Freddie Mercury – Queen at Live Aid tops Brit ballot of best competition moments
Once once more the summer time is right here and with the sunny climate additionally comes competition season.
Over the final 50 years, there have been some iconic stay music moments, together with at this yr’s Glastonbury.
In reality, Sir Elton John’s final UK gig at Worthy Farm final month has been voted the second most iconic competition second ever, in keeping with 2000 Brits polled by Specsavers.
Yet Rocketman’s 29 per cent of the vote couldn’t be overwhelmed by the 35 per cent for Freddie Mercury and Queen’s monumental Live Aid set, which was recreated for his or her biopic Bohemian Rhapsody just a few years in the past.
During that unbelievable efficiency at Wembley Stadium again in 1985, the band carried out Bohemian Rhapsody, Radio Ga Ga, Hammer to Fall, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions.
According to the brand new ballot, 83 per cent of Brits suppose that festivals are the best strategy to see stay music and over half say it is likely one of the foremost issues they love to do in the summertime.
Alongside Queen and Elton John within the Top 30 most iconic competition moments ever are the likes of Adele, The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix.
However, not each second is a musical efficiency, with Greta Thunberg’s 2022 Glastonbury speech making the record alongside others. Check out the complete record of outcomes under.
THE TOP 30 MOST ICONIC FESTIVAL MOMENTS EVER ACCORDING TO BRITS:
1. Queen’s Live Aid in 1985 – 35%
2. Elton John’s final UK gig headlining Sunday night time at Glastonbury 2023 – 29%
3. Adele’s show-stopping Glastonbury efficiency in 2016 – 15%
4. Oasis’s first Glastonbury efficiency in 1994 – 12%
5. Bob Marley performing two days after being shot at Smile Jamaica in 1976 – 12%
6. The Rolling Stones Glastonbury debut in 2013 – 11%
7. Beyonce being the primary black, feminine solo artist to headline Glastonbury in 2011 – 11%
8. Jimi Hendrix burning his guitar at Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 – 10%
9. Jimi Hendrix singing ‘Star Spangled Banner’ at Woodstock in 1969 – 10%
10. Kylie Minogue’s Sunday Legends set at Glastonbury 2019 14 years after she was initially set to seem – 9%
11. The Foo Fighters making a shock look on the 2023 Glastonbury as ‘The Churn Ups’ – 9%
12. Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain taking to the stage in a wheelchair and hospital robe at Reading in 1992, in what could be their final
efficiency within the UK – 8%
13. Eminem and Rihanna duetting at V Festival in 2011 – 8%
14. Stevie Wonder wishing Glastonbury a contented fortieth birthday in 2010 – 8%
15. Beyonce bringing out Destiny’s Child at Coachella in 2018 – 7%
16. Led Zeppelin’s three hour and 5 encore set on the Bath Festival in 1970 – 7%
17. Greta Thunberg’s speech at Glastonbury in 2022 – 6%
18. Bob Dylan on the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 – 6%
19. Jay Z bringing hip-hop to Glastonbury in 2008 for the primary time – 6%
20. Jay Z bringing Michael Jackson on stage at Summer Jam in 2001 – 6%
21. Radiohead headlining Glastonbury in 1997 – 6%
22. Eminem returning to the stage at Lollapalooza in 2011 – 5%
23. Billie Eilish headlining Reading and Leeds in 2019 – 5%
24. Rage Against The Machine showing bare with their mouths taped at Lollapalooza in 1993 – 4%
25. 2Pac resurrected at Coachella in 2012 – 4%
26. Lana Del Rey taking part in Latitude in 2019 – 4%
27. Stone Roses dangerous set at Reading Festival in 1996 – 4%
28. Kanye West’s 11-minute monologue on the Big Chill in 2011 – 3%
29. Avicii bringing out Madonna on the Ultra Music Festival in 2012 – 3%
30. Daft Punk’s Pyramid set at Coachella in 2006 – 3%