Roger Waters - Backstage Interview (Live Aid 1985)
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- The Live Aid event was set up in front of 72,000 people in Wembley Stadium, London on the 13th July, 1985. Here’s Roger Waters being interviewed backstage. The event was organised by Sir Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for the Ethiopian famine disaster. Broadcast across the world via one of the largest satellite link-ups of all time, the concerts were seen by around 40% of the global population.
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I love that David and Roger both looked like Miami Vice villains in the 80s
This is so accurate lmao
😅😅😅
Hahaha 😂
@@gadDenmark did roger waters ever met freddie mercury
Villains? They looked just like Crockett and Tubbs.
I like to imagine a parallel universe in which Roger didn't leave Pink Floyd and they played together at Live Aid as they were about to release a new album with Rick Wright back in the band too.
They did at Live 8 in 2005
Roger asked to play Live Aid but with what would become his Bleeding Heart Band. Geldof and Goldsmith respectfully told him that they weren't that interested but if the other members of Pink Floyd agreed to perform a slot would found for them, probably at Philly as unlike Wembley it's bill was still in flux with the final bill only being confirmed around two weeks before the show (even then Tears For Fears pulled out at two days notice and were replaced with George Thorogood and the Destroyers)
@@ridethelightning7979
Roger Waters did part ways with PF & a reunion didn't happen at Live Aid.
What is wrong with u ppl who go around on yt forsaking basic reading comprehension skills bc of some perverted need to incorrectly reply to comments that were never made. It seems like u all have some obsessive compulsive need to be a online jack-a.
@@DBMe33 @ridethelightning’s comment is 100% accurate. So, you’re either a troll or a dope.
@@DBMe33 it’s really funny that you mention “Basic reading comprehension skills” in your insult because he said “Live 8”, at which Pink Floyd did appear in their prime lineup for the last time, not “Live Aid”, a show that took place about 20 years before “Live 8”.
When Roger speaks with women his whole persona changes it fascinating to watch
@MetallicBill Paula Yates was a firecracker
In all fairness....back then *everybody* at Live Aid was nice to Paula. Not only was she an absolute knockout, but she was also Geldof's wife. Lol.
You’re right lol I always think of her and Michael Hutchinson 😬I kinda forget about the whole ass family she had with bob
As long as that woman isn't Polly.
Yeah like a 15 year old lol
Incredible. Had no idea Roger was at Live Aid.
yea how could an easter island statue make it all the way to london
BWHAHHA!!!
Funny to hear Roger mention Queen, and that their act was being talked about as a highlight even before the event ended.
Robert Plant was apparently watching with the rest of Led Zeppelin, and he apparently said “We have to top that!” They failed. Badly.
@@queenfan45 Queen were given artificial elavation by Geldof and allowed to turn their volume up higher than other bands.
Apparently Geldof started demanding a band should headline it appearing more prominent than other bands which is oddly elitist for a communist meant to have just given everyone 15 mins to play whilst also spitefully cutting Adam Ants set to just one song though he was arguably the most popular pop star of early to mid 80s.
@@wotdoesthisbuttondo not what happened at all, the sound engineer working the desk for the day was a member of Queen's touring crew so he turn the volume up a notch, but blasting bad music at a higher volume doesnt make it good, Queen stole the show regardless of that and it's easy to see why on the footage where the volume is normalised
@@mouloudo He obviously got permission or was told to.
@@mouloudo agree with you completely.. lots of things have been said about the volume thing..Roger Taylor himself said Trip Kalaf.. Queens own soundman went up and turned the volume up..strange aside... the Daily Mail did their own investigation into it and asked an engineer about it and he said no way did that happen.. they wouldn't of allowed it.. whatever.. they smoked everyone!!!
This is ace I had no idea that Roger was there.
We have no idea who was backstage
At the beginning of the clip, he's with Andy Newmark who was his drummer at the time. Andy was playing with Bryan Ferry at Live Aid along with - shock horror - David Gilmour! This was 1985, PF only broke up in 1983 and Gilmour hadn't reformed the group yet...
