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It was actually the BPI Awards that we went to collect an award and Geldof was at a few tables away and came over and said
How about doing this this thing?
We're gonna have this and this and this and this and we said, oh, yeah, I'm sure you know
Thinking that it was an almost impossible thing to get together, but we said yeah, we'd be interested
Then a bit later when he rang up and said look Brian
I have to have a commitment, you know
And so we sort of talked about it a bit more and it seemed like we were all very keen to do it
[G] Is that because you support the cause and want to do your bit or because it's such a unique rock event that you can't afford
to miss out in a way
To answer that honestly, it's a bit of both actually because I think
It is a very good cause and initially I think we would have liked to have taken part in band-aid
single but I think we were in separate parts of the globe and
so the second
Bash at it was was this thing and also the fact that some of the biggest
Best known groups around the world taking part.
Why not us?
So I think
It makes me personally proud to sort of be part of it
[D] Is it difficult to choose numbers for a 20-minute set?
Do you find that you have to stick to your best known numbers?
[N] We've just been talking about that.
It's pretty hard to make the choice
Yes, you don't quite quite what to do, you know whether to play the hits or or to try and do something new
But I think in 20 minutes really we've got to play things that people know and we'll recognize, you know in
Turkey or wherever they're watching maybe
So we're still squabbling over that fact, that's what you're saying
You're known for the spectacle of your life performances for the backdrops and the expansive lighting rigs
Is it going to be difficult to cope with the sort of sparsity of Wembley?
Well comes down if you can play or not really which is nice really in a way because I think probably
there's probably an element of people who think that groups like us can't do it without the
Extravagant backdrop, but we'll see
After 13 years, do you still get excited about this sort of live performance?
This one especially has great.
Yes, we still like to play and fool around
What about the number that you two are going to be performing towards the end towards the finale?
What's the story behind that?
well, actually it seems that
It looks as if we actually wrote it for this occasion
But we didn't actually it was done a long time before that.
It seems to fit the bill actually, so I think
They opted out and said well, why don't the two of us because I mean during a Queen show
[Dm] [Ab] It's just the two of us that actually playing Roger and John actually [Gbm] go have a drink or something
[N] But so we weren't really going to do that one, but it seems to be
Very sort of a part of the show.
It's very meaningful and so we're gonna do it.
Tell me a little bit about it
No
It came about when we'd almost finished recording the album that works actually and
We've been throwing stuff off because there wasn't room for it and the end we threw off so much that
We said there's a little hole here.
Just need something and actually Mac who's producing us
said why don't you do something really simple, you know, just just write a song and
Freddie and I were there late one night and we just came up with this thing.
It was very quick and
We just had this particular thing in mind, you know, the whole business of Africa was in our minds and
That's the way it came out
Saturday is meant to be all for a good cause and there aren't meant to be any egos involved
But also no you guys at all, but are so many superstars gonna find it difficult in each other's sort of personal spaces
Hilarious chaos, I think it's gonna be chaotic.
Yes.
Yes has to be I mean we're not
We're not all wonderfully
Well behaved kids are we it was just but that that's that's going to sort of actually be the nice part of it
actually, there's be lots of friction and
We're all gonna try not to each other I guess
We're just gonna go and play.
That's right.
You want to give something special really?
That's what it's about.
Not the regular thing
Everybody's gonna be out there
Giving their best and that's what it's about make some money for those people that's as Geldorf says
That's what it comes down to you know, we can all have a great time
I think we will but it comes down to the fact.
It's gonna make tons of money [Bb] and
How about doing this this thing?
We're gonna have this and this and this and this and we said, oh, yeah, I'm sure you know
Thinking that it was an almost impossible thing to get together, but we said yeah, we'd be interested
Then a bit later when he rang up and said look Brian
I have to have a commitment, you know
And so we sort of talked about it a bit more and it seemed like we were all very keen to do it
[G] Is that because you support the cause and want to do your bit or because it's such a unique rock event that you can't afford
to miss out in a way
To answer that honestly, it's a bit of both actually because I think
It is a very good cause and initially I think we would have liked to have taken part in band-aid
single but I think we were in separate parts of the globe and
so the second
Bash at it was was this thing and also the fact that some of the biggest
Best known groups around the world taking part.
Why not us?
So I think
It makes me personally proud to sort of be part of it
[D] Is it difficult to choose numbers for a 20-minute set?
Do you find that you have to stick to your best known numbers?
[N] We've just been talking about that.
