European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                To by Samuel Freedman new York times it was the word on everybody lips at the live Aid concert two saturdays ago in Woodstock said Rock Star Neil its your Singer Joan Baez told the crowd in John Kennedy seventeen Earold Tom Teter of agreed its our and its just As the organizers consciously darkened to the 1969 a counterculture conclave that resulted in the term Woodstock nation for americas and certainly live Aid As an a addressed the desire of Many fans to enact their vision of the but if Woodstock was the Point of reference for the Mammoth live Aid shows in Philadelphia and London seen by fans in Kennedy and Wembley stadiums and an estimated billion on a worldwide television broadcast it was not necessarily the if the distance from a rain soaked Dairy farm in to a state theart stage in Philadelphia is measured in much More than 16 years and a few Hundred Between then and Rock n Roll has moved from the Youthful fringe into the vast Middle ground of american culture and its audience and in Many performers turned from social rebels to solid Woodstock was on the surface an apolitical promising merely three Days of music and which took on enormous resonance More by what it represented than by what it said live Aid was a political event in that it was created solely to raise Money for african famine Relief largely appealed to fans As a youve got to face the reality of the said Bill the people Are concerned about the plight in but if there was no wed have sold As Many the Woodstock generation at left drugs and peace through the crowd at live Aid Beer and a Celebration of live Aid and Woodstock Rock n Roll comes of age whatever the the Harvest was in a single live Aid raised an estimated far outstripping the figure from such renowned Rock Charity events As George Harrisons 1971 concert for the differences Between Woodstock and live which is to say Between America in 1969 and America in show up in Many specific ways Woodstock was a anarchic happening that sprawled Over three Days live aids 14hour Philadelphia concert ran Only three minutes where hippie entrepreneurs sold hallucinogens at Woodstock there were two drug related deaths the drug of Choice at live Aid was the crowd at live Aid had Short hair and waved the stars and live Aid was the kind of Rock concert even a Parent could like the typical Parent of teenage children today grew up on the Bob Dylan and Elvis and that was part of the packaging of live this show was designed to be most appreciated by a said Michael president of worldwide sports and the company that produced the its their music Joan Mick Bob we took a lot of performers from 1960 to 1980 and very few if the show aimed Only at the kids the 18yearolds wed have a they dont give it offered the reunions of period bands such As the led Zeppelin and Nash and they also threw the passage of time into Clear David Stephen Graham Nash and Neil Young played together in Public for the first time at by the time they Nash was grading at the stills had a double Crosby had been convicted on drug and gun Possession charges and Young had endorsed Ronald Reagan for another part of the nostalgia for the 60s is the desire for a sense of and the african like the Campaign for american institutions to divest themselves of their holdings in South provided a rallying Baez said she doubted How much saturdays audience really shared with the at i wondered what kind of problems they she said of the live Aid at you had the rebellion against bad acid a Rainbow of these kids in Philadelphia had cooled out to feel Good about its not easy to ruffle other observers attacked what they saw As the concerts calculated show of said Greil author of mystery train and Rock music columnist for Art forum it was an enormous orgy of self what seems is that live Aid deeply changed the rules of what a Rock concert while Woodstock ushered in the Era of the Gargantuan outdoor festival powder Ridge and Watkins Glen followed live Aid was a Case of what Neil Young called High tech meeting the if the concert itself was modelled on the broadcast borrowed More from the 1984 olympics and the Jerry Lewis the fact that Rock n Roll was the esperanto of the global Village was itself the concert was carried by network pm Rock stations and a 24hour Rock Cable station manifestations of a Roc based Economy that was Only in its infancy during the music Industry was looked at on such a High said who began promoting Rock concerts 20 years and the world at Large realizes there Are people in our Industry who do things about their for the world i work this was our finest by jury stripes Magazine 17