The Live Aid concert in which Queen appears was organized by original Band Aid organizer Bob Geldof. The movie makes it appear as if Queen had been left out of the line-up because Freddie Mercury did not respond to Geldof's early invitations, and the group was only added at the eleventh hour after a hasty reconciliation. In reality, Geldof and Queen had previously fallen out over the group's decision to give concerts in Argentina and South-Africa, countries that were generally boycotted by the musical world at the time due to their political prosecutions and apartheid regime respectively. When Geldof famously announced on television news early in 1985 that Queen was one of the bands who had agreed to play there (which reportedly ensured the participation of a lot of other big names), they were extremely annoyed with him, as not only had he not contacted them and this was the first they had heard of it, but they were also supposed to be touring.Despite feeling they had been emotionally blackmailed, they did not want to publicly rebuke Geldof or back out of the concert, so they had to reschedule their plans for that month. Queen rehearsed their set for weeks beforehand in the gym of a local college. Queen gave what was probably the most memorable performance of the whole concert, Freddie whipping the audience up with his legendary showmanship and the band being onstage for over 20 minutes, despite being allocated only a 15-minute slot.
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