@@Fakename70 there are a few videos with live aid's backstage. But obviously Roger was not part of that. Cool interview
Don’t go in the green room Roger, Roxy Music is there and you’ll never guess who is helping out on Guitar?
@@TweedSuit Roger didn't officially leave until December '85, five months after this.
I know Andy Newmark was the one having a dream about Yoko Ono which Roger included in the final verse of the title track of The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking.
The bitch said something mystical. [Herro!]
So I stepped back on the curb again.
I love how Roger says that he was there "to see the dinosaurs" lol. The Who is my favorite band too!
Dude’s older than all the members though 😂
They were considered dinosaurs too pretty sure that’s why he’d say it
@@Kylotheson I saw the Who "Live" at Giants Stadium , back in July of '89, when they were on a break from their Tommy 25 year anniversary tour at Radio City Music Hall. John Bonham's son filled in for Kieth Moon and the tailgate party started in the parking lot for like 3 days.
@MathematicalPhysics The pandemic put the 2020 World Tour on hold. RIP John Entwistle and Keith Moon.
I don't. When has that prick ever scissor kicked onstage? Or been scissor kicked? (Now there's a thought.)
Love how the Queen bit creeps up a little bit in the interview. It hadn't been a day and people were already commenting on it.
Roger aged like the finest wine
Turned to vinegar as the cork leaked
He’s gotten much better looking as he gets older, IMO. Shame that only happens with men!
@@camillazapolsky8940 One word: Elvira
@@seanj3667preach
@@camillazapolsky8940what a load of sexist crap. Men don't age well at all. Roger is a rare example of an unattractive man who aged well. Don't kiss men's behinds with lies.
"Are you going on at the end?" "No, I wasn't invited."
seeing on CZcams at METAL GIRLS LISTENING TO PINK FLOYD
The music that came from that mans mind, amazing....
I’m so glad this channel exists
Mid-80’s Roger - looking inexcusably Miami Vice.
Roger Gere
Richard Waters
Waters actually wrote a song about Live Aid, called 'The Tide is Turning (After Live Aid)'.
Great song!
Its a beautiful song.
1987...Radio Kaos Album, that's my favourite Roger solo album 😊
@@DUMPSTERDIVINGADELAIDE Mine as well.
@@DUMPSTERDIVINGADELAIDE
It’s a strange addition to that album. The tone was uncharacteristically uplifting in that it could almost fit right in with the album Pink Floyd had just released at the time.
Even Roger Waters wanted to look like Don Johnson in the 80s
Totally agree even me who were 14 at that time .. Don left his marks upon that decades
80s style. Miami vice was The 80 's brand
>stadium gigs lend to that thing
Flashback to the spit incident
you can tell hes thinking about that lol
"dont they"
With Andy Newmark at the beginning. One of the most sought-after session drummers.
waters is a genius.
Now THAT I can agree with. But please don't say Dylan is a genius. I beg of you.
@@HomeAtLast501 who? Bob?
@@simon-di7xt Yeah.
@@HomeAtLast501 Why? Bob was really a genius
@@simon-di7xt What exactly made him a genius? And how do you define genius?
i actually think waters is a good looking person
he looked really good after the wall
@@nigelpisswater484 he looks incredible good today, in his 70s. rare to see that ppl look so good in his age
looks better as he ages
Without doubt the best aged rock star around. Sting don’t look bad either after all the years.
@@daddypig.5796 agree
He sounds kind of uptight and a lot more posh than he does now.
Yes, we just witnessed how he answers the phone.
Not really.
Agreed he has changed his accent a a bit. Less public school.
He’s flirting with Paula
He changed his accent over the years. Here he sounds like Nick Mason does. I don't know about English accent names or such, but he sounds like him.
As much as I love these backstage interviews, post more performances!!
Wow. Nice to see Pink Floyd at Live Aid. Also nice to comment first.
They PERFORMED at LIVE 8
@funko freddie & co It was actually DAVID GILMOUR, who performed with Bryan Ferry that day.
If you read between the lines, Roger Waters was being slightly sarcastic when saying Queen's set and sing-a-long, clap hands anthemic one line ditties like We Will Rock You, lends itself perfectly to big stadium rock venues. People forget that Queen were very much on a downward spiral before Live Aid, and it was because of Mercury's performance on this day at Wembley that generated renewed interest in the group.
