Programming Note: Watch CNN Original Series “Live Aid: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took On the World,” celebrating the definitive story of how two rockstars inspired the largest global music events in history.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "We were all forming a sort of a rut," Mercury said at the time. "I wanted to get out of this last 10 years of what we were doing.

Queen might have delivered a stunningly powerful performance at Wembley Stadium during Live Aid 1985, but contrary to rock ‘n’ roll legend, the British rock band wasn’t the reason that phone lines ...