Rossi said of Freddie Mercury: “As everyone was decamping out of Live Aid, Freddie bent me over a desk, in a half-nelson, held me down and I couldn’t move. Fuck, he was strong!” But there was one star ...

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Queen's iconic performance at Live Aid in 1985 was completely improvised by Freddie Mercury, and it left Brian May absolutely stunned.

First, a confession: I wasn’t even alive when Queen played Live Aid. I was born three years later in 1988, three years before Mercury died of bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS. My first ...