Welcome back to the 80s! Or, more specifically, July 13, 1985. We're excited to bring you our 40th Anniversary tribute to one of the greatest music events of all time, Live Aid, the benefit concerts for African famine relief held at London's Wembley Stadium, and JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. In this episode we will be spotlighting the Philadelphia show. Wherever possible, we used the live recordings from that day. In some cases though, the sound quality of various songs wasn’t the best, or there wasn't a recording to use. So, we used an album track instead. We also broke slightly from format and used tracks that weren’t originally from the 80s, but were performed in “The City of Brotherly Love” that day.
A shout out to those of you who have been with us since the beginning and welcome to our new listeners. As always, thanks to the people who helped us put this together: Alan (for all our artwork), DJ Phil B (for the technical stuff) and David Baerwald and David Ricketts, also known as David + David, for their amazing album which inspired the title of our podcast.
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Songs chosen by both of us.
All live tracks are from the album "Live at Live Aid, JFK Stadium, July 13, 1985" (2004)
Joan Baez - Amazing Grace (Live at Live Aid)
The Hooters - And We Danced (Nervous Night 1985)
Kenny Loggins - Footloose (Live at Live Aid, original release Footloose soundtrack 1984)
Duran Duran - Union of the Snake (Live at Live Aid, original release Seven and the Ragged Tiger 1983)
The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations (Live at Live Aid, original release stand-alone single 1966)
Madonna - Into the Groove (Live at Live Aid, original release B-side to Angel 12" single 1985)
David Bowie and Mick Jagger - Dancing in the Streets (stand-alone single 1985)
Simple Minds - Ghostdancing (Live at Live Aid, original release Once Upon a Time 1985, single release 1986)
Bryan Adams - Summer of '69 (Live at Live Aid, original release Reckless 1984, single release 1985)
Rick Springfield - Love Somebody (Hard to Hold soundtrack 1984)
Run DMC - King of Rock (Live at Live Aid, original release King of Rock 1985)
REO Speedwagon - Can't Fight This Feeling (Live at Live Aid, original release Wheels are Turnin' 1984)
The Cars - Heartbeat City (Live at Live Aid, original release Heartbeat City 1984, single release 1985)
Hall and Oates - Out of Touch (Big Bam Boom 1984)
Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now (Into the Gap 1984, single release 1983)
Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) (Suddenly 1984)
Patti LaBelle - Imagine (Live at Live Aid)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Refugee (Live at Live Aid, original release Damn the Torpedoes 1980)
The Pretenders - Back on the Chain Gang (The King of Comedy soundtrack 1983)
Judas Priest - Living After Midnight (Live at Live Aid, original release British Steel 1980)
Eric Clapton - Layla (Live at Live Aid, original release Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs 1970, single release 1971)
USA for Africa - We Are the World (We Are the World 1985)
Listen, enjoy, share, follow. And thanks for keeping 80s music alive!
BB & DD