I wonder what were Roger thoughts on Queen as a band?
He said Mercury, Lennon and himself were the best songwriters since the war or something like that.
Also note that Andy Newmark played with Brian Farry and Gilmour on this concert. And Andy Newmark, played on both, Pros and Cons of hitchhicking and On an island. Chester Kamen was the second guitarist for Brian Farry here and he was with Gilmour on the 2016 tour.
I was trying to place that voice doing the interviewing. Only at the end was it obvious - Paula Yates
Rather nice of him to turn up to watch The Who, rather than sit at home and continue watching on TV. Some twenty years later he and the rest of Pink Floyd would follow The Who in closing out Live 8, with an epic performance. Once Geldolf convinced them all to make up that is. Still the most influence on Pink Floyd at their greatest.
For those who found his accent posh in the video (in the 80’s) I say I Found it sounding classy since the earlier years .. it’s since 90’s that he started sounding more American.. which Is natural cause he spent more time there ..
Looks like he could be in a new wave band haha that suit, the hair, the accent
Roger seems so much nicer in his younger years. He smiles more and is much warmer.
You're right. Usually people mellow with age - he seems to be full of anger.
He was a jerk and still busy with the lawsuit against the rest of PF during that time as he thought that only he is PF. But he filtered more his behavior depending on the situation.
If you think he's being nice in this video then you're obviously not noticing his subtle disdain for the interviewer. You've got it the wrong way round. Waters was a passive aggressive dick wrought with insecurities in his younger years. Since the late 90s he's been much more chill. I think he went through therapy. I know he's often seen ranting half-naked on Facebook and swearing like a, well, a Roger Waters, but I think on a personal level he's much, muuuuch more approachable these days. He's even said himself he's happier now than he's ever been.
@@Rondo2ooo Still is a jerk:
So Roger Waters and David Gilmour were both present at Live-Aid. I never knew this.
They were still all pretty young really.
Showbiz old comes earlier than regular old.
If the Who where dinosaurs in 1985, what does that make them in 2021?
Still dinosaurs. Dinosaurs were dinosaurs in Ancient Greek times too.
fossils
Still younger than Roger Waters
Old
Crude oil
Why is his voice so deep
Read years and years ago Roger was there and afterwards he wrote "Tide is Turning" never knew this interview was out there very cool
So, i seed Kylo Ren was in a band before he embraced the dark side.
.. and everyone around sensed it, so they didn't invite him..
you're obviously wrong ; he embraced the Dark Side in 1973
I didn't know Adam Driver was backstage at Live Aid!
He looks like Christian bale in American psycho
Drummer Andy Newmark at the beginning
I thought he was going to say that Bryan Ferry and David Gilmour were awful! LOL.
It is amazing that someone with the mannerisms and voice of Prince Charles decided to join a band.
My favorite band pink floyd
David Gilmour played with Bryan Ferry. Waters at this time thought Pink Floyd were finished but Gilmour and co proved him wrong.
Starckicker If Roger thought Pink Floyd had nothing more to say, he was right to leave the band. But he was completely wrong in trying to forbit the other three members from continuing to use the band name. The Pink Floyd were not a private property of Rogers Waters.
It is interesting to see that Roger actually came to live aid concert. He saw it as a positive event and when he was talking about the Who (the dinosaurs as he famously used the expression that was otherwise invented by Johnny Rotten to label the old, progresive bands like Yes, Genesis and also Pink Floyd) it could be almost sensed that he regretted not performing there with Pink Floyd. But then he decided to leave the group. Yes, David Gilmour was the only most active member of PF at Live aid concert. There he met the future PF live keyboardist Jon Carin, who was also playing with Brian Ferry. Roger was passive, slowly preparing to leave Pink Floyd, but he was active in other sense. He wrote a song The Tide Is Turning (for his next album Radio Kaos), a day after Live aid event. So, Roger was moved, inspired by the Live Aid creatively, politically and he wrote a great song about it. The song transcend the meaning of Live Aid as a moment when humanity do, wants to bring a change in the world and act for this change. It is a struggle, metal too, to arrive on this point in time to do so.
