FREDDIE MAY HAVE SEDUCED THE PLANET... BUT LIVE AID WAS MUCH BIGGER THAN QUEEN

If you were at Wembley Stadium four decades ago today on July 13, 1985, as I was, or if you watched the concert on television, you'll remember a day of musical exuberance the likes of which the world had never seen.

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You may recall that Freddie Mercury and his band were the loudest, the most dominant, but that Bowie stole the show; that Duran Duran's Simon le Bon sang a bum note that still reverberates; that Bono and U2 crossed the rubicon and became superstars.

You may have read and absorbed all that was later revealed, but you gave Sir Bob the benefit of the doubt because he did something, got off his backside, raised all those millions of pounds and actually saved lives. It wasn't nothing.

'A vast amount of good arose from it'

Maybe you haven't cared to think too much about what was really going on.

Perhaps your memory replays Jagger and Bowie dancing in the street instead.