Live Aid 1985 on blu ray when?

[r44a]

hello
guys when Live Aid 1985 on Blu-ray discsss?

https://www.amazon.com/Live-Aid-4-Di.../dp/B0002Z9HT8

[r44a]

DVD version

[r44a]

WHEEEEEN , full blu-ray with that?

[Flash3000]

music was my hobby as teenager and I remember sleeping over a friend's house whose parents were very easy going and staying up all night watching this. I have the DVD but Blu-ray would be awesome with better audio.

[OceanBlue]

Thought there was an existing discussion thread in DVD Movies for the DVD releases of the Live Aid concerts (no search results there, but I found this Wish Lists thread).

I know there was a new documentary shown on television here a few months ago about the fortieth anniversary of the Band Aid charity single Do They Know It's Christmas?, but is one being made about the US's equivalent (We Are the World by USA for Africa)? I ask, because this July marks the fortieth anniversary of the two Live Aid concerts (I remember seeing some of the Wembley Stadium concert on television but not any of the Philadelphia concert).

I knew there was a DVD release some time ago about the Live Aid concerts, but I never ended up getting it. Having checked the database here, there was a DVD release over twenty years ago.

[drush9999]

Well we'd never get the Led Zeppelin set for starters, and poor Phil Collins will still get the blame.

[navydavey]

I still don't know why 2 songs from Ultravox's 4 track set didn't make the cut on the DVD boxset, seems odd considering Midge Ure's involvement with Live Aid..

I still haven't seen/heard the Led Zeppelin set but I've read about the blame Phil gets for it, there's often conflicting reports of Zep being under rehearsed and Phil not knowing the songs. I can't imagine the issue would rest solely with him though, but then I love Phil and am indifferent to Zeppelin.

I'd welcome a more complete blu-ray set if it ever happened.

[Shane Rollins]

Sorry to be Mr. Negative here, but I know a thing or two about Live Aid, and it's not pretty.

As part of the deal to do Live Aid, Bob Geldof agreed that the master tapes would be wiped afterwards, to avoid any of the messy music rights from all those acts.

Regarding the four "main" broadcasts - BBC TV and BBC radio in the UK, ABC and MTV in the US - you have a better chance of finding high-quality, off-air recordings of all four broadcasts than you do of the raw masters resurfacing. Frankly, it would take a miracle for those master tapes to still exist and to be found.

There were also performances in Australia, Japan, Austria, The Netherlands, Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, West Germany, Norway, a studio (Kool & the Gang), and Cliff Richard from the United Kingdom. I have no clue what the status of those performances is.

In addition, it was broadcast in 24 total countries. I have no clue what the other 22 did to record it.

There was sadly no raw, unedited recording of Live Aid ever, unlike Woodstock for example, where everything but one and a half songs exist on audio and well over half of it exists on film.

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

[Show spoiler]Live Aid recordings
When organiser Bob Geldof was persuading artists to take part in the concert, he promised them that it would be a one-off event, never to be seen again. Hence, the concert was never recorded in its complete original form, and only secondary television broadcasts were recorded. Following Geldof's request, ABC erased its own broadcast tapes. However, before the syndicated/ABC footage was erased, copies of it were donated to the Smithsonian Institution and have now been presumed lost. The ABC feed of the USA for Africa/"We Are The World" finale does exist in its entirety, complete with the network end credits, and can be found as a supplemental feature on the We Are The World: The Story Behind The Song DVD.

Meanwhile, MTV decided to keep recordings of its broadcast and eventually located more than 100 tapes of Live Aid in its archives, but many songs in these tapes were cut short by MTV's ad breaks and presenters (according to the BBC). Many performances from the US were not shown on the BBC, and recordings of these performances are missing. There were four separate Audio Trucks in Philadelphia provided by David Hewitt of Remote Recording Services. ABC had taken the decision that no multi track tape recordings would be allowed, so no remixing of the Philadelphia show was possible.

