Status Quo - Rockin' All Over The World (Live Aid 1985) 

There I was, 17 years old, jumping in front of my TV when this song came on. I brings tears to my eyes, how lucky I was to be young at that time and fully live the moment

By the time Quo came on we were all at fever pitch. Slept on the concrete outside the stadium the night before, barely any sleep, hysteria mounting all morning, and with the opening piano chords of Rockin All Over The World all the energy just released. It was a great start to an amazing day.

There isn't a band on the planet who could have opened Live Aid with such aplomb. Status Quo rocks. xx

I was laid up in a hospital bed in Norwich I was in a bad way when this was on. I spent the whole day with a Nurse and a couple of fellow in mates watching the whole show, into the US bit! Well I pulled through, a crash at Snetterton racing bikes, lost a kidney and punctured a lung, and am still here 35 years later. So I want to say thank you to the NHS and all these musicians who made my time pass a little bit easier! Thanks to all of you!

the pressure of opening live aid and they nailed it with this song

Born in 1970 and therefore a teenager of the 80's, these kind of video's bring tears to my eyes.

I remember spending the whole day watching live aid as a kid. I wasn’t quite ten years old!

They opened Live Aid ,,,,, best group ever

Nailed 🤔👍

You can never go wrong with a bit of Status Quo

The perfect song to open this event

RIP Alan Lancaster. Thank you for everything!

It was a great decision for this band to open live aid

0:16 I keep going back to that shot. Imagine being in a band and seeing that many people jumping up and down to your music. What a HELL of a way to kick this off!

That opening piano riff never fails to make the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end.

the greatest rock concert event in music history

Status Quo definitely is one of the most underrated bands outta the 60’s

How good is this, from the most underrated band in the world,?? they opened the biggest live concert that ever was.

The perfect song to open up the biggest show in the world! Bravo!

The following year Quo supported Queen here for two nights. I went both days. Incredible. No, really incredible.

One Of The Most UnderRated Bands, Barely known in the US but Huge Everywhere Else

Listening to this in a remote village in East Africa Somaliland. Feelin the human compassion. I love you jolly humans all over the world. Only love and remember y'all from here too long ago lol

I'll never forget that day. I wasn't there, I was watching on TV, but I knew it was historic, and despite the fact that he can be a twerp, I was proud of Bob Geldof for what he did. Very proud. I think I was glued to the TV for hours. In my mind, I can still see Freddie Mercury on stage ...

Queen were awesome but I want to give shout out to Status Quo. The band that started it all. Great start to it all and deserve recognition.

Imagine the pressure opening live aid

Can you imagine being up on stage, playing your song, and looking out and seeing 72,000 people dancing and singing and clapping to your song?

Magic happened at Wembley that day in 85 ! What a concert

Considering they hadn't played for months and came back together to open this event Sensational 🎉🎉

I was there , this will never happen again , a day of legends ,

One of the best bands to have come out of the UK.

Can still remember watching this on tv ,Absolutely the best opening by Status Quo on what was a baking hot day! Happy memories,

I was 18 and I finished work at 9 that morning & went straight to Wembley & had the most amazing day there. Also told my boss i wouldn't be working that night, he wasn't too happy but relented (he was great for that). There are going to be millions of songs written in the next however many millions of years left and this one will still be the perfect start off song for this concert. I borrowed a friends camera and took many photos at least 4 for every performance they look so tiny to look at now but a great memento.

Amazing how they’d completely fallen apart as a band, they were (according to the band) un-rehearsed - and they still sound great

Great opening song by the Quo! This song was penned by arguably one of the best roots based R&R artist in history, the incomparable John Cameron Fogerty!

I was 14. I went to the local video shop on my bmx with my mate and bought two 180 minute vhs video tapes and sat in front of the tv recording all my favourite bits. And bought the smash hits mag with Geldof on the front and kept it for years. Good times

The right band opening with the right song that started arguably the best concert ever. The sheer quality of then established and famous acts and then new acts - that later became famous, on stage from UK and then straight to the US concert in one day, was then and remains unsurpassed. This was a one off and will never be repeated. Its of its time, a time when established 60/70s artists blended with the best and upcoming new generation 80s artists. Today we dont have the same breadth of truly globally known acts, if you excluded any here (who are still around). No mobile phones, no PR, just a crowd enjoying the sun and the music and moments when the stark message of why we were there were thrown in. I was there that day, great weather and by far the best musical event I have witnessed. For those of us around there or watching live on TV, we should feel blessed. A moment to treasure. Just like those at Woodstock.

