Mate, it's Freddie Mercury and Brain May, not Freddie May

When asked what instrument he played, Freddie responded with "The audience, darling". The 20 minutes Queen were on stage, Freddie didn't just own the stage, he didn't just own the crowd... for those 20 minutes, Freddie Mercury owned the fucking WORLD.

Microphone in one hand, 70,000 fans in the other

I was born in 1955, I've just turned 68. I saw this live and consider myself lucky enough to have lived through the best music era, ever.

Don't forget that this wasn't a Queen fan crowd but a general audience for Live Aid. That's how awesome Freddie was.

No autotune, no fancy dancers, no ultimate lighshow, no smartphones in the air, just music and brilliant musicians. I miss this so much!

To give people some idea just how good Queen was that day, the legendary David Bowie who was on after Queen was heard to exclaim "how the fuck am I meant to follow that?" Best live performance EVER

The kiss he blew was for his mother. He promised her he would before he went to the performance. THIS was the performance of a lifetime. AMAZING.

I think someone wrote once: "And for 20 minutes, the UK was ruled by a different queen." Or at least something along those lines. Freddie just had that much charisma.

They were on stage for 20 minutes only. It will go down in history as the greatest live performance ever. Was privileged to watch this live

Isn't it great to have a crowd like that and NO cellphone?

Freddie was the greatest frontman in rock music history. Nobody else is close.

I would like to give you my perspective of that performance. My sister and I were at Live Aid, I am in my 50's now and she is in her 60's. It is quite difficult for us to have any conversation without referencing Live Aid. Our tickets cost $32.00 all in, for 10 hours of the greatest musicians that ever lived. My sister was obsessed with Bowie, and I was looking forward to seeing Elton John (I loved his stuff in the 70's and early 80's) We both liked Queen without being outright fans of them. I think the other 80,000 in the stadium left the stadium, just like us, knowing Queen had just given us the greatest performance of any band in the history of music. Each band only got 20 minutes to perform, the stage rotated and was split in to 3 sections, the departing band emptied their gear while the next band were on stage, and those after them were completing their set up. There are so many individual moments in the day, that only the crowd who were in the stadium would know.

Everyone laughs at us Baby Boomers...But we had the BEST Music, and Freddie was at the Top of the List

Singing against medical advice due to a throat problem but wouldn't let down the fans and a great and noble cause...... A TRUE SUPERSTAR

I was at Live Aid in Philadelphia that day. They paused the U.S. concert so we could see the simulcast of Queen as it happened. What Freddie couldn’t know at the time was that he commanded 2 audiences simultaneously. We were just as caught up in the performance as the London audience was. It was incredible.