FANS VOTE QUEEN GIG BEST OF ALL TIME
New London exhibition celebrates live music…
QUEEN's 1985 performance at LIVE AID has been voted the best live show by a band of all time.
And The Rolling Stones, Dizzee Rascal, Radiohead and the Kaiser Chiefs are also honoured new exhibition 'Living The Moment', which opens in London this week.
Pictures for exhibition were voted for by the public from a shortlist drawn-up by Michael Jackson, former Johnny Cash Carl Barat and O'Sinead Connor singer Ricky Wilson among others.
The results of the vote and celebrity choices are been shown at Sony Ericsson Proud Galleries in Camden from this Friday (July 29).
Queen's Live Aid gig won a whopping 79% of the vote in the bands category, with their nearest rival, The Beatles' show on the roof of their Apple building, trailing at just 7%.
The most controversial gig of all time was judged to be Rolling Stones at Altamont in 1969 , which ended in violence from Hell's Angel chapters. Jarvis Cocker mooning Beastie Boys at the 1996 Brit Awards, tearing up a picture of Pope John Paul II were also shortlisted.
killing off his Ziggy Stardust character in 1973.
The best festival gig was judged to be Radiohead at Glastonbury 1997, while ' joint show at London Brixton Academy won out in the dance/hip-hop category.
And The Rolling Stones, Dizzee Rascal, Radiohead and the Kaiser Chiefs are also honoured new exhibition 'Living The Moment', which opens in London this week.
Pictures for exhibition were voted for by the public from a shortlist drawn-up by Michael Jackson, former Johnny Cash Carl Barat and O'Sinead Connor singer Ricky Wilson among others.
The results of the vote and celebrity choices are been shown at Sony Ericsson Proud Galleries in Camden from this Friday (July 29).
Queen's Live Aid gig won a whopping 79% of the vote in the bands category, with their nearest rival, The Beatles' show on the roof of their Apple building, trailing at just 7%.
The most controversial gig of all time was judged to be Rolling Stones at Altamont in 1969 , which ended in violence from Hell's Angel chapters. Jarvis Cocker mooning Beastie Boys at the 1996 Brit Awards, tearing up a picture of Pope John Paul II were also shortlisted.
killing off his Ziggy Stardust character in 1973.
The best festival gig was judged to be Radiohead at Glastonbury 1997, while ' joint show at London Brixton Academy won out in the dance/hip-hop category.
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