{"id":2342,"date":"2007-08-03T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T01:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2007-08-03T21:51:37","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T01:51:37","slug":"radio-ga-ga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2007\/08\/03\/radio-ga-ga\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Ga Ga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I moved from rock to folk in the 70&#8217;s and missed Queen altogether.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia: &#8220;Freddy Mercury is noted for his live performances, which were often delivered to stadium audiences around the world. As a performer, he displayed a highly theatrical style that often invoked a great deal of participation from the crowd. One of Mercury&#8217;s most notable performances took place at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lDckgX3oU_w\" title=\"Radio Ga Ga\" target=\"_blank\">Live Aid in 1985,<\/a> during which the entire stadium audience of 72,000 people clapped, sang, and swayed in unison. Mercury&#8217;s performance at the event has since been voted as the greatest live performance in the history of rock music.[18][19] In reviewing Live Aid in 2005, one critic wrote, &#8220;Those who compile lists of Great Rock Frontmen and award the top spots to Mick Jagger, Robert Plant et al. are guilty of a terrible oversight. Freddie, as evidenced by his Dionysian Live Aid performance, was easily the most godlike of them all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>***************<\/p>\n<p>A few more photos from our weekend in Plymouth.<\/p>\n<p>First, the <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/blog_photos\/misc\/plymouth_pano.jpg\" title=\"Pano\" target=\"_blank\">wide view<\/a> and then a short <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/blog_photos\/fisherman\/album\/\" title=\"Fisher gallery\" target=\"_blank\">gallery<\/a> of those fisherman. <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/blog_photos\/fisherman\/album\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Photos\"> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I moved from rock to folk in the 70&#8217;s and missed Queen altogether. Wikipedia: &#8220;Freddy Mercury is noted for his live performances, which were often delivered to stadium audiences around the world. As a performer, he displayed a highly theatrical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2007\/08\/03\/radio-ga-ga\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}