Live Aid '85 Concert

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Archive note

Japanese promotional poster for the July 13, 1985 Live Aid benefit concert, featuring Freddie Mercury, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, and Brian May of Queen in performance stills. The poster frames the event as a watershed cultural moment—"the day the world changed"—in Japanese typography and archival grey-tone. A artifact of how the global broadcast was received and remembered across different markets and languages.

$5 One file · one owner · never reissued

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Print specification

36x24in

2752 × 1536 px · 4.2 MP · landscape

Section: Music That Never Was
Style: vintage concert poster, black and white photography, Japanese typography
Mood: historic, reverent, monumental
Palette: cream, black, red

Filed under

live aidqueenfreddie mercurydavid bowiepaul mccartneybrian may1985concertcharity benefitbritish rockjapanese designbroadcast archivemonochrome