LIVE AID

MTV BROADCAST

DETAILED BREAKDOWN

This is a virtual minute by minute breakdown of the entire MTV broadcast of Live Aid (July 13, 1985).  All of the commercials and appeals for donations have been edited out...nothing but the artists' performances.

TAPE ONE

Intro - 3 min

Status Quo - 7 min

Style Council - 5 min - cuts away to...

Interview with Bill Graham - 3 min - cuts back to...

Style Council - 4 min

Boomtown Rats - 15 min

Men At Work (pre-recorded from Australia) - 1 min

Ultravox - 13 min

Spandau Ballet - 13 min - cuts away to...

Jack Nicholson intro at JFK

Elvis Costello (joined in progress) - 3 min

Interview with Bob Geldoff - 1 min

Nik Kershaw - 8 min

The Four Tops - 5 min

BB King (pre-recorded from Holland) - 4 min

Billy Ocean - 3 min

Black Sabbath - 13 min

CHANGE TO TAPE TWO

TAPE TWO

Run DMC - 1 min

Sting & Phil Collins - 27 min

REO Speedwagon - 10 min

Brian Ferry - 4 min - cuts away to...

Crosby, Stills, & Nash - 7 min - cuts back to...

Brian Ferry - 4 min

Judas Priest (including interview with Rob Halford) - 15 min

Paul Young - 5 min

Brian Adams - 16 min

U2 - 19 min

Beach Boys (part 1) - 5 min

CHANGE TO TAPE THREE

Beach Boys (part 2) - 3 min

Dire Straits - 19 min

George Thorogood - 12 min

Queen - 13 min - cuts away to...

MTV VJ's talking, then cuts back to...

Queen - 2 min

Simple Minds - 12 min

David Bowie - 18 min

The Pretenders - 8 min

The Who - 2 min - sattelite feed drops, then...

back to The Who - 8 min - sattelite feed drops again for 50 seconds...

back to The Who - 7 min

CHANGE TO TAPE FOUR

TAPE FOUR

Santana & Pat Matheny - 9 min

Sade (recorded highlight) - 4 min - cuts away to...

Elton John - 25 min

Interview with Bryan Adams - 2 min

Madonna - 22 min

Paul McCartney/Wembley Finale - 10 min

Tom Petty - 19 min

Kenny Loggins - 3 min

The Cars - 16 min

Neil Young (part 1) - 8 min

CHANGE TO TAPE FIVE

Neil Young (part 2) - 12 min

Power Station - 12 min

Thompson Twins - 12 min

Eric Clapton - 16 min

Phil Collins - 9 min

Led Zeppelin - 21 min

Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young - 7 min

Duran Duran - 22 min

CHANGE TO TAPE SIX

Patti Labelle - 9 min

Autograph (pre-recorded from Moscow) - 3 min

Hall & Oates/The Temptations - 22 min

Mick Jagger/Tina Turner - 20 min

Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, & Ron Wood - 14 min

We Are The World Finale - 9 min

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