@@MedardKrzisnik I didn't know this beautiful song, thanks for suggesting. It would have been even more beautiful if it had been recorded by Pink Floyd with everyone's contribution: David that sings a verse and plays a great solo, keyboards and arrangements by Richard and Nick's drumming. Roger contradicted himself. On the one hand he behaved as if Pink Floyd were just his personal band and as if without him they could not exist, on the other he said that P.F had nothing more to say. But if Pink Floyd were him, he too had nothing more to say, so why did he still make records?
No, they didn’t
Roger was still in the band here. He didn't leave Pink Floyd until December, 1985.
And those dinosaurs are, 36 years later, STILL playing 😮
Rogers music accompanied me all my life❤ thank you Roger
please give us more roger content LMFAO
Who is that dude at the very beginning of the clip? He seems like a confident chap.
Is Paula Yates doing the interview?
Yes it was. I was trying to place the voice then saw her briefly at the end
wow there's also Roger too ?
I thought there was an actual band called the Dinosaurs. I started googling for the songs.
I didn't know he was referring to the Who.
I thought he meant all the old big acts like Led Zeppelin and the Who.
I wonder if Roger regrets not having Pink Floyd perform at Live Aid. They could have easily done the same set as they did for Live 8.
I don't think a reunion was possible backt then, but Roger could at least have perflrmed there on his own
@@patricksommer3971 He definitely would do it now. He shows up at damn near every charity concert
@@patricksommer3971 He supposedly tried to play as a solo act, but was denied. He was pretty much told "you aren't a big enough draw, but if you reunite Pink Floyd we'll have a spot for you". Obviously this didn't happen as Roger was done with the Floyd brand at this point
The Live 8 set was just irritating being same old stadium songs as usual.
@@queenfan45 Sounds like Billy no mates.
Roger looked so handsome in the mid 80s
His accent is very posh here.
Found it sounding classy since the earlier years .. it’s since 90’s that he started sounding more American
Is that Andy newmark at the beginning?
I think so...
Yes it is, he'd played the year before on Water's The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking and the year before that on Floyd's The Final Cut.
He was playing for Bryan Ferry that day along with David Gilmour and John Carin. Fantastic drummer. The list of records and bands he's been a part of is bloody impressive!
0.02 quality 'nose pinch' as was the style at the time. lovely stuff.
Who is that guy???
Paula Yates🦋RIP Roger is very James bond here lmao😎
Wonder if Gilmour was still at the stadium when Waters showed up
Wonder whether Roger ran in to David at the show ?
There would be a fist fight
''Ran in to David......with his fist.
@@dixienormous2440 Gilmour could have decked Waters any day.
woah i love this
So posh! And still so young. Amazing guy.
Being forty-two back then made you a "dinosaur". The world sure has moved on!
1874 please have a look on CZcams at METAL GIRLS LISTENING TO PINK FLOYD
IMMORTAL PINK FLOYD !! 🤘🏻
I never thought that roger had been to the concert that went with it, and it was a shame that a show could not have been given with or without pink floyd
Waters asked to play Live Aid but was told only if he got the post Syd Floyd line up back together as his solo material has never sold in massive quantities. He managed however to get the band back together 20 years later for Geldof's Live 8 show, where incidentally both Blur and The Spice Girls both asked to play but were similarly told "only if it's the full classic line up" (in the end both were no shows with Alex Coxon and Mel B being the respective hold outs)
@@desperatemohammedantheworl5833Keep in mind Gilmour had wanted to tour and release a live album for the 10th anniversary of Dark Side in '83, but Waters said no. Gilmour wanted to play Live Aid as Pink Floyd, Waters said no. Gilmour wanted to be involved with The Wall In Berlin, Waters said no. Gilmour invited Waters to perform with them and be on the live album for the 20th anniversary in '93, Waters said no. So Gilmour took some convincing to perform at Live 8. Immediately afterwards, Waters wanted to accept a $150 million dollar offer to tour Dark Side, and...Gilmour said no.