Official Live Aid DVD
An official four-disc DVD set of the Live Aid concerts was released on 8 November 2004. A premiere to launch the new DVD was held on 7 November and shown in DTS surround sound featuring a short compilation of the four-disc set. The screening was held at the Odeon Cinema in Kensington, London and included guests such as Brian May, Anita Dobson, Roger Taylor, Bob Geldof and partner Jean Marie, Annie Lennox, Midge Ure, Michael Buerk, Gary Kemp and The Darkness. Other theatrical premieres were held in Zürich, Milan, Rome, Vienna, Hamburg and Berlin. A 52-minute compilation was later released as a limited edition DVD in July 2005 titled 20 Years Ago Today: Live Aid. The box set contains 10-hour partial footage of the 16-hour length concert. The DVD was produced by Geldof's company, Woodcharm Ltd., and distributed by Warner Music Vision. The DVD has since been out of print and is no longer available in stores. The decision to finally release it was taken by Bob Geldof nearly 20 years after the original concerts after he found a number of unlicensed copies of the concert on the Internet.

The most complete footage that exists is used from the BBC source, and this was the main source of the DVD. During production of the official DVD, MTV lent Woodcharm Ltd. their B-roll and alternate camera footage where MTV provided extra footage of the Philadelphia concert (where ABC had erased the tapes from the command of Bob Geldof). Songs that were not originally interrupted with advertisements were also used on the official DVD.

Working from the BBC and MTV footage, several degrees of dramatic licence were taken to release the concert on DVD. Many songs had their soundtracks altered for the DVD release, mainly in sequences where there were originally microphone problems. In one of those instances, Paul McCartney had re-recorded his failed vocals for "Let It Be" in a studio the day after the concert (14 July 1985). Beatles biographer Keith Badman explains, "because of what happened, he decided to re-record his vocals for any future film of the concert. That's the version you'll hear when the DVD comes out." Also, in the US finale, the original USA for Africa studio track for "We Are the World" was overlaid in places where the microphone was absent (consequently, it includes the vocals of Kenny Rogers and James Ingram, two artists who did not even take part in Live Aid).

Some artists did not want their performances to be featured on the DVD. At their own request, Led Zeppelin and Santana were omitted. The former defended their decision not to be included on the grounds that their performance was "sub-standard", but to lend their support, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant pledged to donate proceeds from the DVD release of Page & Plant: No Quarter to the campaign, and John Paul Jones pledged proceeds from his American tour with Mutual Admiration Society.

Judicious decisions were also made on which acts would be included and which ones would not due to either technical difficulties in the original performances, the absence of original footage, or music rights reasons. Rick Springfield, the Four Tops, the Hooters, the Power Station, Billy Ocean and Kool and the Gang were among those acts that were left off the DVD. Several artists who did feature on the DVD also had songs that were performed omitted. Madonna performed three solo songs in the concert, but only two were included on the DVD ("Love Makes the World Go Round" was omitted). Phil Collins played "Against All Odds" and "In the Air Tonight" at both Wembley and JFK, but only the London performance of the former and the Philadelphia performance of the latter were included on the DVD. The JFK performance of "Against All Odds" was later included in Collins' Finally ... The First Farewell Tour DVD. Tom Petty performed four songs, and only two were included on DVD. Patti LaBelle played six songs, but only two songs were included.

In 2007, Queen released a special edition of Queen Rock Montreal on Blu-ray and DVD formats containing their 1981 concert from The Forum in Montreal, Canada, and their complete Live Aid performance, along with Freddie Mercury and Brian May performing "Is This the World We Created...?" from the UK Live Aid finale, all re-mixed in DTS 5.1 sound by Justin Shirley-Smith. Also included is their Live Aid rehearsal and an interview with the band from earlier in the week.

On its release, the then British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, decided the VAT collected on sales of the Live Aid DVD would be given back to the charity, which would raise an extra £5 for every DVD sold.

On 14 November 2004, the DVD entered the UK Official Music Video Chart at number one and stayed in the top position for twelve consecutive weeks.

So not only is the DVD horrendously edited, but it seems it was derived from a PAL broadcast. (For the record, I've never seen nor owned the DVD.) This wouldn't cause a problem when playing it on PAL equipment (native 25fps), but when playing it on NTSC equipment (native 24fps), there would likely be issues.

I'd love for all this to be wrong, and for complete tapes to surface, but sadly I'm about 99% sure that won't happen.