Playlist: rock festival
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12 July 2021

Playlist: rock festival

Playlist: rock festival



The year was 1984. Bob Geldof saw devastating news about the drought and famine in Ethiopia. A desire to help the country on the African continent was growing and the idea for the greatest rock concert of all time was born.


It was on 13 July 1985 that the Live Aid festival took place in five cities simultaneously. Over 60 bands came together in a solidarity concert, where the audience was asked to donate money to fight famine in Ethiopia. The main stages were in London and Philadelphia, but Sydney, Moscow and Japan also saw some performances.


Broadcast worldwide on television, and in Portugal on RTP, Live Aid was seen by approximately 1.5 billion people and raised around 165 million euros. Queen, Mick Jagger, Elton John, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, kiss and U2 are just some of the names that have stepped on stage. Since then, July 13 has become known as World Rock Day.




It is precisely with U2 that we begin our playlist today. It was with their live performance at Live Aid that U2 proved their worth as superstars. In 1976, when Larry Mullen was posting an ad in school asking for musicians, he was far from imagining that he would one day achieve fame alongside Adam Clayton, Bono and Paul Hewson. Released in 2000, All That You Can't Leave Behind is the band's tenth album. Bringing back the group's voice, this album showed U2 back to their more conventional sound, after the experimental phase of the 90s. All That You Can't Leave Behind earned seven Grammy Awards and sold over 10 million copies.


From Ireland we fly to America to discover two friends who, at the end of the 80s, decided to create a band. Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic took advantage of the growth of the grunge movement in Seattle to form Nirvana. The search for a drummer and third element was long and time consuming. Dave Grohl came along just as the second album Nevermind was being recorded, which featured the hit song 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'. It was with these three members that Nirvana made alternative rock popular, giving Cobain room to be considered the spokesman of a generation.


Within this panorama, on February 6th 1994, Nirvana gave a concert in Portugal, a few months before the band broke up with Cobain's suicide. The vinyl record we suggest today comes to celebrate the band's successes. Released in 2002,'Nirvana' is the group's first hits album. It includes songs from the band's three studio albums, the MTV Unplugged performance in New York and the last song recorded by Cobain never before published until now.



Showing another side of rock, we bring you the band founded in 1965 by two German brothers. More focused on hard rock, the Scorpions emerged in a post-war scenario. In 55 years of career, the band became a reference in the music industry, with bands like Smashing Pumpkins, System of a Down or Green Day covering their songs. Face the Heat, released in 1993, is the Scorpions' tenth album and makes a political statement with 'Alien Nation'. In this album, the band follows a contemporary style, betting on the trends of the moment before returning to their original style.


Bon Jovi, on the other hand, released Keep the Faith in 1992. Considered by many to be the album that launched the band, Keep the Faith brings out the criticism of society, in a set of lyrics more harsh than romantic. The fifth album represents a change in the band that began with Jon Bon Jovi, David Bryan, Tico Torres, Phill X and Hugh MacDonald in 1983. In addition to the visual changes, the irreverence and the choice of a path that is not very well trodden mark this album.


We start the playlist with one of the bands that performed at Live Aid and end with another that, despite not having performed, was represented by one of its elements. Straight from Liverpool in the 60s come the Beatles. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr formed the band that is considered one of the most influential of all time. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the Beatles' eighth album and breaks away from the conventional parameters of an album. With no breaks between tracks, the album presents the listener with an alter ego of the band, in a version full of colour and accompanied by people the artists admired. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band elevated music through experimentation, freedom and innovation, and was considered by Rolling Stone to be the band's best album ever.



Now that we've introduced you to our playlist, join us with the classics and let's celebrate world rock day!




Vinyl records: Rock

 

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