It's pretty hard to make the choice
Yes, you don't quite quite what to do, you know whether to play the hits or or to try and do something new
But I think in 20 minutes really we've got to play things that people know and we'll recognize, you know in
Turkey or wherever they're watching maybe
So we're still squabbling over that fact, that's what you're saying
You're known for the spectacle of your life performances for the backdrops and the expansive lighting rigs
Is it going to be difficult to cope with the sort of sparsity of Wembley?
Well comes down if you can play or not really which is nice really in a way because I think probably
there's probably an element of people who think that groups like us can't do it without the
Extravagant backdrop, but we'll see
After 13 years, do you still get excited about this sort of live performance?
This one especially has great.
Yes, we still like to play and fool around
What about the number that you two are going to be performing towards the end towards the finale?
What's the story behind that?
well, actually it seems that
It looks as if we actually wrote it for this occasion
But we didn't actually it was done a long time before that.
It seems to fit the bill actually, so I think
They opted out and said well, why don't the two of us because I mean during a Queen show
[Dm] [Ab] It's just the two of us that actually playing Roger and John actually [Gbm] go have a drink or something
[N] But so we weren't really going to do that one, but it seems to be
Very sort of a part of the show.
It's very meaningful and so we're gonna do it.
Tell me a little bit about it
No
It came about when we'd almost finished recording the album that works actually and
We've been throwing stuff off because there wasn't room for it and the end we threw off so much that
We said there's a little hole here.
Just need something and actually Mac who's producing us
said why don't you do something really simple, you know, just just write a song and
Freddie and I were there late one night and we just came up with this thing.
It was very quick and
We just had this particular thing in mind, you know, the whole business of Africa was in our minds and
That's the way it came out
Saturday is meant to be all for a good cause and there aren't meant to be any egos involved
But also no you guys at all, but are so many superstars gonna find it difficult in each other's sort of personal spaces
Hilarious chaos, I think it's gonna be chaotic.
Yes.
Yes has to be I mean we're not
We're not all wonderfully
Well behaved kids are we it was just but that that's that's going to sort of actually be the nice part of it
actually, there's be lots of friction and
We're all gonna try not to each other I guess
We're just gonna go and play.
That's right.
You want to give something special really?
That's what it's about.
Not the regular thing
Everybody's gonna be out there
Giving their best and that's what it's about make some money for those people that's as Geldorf says
That's what it comes down to you know, we can all have a great time
I think we will but it comes down to the fact.
It's gonna make tons of money [Bb] and
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_ _ _ It was actually the BPI Awards that we went to collect an award and Geldof was at a few tables away and came over and said
How about doing this this thing?
We're gonna have this and this and this and this and we said, oh, yeah, I'm sure you know
Thinking that it was an almost impossible thing to get together, but we said yeah, we'd be interested
Then a bit later when he rang up and said look Brian
I have to have a commitment, you know
And so we sort of talked about it a bit more and it seemed like we were all very keen to do it
[G] Is that because you support the cause and want to do your bit or because it's such a unique rock event that you can't afford
to miss out in a way _ _
To answer that honestly, it's a bit of both actually because I think
It is a very good cause and initially I think we would have liked to have taken part in band-aid
single but I think we were in separate parts of the globe and
so the second
Bash at it was was this thing and also the fact that some of the biggest
Best known groups around the world taking part.
Why not us?
So I think
It makes me personally proud to sort of be part of it
[D] Is it difficult to choose numbers for a 20-minute set?
Do you find that you have to stick to your best known numbers?
[N] We've just been talking about that.
It's pretty hard to make the choice
Yes, you don't quite quite what to do, you know whether to play the hits or or to try and do something new
But I think in 20 minutes really we've got to play things that people know and we'll recognize, you know in
Turkey or wherever they're watching maybe
So we're still squabbling over that fact, that's what you're saying
You're known for the spectacle of your life performances for the backdrops and the expansive lighting rigs
Is it going to be difficult to cope with the sort of sparsity of Wembley?
Well comes down if you can play or not really which is nice really in a way because I think probably
there's probably an element of people who think that groups like us can't do it without the
Extravagant backdrop, but we'll see
_ After 13 years, do you still get excited about this sort of live performance?
This one especially has great.
Yes, we still like to play and fool around
What about the number that you two are going to be performing towards the end towards the finale?
What's the story behind that?
well, actually it seems that
It looks as if we actually wrote it for this occasion
But we didn't actually it was done a long time before that.
It seems to fit the bill actually, so I think
They opted out and said well, why don't the two of us because I mean during a Queen show
[Dm] [Ab] It's just the two of us that actually playing Roger and John actually [Gbm] go have a drink or something
[N] But so we weren't really going to do that one, but it seems to be
Very sort of a part of the show.
It's very meaningful and so we're gonna do it.
