The Live Aid co-founder was promoting the new album, 'Just For One Day - The Live Aid Musical (Original Cast Recording)', which sees hits by Queen, David Bowie, Sir Elton John, U2, The Police, Madonna and more reimagined by the show's cast.
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00:00was it vaguely emotional listening to the performances that day you're over it now
00:27because I'm blue in the face listening to Freddie Mercury
00:30I'm saying where's the rats you know where's the ultrabox well not ultrabox obviously but I mean
00:57we couldn't possibly know that 40 years down the track that the that the issue would be as vital
01:19in Sudan as we speak 2.5 million children are being forced to starve as an instrument of war
01:25that 5 million people in Africa are in peril of their lives simply because they're suffering from
01:30AIDS and but what the musical does is exactly what Mitch says it brings it to a different generation
01:36and the possibility of what individuals can do together and as John Kennedy said it refutes
01:45Thatcher's dictum that there's no such thing as society what happened 40 years ago at Wembley
01:51was to lay that to rest that there is such a thing as society that human beings do care about each
01:57other and that they rise above the contemporary political gestalt
02:00it's a phenomenal piece of work yeah and it can only be I read something that it's another jukebox
02:08musical dude it is the global jukebox it can't be anything else that's what the concert was we
02:16called it the global jukebox was hit after hit after hit by definition has to but the achievement is to
02:22make that sense of 40 years ago that sense to make that vivid and relevant to now and that's what this is done