DEFINING MOMENT?

Zowie Recchi ([email protected])
Thu, 22 Oct 1998 11:15:11 +0100

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I wasn't into music much when I was a teenager but there was one band I
positively disliked and that was U2. Don't know why, maybe it was because
they just seemed so annoyingly 'different' whenever I saw them on TV; they
weren't like Duran Duran or Wham!. Then, I happened to catch them on Live
Aid. That changed my opinion of them completely. Their performance
stayed with me long after the concert had finished. Contrived or not, it
was a stroke of genius pulling that girl out of the crowd. They did
something that no other band at Wembley did that day.

If you ask anyone who saw Live Aid, "what was the most memorable
performance?", they will more than likely say either Queen, David Bowie or
U2. In July 1985, Queen and Bowie were well-established, commercially
successful and critically respected artists. U2 was just this little band
from Dublin, Ireland.
Even the Boomtown Rats were more famous back then!

Live Aid, for me anyway, was definitely their defining moment. They
consolidated it with their second defining moment - The Joshua Tree.

Well, that's just my opinion,
Zowie

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