She told me Freddie had been slightly miffed at not being invited to record Do They Know It’s Christmas?
“Nobody knew at the time, but Queen were very much on the wane at this point”, Lesley Ann says.
15 years into their career, and they were looking like more of a heritage act than a serious contemporary force.
Paul Gambaccini was one of the BBC’s big hitters who was assigned to cover Live Aid from Wembley Stadium.
“I went up to Wembley to interview the artists backstage for television and radio,” he told me.
His doctor told him not to do the show, but of course he was determined to do it anyway.”
“At the time you thought, ‘Who’s going to be the hottest?’ Obviously U2, and Phil Collins was really hot. »