Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Live-Aid (some random thoughts) Message-ID: <1222@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 07:56:50 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxd.1222 Posted: Tue Jul 16 07:56:50 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 04:50:48 EDT References: <389@petfe.UUCP> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 21 MTV coverage and regular commercial TV coverage were different, both uneven, and strangely enough, about half a second apart: if you switched back between MTV and channel 5 (NYC) e.g., you noticed a half-second delay in MTV. Anybody know why? MTV decided to give us a whole block of over a hour at once, and so just after that THEY missed the Pretenders, who were on the regular stations. Network coverage was abysmal (I hear they broke in IN THE MIDDLE of Stairway to Heaven). I missed the Who completely, but saw a mediocre performance of "WGFA". They weren't all that good at Kampuchea either, and bitterness between Daltrey and Townsend must have hurt some. Question: MTV kept mentioning a John Lennon feel running through the whole affair. Was it deliberate that so many artists covered Lennon tunes. (Elvis Costello - "All You Need Is Love", Thompson Twins - "Revolution" (???), Patti Labelle - "Imagine") I recall some more, does anyone have a list? -- Anything's possible, but only a few things actually happen. Rich Rosen pyuxd!rlr