Before I reply to this let me first state U2 are my favourite band and have been for the last 18 years. At the time of Live aid They were up there as maybe not my favourite but not far off.
Chewystick69 said:
I hope that anyone in their 30's or 40's buys the Live Aid DVD. It comes in 4 DVDs. And it is awesome. I've seen the U2 video recently but not on DVD. They stole the show! That is why they are the BEST Band in the World!
For anyone who actually watched Live aid as it happened U2 did not steel the show Queen did.
Even watching now many, many years later Queen were totally out of this world.They blew everyone away.
A band who everyone thought were washed up and yet they were still awesome.
(Fast forward to 2005 replace Queen with Pink Floyd. Similar circumstances, similar performance to put it into context)
As for U2's performance SBS was a brilliant performance.
Now this is where I get the howls of derrision!
Bad totally lost me and it still does.
I agree that as far as U2 were concerned it was a carreer defining moment. Would they have scaled the hights without it who knows?.
I can remember watching at the time and being really dissapointed that they hadn't played Pride. They played an album track (at the time not well known) that lasted what 15 mins or so?.As I said at the start I love u2 But I was left a little cold by them that day. Sorry!!
Oh, just out of interest my top band at the time was not Queen.
Just thought I would point that out.
) Bad definitely did rule! 
and it's a brilliantly packaged set with lots of pix of the artists on the discs and the booklet's great too! 
