Queen play full 1985 Live Aid setlist “for first time in history” at Australian bushfire concert

17 February 2020, 09:42 | Updated: 17 February 2020, 10:52

By Tom Eames

Queen and Adam Lambert played the band’s iconic setlist from their 1985 Live Aid concert for Fire Fight Australia, a huge Australian bushfire benefit show held in Sydney at the weekend.

This marked the first time the band performed the famous 22-minute set, with Queen saying it was being staged “for the first time in its history”.

Watch Queen's Live Aid set side-by-side with Rami Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody

Taking place at Fire Fight Australia, Queen also showed footage of late frontman Freddie Mercury to replicate how Mercury brought out chants from the 1985 Live Aid audience at Wembley.

Watch the moment take place below:

The Freddie Mercury cameo was the highlight of #FireFightAustralia pic.twitter.com/088KpXd5mQ
— Wade Shipard (@wadeshipard) February 16, 2020

Brian May had described Fire Fight Australia as a benefit concert “a bit like Live Aid”, when he first revealed that Queen had been approached to play the event.

Watch other clips of Queen’s show:

Queen and Adam Lambert opening with Bohemian Rhapsody. Crowds are roaring. #FireFightAustralia pic.twitter.com/GQ1Agy7xpS
— Georgia Clark (@GeorgiaBClark) February 16, 2020

Wow - Queen did their actual Live Aid set at #FireFightAustralia for the first time since 1985 pic.twitter.com/5W5W2CAO4l
— cameron adams (@cameron_adams) February 16, 2020

Brian May doing the solo from Crazy Little Thing Called Love.

That is all.#FireFightAustralia pic.twitter.com/pBSBYD3eIf
— It's All Complete Bollocks! 💧🌈 (@RichardTuffin) February 16, 2020

Fire Fight Australia will be shown in the UK on Sky One HD from 8pm on Monday, February 17.

Other artists on the night included Alice Cooper, Olivia Newton-John, k.d. Lang, Ronan Keating and Michael Buble.