadelphia. Did you watch it?
Benham was there. I watched some of it on TV drinking and smoking with my friends and thought it was cool how Phil Collins played at Wembley and then jetted over to JFK and played there too.
No, I knew her but she was dating someone else that I grew up with. They broke up and she married someone else around the same time I got married in our early twenties. We both found ourselves divorced around the same time 20 years ago and hooked up. It's been a fun ride ever since.
Fun facts: Frank Zappa was invited to perform, but refused because he believed that the money raised by Live Aid did not address the core problems facing the developing world and instead aided the developed world by providing ways to get drugs, calling the concert "the biggest cocaine money laundering scheme of all time."
That was some fucking concert. It was also like 120 degrees in the stadium and they hosed the crowd off with firehoses.
You aren't the only one to say "fuck U2". Timing was down to the last second and bands were told if they went over, the plug would be pulled on them. Bono decided he was going to jump off the rotating stage (even though the musicians were told not to) and his little stunt almost fucked up the time slots for the remaining acts.