WHEN BOWIE MET ANNIE LENNOX ~ RAW AUDIO ~ LIVE 92 |
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Raw Audio Under Pressure Book-ended by short clips of Annie lennox reminiscing about working with David at The officially known as "The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness" Wembley Stadium on Easter Monday 20th April 1992 for an audience of 72,000
The concert was produced for television by Ray Burdis and broadcast live on television and radio to 76 countries around the world, with an audience of up to one billion.The concert was a tribute to the life of Queen lead vocalist, Freddie Mercury, with proceeds going to AIDS research. The show marked bassist John Deacon's final full-length concert with Queen (save a short live appearance with Brian May, Roger Taylor and Elton John in 1997). The profits from the concert were used to launch The Mercury Phoenix Trust, an AIDS charity organisation. Following Freddie Mercury's death on 24 November 1991 from bronchopneumonia brought on by AIDS, the remaining members of Queen (John Deacon, Brian May and Roger Taylor) came together with their manager Jim Beach to organise a concert to celebrate the life and legacy of Mercury, and to raise money for AIDS research and spread awareness about the disease "Under Pressure" is a 1981 song by David & the British rock band Queen. It was included on Queen's 1982 album Hot Space. The song reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the Queen's second number-one hit in their home country (after 1975's "Bohemian Rhapsody", which topped the chart for nine weeks) and Bowie's third (after 1980's "Ashes to Ashes" and the 1975 reissue of "Space Oddity"). The song only peaked at No. 29 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and would re-chart for one week at No. 45 in the US following Bowie's death in January 2016. It was also number 31 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the '80s.[1] It has been voted the second best collaboration of all time in a poll by the Rolling Stone magazine. MTRudeBoy claims no rights to sound or vision Footage used to Pay Respect & Honour Britain's Greatest ever solo artist |