@@ziggyzipgunGilmour and Waters act like a divorced couple. First it was Waters who was bitter about the whole ordeal, then later Gilmour who wouldn’t let it go. They’re both extremely petty but not without cause
Lost an occasion for him to play, he refused to joined Pink Floyd.
Goddamn pride and egos.
Easily the COOLEST rock star that ever lived
how many rock stars have you seen? 3?
Although they’re my favourite band I have to agree to comment above me. There’s been some pretty fcking cool rock stars over the years. Roger is a way away from being the coolest in my opinion but he’s still cool as fk though.
Well my point is...
Listen to the stuff he produced by the time this interview even happened...listen to the wall... listen to animals...listen to the thin ice demo.... ridiculous shit!!!
Ummm... welcome to the machine...nuff said
@@MarkoStatues he's not easily the coolest rockstar in a world that elvis lived
Is that Paula yeats doing the interview ?
The nose job was a big improvement.
see at BLACK METAL TEENS HEARING PINK FLOYD
the Bowie-Jagger thing
*Lies* "I didn't see that"
Stone 🗿
Pink Floyd rules
Hot take
Pink Floyd
1967 - 1983
Forever in our hearts ❤
1965-1979. they were no longer Floyd when Rick Wright left.
Swear this dude looks different every video
no se que dice pero se ve hermoso
Stadium Gigs 😂😂😂😂😂 wasn’t his favourite topic at that time.
im going to guess pink floyd wasnt on the "invited" list..
looking at BLACK METAL TEENS HEARING PINK FLOYD
They disbanded after "The Final Cut" in 1984.
@TheAmarok87 Not quite - they never publicized Rick Wright's departure, and Roger was still very much a member at the time. Later in '85, Gilmour & Mason tried to get Waters to work on another Floyd album, and actually threatened to sue for lost wages if he didn't contribute material. Rog formally resigned from the band to avoid that, and by doing so, lost any claim to the Pink Floyd name. And they say he's a genius!
He sounds like Prince Charles.
Very British. 🇬🇧 🙂
Looks a bit like him too
❤⚘
as for an interview with the great Sir Elton john?
Why Is He Speaking In A Deeper Tone?
Roger's voice was starting to deepen around the mid-80s. If you listen carefully to interviews of him in the early 80s and then from the 90s onwards, his voice got noticeably deeper.
He's getting into middle age here. It's natural for a man's voice to lower as they age. That's why high pitched male singers start to have trouble with the high notes around his age. Just ask Steve Perry, Geddy Lee, etc. Their voices dramatically lowered with age.
He also did permanent damage to his voice while touring in 1984 and 1985.
Loved him in the Lep Movie!!
they should've swallowed their prides and play that day!
Who is the guy at the beginning? I can't place him.
I believe that would be Andy Newmark, who drummed on Pros and Cons
imagine if John Lennon sung?
He doesn't speak like that anymore. He sounded quite posh back then.
Looks well different there
"Spectacularly Splendid"...
he looks like a member of the royal family 😂
I wonder if Roger ran into David or perhaps David had gone home for his dinner at that stage?
grande Roger
That's one bossy interviewer lol
I was looking for an interview with Roger ‘man of the people’ Waters. You seem to have replaced it with an interview with Prince Charles.
The Floyd were all posh Cambridge boys!
the stone in live aid
So young.
sara please seeing on CZcams at METAL GIRLS LISTENING TO PINK FLOYD
Paula Yates?
Yes.
English people talking to eachother is just weird. If an American conducted this interview it would have been much more successful and easy to understand.
u gringoes dont even have an official langauge
@@dd-bq3xv you spaniards don't even have your own culture
@Allan Franzner who cares! USA USA USA
There was the year that Roger left Pink Floyd.
... THE HERO OF THE LIVE 8 🤍
watching on CZcams at METAL GIRLS LISTENING TO PINK FLOYD
He don"t play at Live Aid
look at Brian May standing drunkenly behind him at the beginning there - he looks wasted already ! ;-)
that is not brian may, lol
Did he perform at this show?
no
Fue el año que dejo pink floyd