Tell me a little bit about it _ _ _
No
It came about when we'd almost finished recording the album that works actually and
We've been throwing stuff off because there wasn't room for it and the end we threw off so much that
We said there's a little hole here.
Just need something and actually Mac who's producing us
said why don't you do something really simple, you know, just just write a song and
Freddie and I were there late one night and we just came up with this thing.
It was very quick and
We just had this particular thing in mind, you know, the whole business of Africa was in our minds and
That's the way it came out
Saturday is meant to be all for a good cause and there aren't meant to be any egos involved
But also no you guys at all, but are so many superstars gonna find it difficult in each other's sort of personal spaces _
Hilarious chaos, I think it's gonna be chaotic.
Yes.
Yes has to be I mean we're not
We're not all wonderfully
Well behaved kids are we it was just but that that's that's going to sort of actually be the nice part of it
actually, there's be lots of friction and
We're all gonna try not to each other I guess
_ We're just gonna go and play.
That's right.
You want to give something special really?
That's what it's about.
Not the regular thing
_ Everybody's gonna be out there
Giving their best and that's what it's about make some money for those people that's as Geldorf says
That's what it comes down to you know, we can all have a great time
I think we will but it comes down to the fact.
It's gonna make tons of money [Bb] and
How about doing this this thing?
We're gonna have this and this and this and this and we said, oh, yeah, I'm sure you know
Thinking that it was an almost impossible thing to get together, but we said yeah, we'd be interested
Then a bit later when he rang up and said look Brian
I have to have a commitment, you know
And so we sort of talked about it a bit more and it seemed like we were all very keen to do it
[G] Is that because you support the cause and want to do your bit or because it's such a unique rock event that you can't afford
to miss out in a way _ _
To answer that honestly, it's a bit of both actually because I think
It is a very good cause and initially I think we would have liked to have taken part in band-aid
single but I think we were in separate parts of the globe and
so the second
Bash at it was was this thing and also the fact that some of the biggest
Best known groups around the world taking part.
Why not us?
So I think
It makes me personally proud to sort of be part of it
[D] Is it difficult to choose numbers for a 20-minute set?
Do you find that you have to stick to your best known numbers?
[N] We've just been talking about that.
It's pretty hard to make the choice
Yes, you don't quite quite what to do, you know whether to play the hits or or to try and do something new
But I think in 20 minutes really we've got to play things that people know and we'll recognize, you know in
Turkey or wherever they're watching maybe
So we're still squabbling over that fact, that's what you're saying
You're known for the spectacle of your life performances for the backdrops and the expansive lighting rigs
Is it going to be difficult to cope with the sort of sparsity of Wembley?
Well comes down if you can play or not really which is nice really in a way because I think probably
there's probably an element of people who think that groups like us can't do it without the
Extravagant backdrop, but we'll see
_ After 13 years, do you still get excited about this sort of live performance?
This one especially has great.
Yes, we still like to play and fool around
What about the number that you two are going to be performing towards the end towards the finale?
What's the story behind that?
well, actually it seems that
It looks as if we actually wrote it for this occasion
But we didn't actually it was done a long time before that.
It seems to fit the bill actually, so I think
They opted out and said well, why don't the two of us because I mean during a Queen show
[Dm] [Ab] It's just the two of us that actually playing Roger and John actually [Gbm] go have a drink or something
[N] But so we weren't really going to do that one, but it seems to be
Very sort of a part of the show.
It's very meaningful and so we're gonna do it.
Tell me a little bit about it _ _ _
No
It came about when we'd almost finished recording the album that works actually and
We've been throwing stuff off because there wasn't room for it and the end we threw off so much that
We said there's a little hole here.
Just need something and actually Mac who's producing us
said why don't you do something really simple, you know, just just write a song and
Freddie and I were there late one night and we just came up with this thing.
It was very quick and
We just had this particular thing in mind, you know, the whole business of Africa was in our minds and
That's the way it came out
Saturday is meant to be all for a good cause and there aren't meant to be any egos involved
But also no you guys at all, but are so many superstars gonna find it difficult in each other's sort of personal spaces _
Hilarious chaos, I think it's gonna be chaotic.
Yes.
Yes has to be I mean we're not
We're not all wonderfully
Well behaved kids are we it was just but that that's that's going to sort of actually be the nice part of it
actually, there's be lots of friction and
We're all gonna try not to each other I guess
_ We're just gonna go and play.
That's right.
You want to give something special really?
That's what it's about.
Not the regular thing
_ Everybody's gonna be out there
Giving their best and that's what it's about make some money for those people that's as Geldorf says
That's what it comes down to you know, we can all have a great time
I think we will but it comes down to the fact.
It's gonna make tons of money [Bb] and