The mighty Quo, regularly slated by so called music experts but just look at the crowd - jumping. An amazing group and sad that both Rick and Alan have departed this world. Let’s hope they’re riffing somewhere with Tom Petty, Stuart Adamson and Benjamin Orr🤞

I really wish I had a time machine so I could experience Live Aid. Queen, Status Que, Bowie, McCartney ... Rock heaven 🎉 It must have been tremendous pressure to open that concert but Status Que totally nailed it. It's clear that this performance really set the tone for the rest of the day. The greatest day in Rock history 🎤🎸

Such an epic start to the concert... Like meeting your mates down the pub.. "How are ya? Alright?" "You alright?".. And a cazillion people shout back... "Yeah!!!!!" Brilliant!

rode home as fast as i could from work to watch this.........what a way to start a global event

No phones, no cameras. Just great music and a great time! 🥰🥰

After Covid they need a big ass rock concert at the new Wembley fill it up 90000+

Still love the Quo in 2024 ❤

Never will live be as good again as it was in the 80s ❤️❤️❤️

Not the world's biggest Quo fan, but they were the perfect act - and this was the perfect song - to open Live Aid. Rossi can have, for the rest of this life, that he was the person to say 'hello!' at a pivotal moment in 20th century history.

Just about the best 4 minutes on RU-vid ever

Not one mobile phone in sight just pure bliss what s time to be alive thank you 80s for the great memories

I was 15 and watching this at my best friends house, I remember it like it was yesterday, what a show opener!! Sad I never got to see them live

Rick Parfitt rest in peace....

It does not matter how big was the contribution for Africa. But it was the great effort from the great peoples. Ultimately humanity won. Long live live aid.

Absolutely fantastic performance by Status Quo. To open a concert the magnitude of Live Aid must have needed a lot of courage.

Greatest guitar duos of all time. Rest in peace, Rick!

Seeing that crowd bounce up and down when the band kicks in still makes me gasp! One of the most universal performances I've ever heard.

No other band but the mighty QUO could open the greatest concert ever LIVE AID.

I am somewhere there in the audience. God! Watching this after all these many years really does bring back memories of being at the Wembley Stadium for this Live Aid Concert. By the end, I had almost lost my voice but it was worth it.

Is anyone still out there watching quo today love to you all

the greatest opening ever

I can just imagine these guys as they walked out to the stage, seeing the massive crowd larger than anything they'd ever performed in front of before, and confidentally saying " we got this".

Lancaster had already left the band in 1984 and he came back for this one concert. The great Alan Lancaster, the heart and soul of STATUS QUO!!! He was also the best performer at the Reunion Concerts. Alan's vocals were strong and powerful. He's mine and I think a lot of people's fave QUO member.

I was 12 and saw it live in Mexico!! Amazing!!

Status Quo turned out to be one of the best acts that day. Perfect opener of the greatest musical event in history....

such a perfect intro. The simple "ello, you alright?" then the song. Brilliant.

This whole day, and I was 9 at the time, it was if God looked down on London and Philly and said, "Yep, that is goodness....I will let them have pure blue skyes, perfect temps and everything they need to make this a success!". Where is the music now in 2023, that even gets close to this...or any performer on the day?

Probably the biggest band unknown in the US.

I reckon, between radio plays, playing albums, abound 15 concerts/festivals and so many RU-vid videos, since 1977 when this was released, I have heard this song over FOUR THOUSAND TIMES! Never really been a huge fan of it (but It's Quo and I love 'em!) but this still sends shivers down my spine. Was so chuffed to be a Quo fan when they came on as this showed the world what a live band should be like.

Undoubtedly the greatest show on earth .

Never forgot these great guys

The right song to start with, quite literally rocking all over the world

When the opening/support/warm-up band is Status Quo we all knew it was going to be one helluva gig ... and 35 years on we're still watching it, loving it and talking about it. xx

When they were about to go on stage as the opening act Bob Geldof told them the confirmed audience was THREE AND A HALF BILLION-they were stunned...............!!

Watching in 2022, I was 11 when this happened, the atmosphere must have been electric.... One of the most unique & out of this world the uk hosted

Listened to whole of Life Aid concert, day after my pass off parade in the British Army,. Awesome concert, no band better to open an amazing day.

RIP Alan Lancaster. 🖤🎸

I'll never forget this greatest day of music. I had just returned from Indonesia where I was working and then Live Aid. After a full bottle of Vodka . . . huh . . . I can't remember!!!!

Yup, as others have said before, when i listen to this, so do my neighbors WOoooooo

They got it right picking QUO to open the show. This performance is second only to the Queen performance that day - evidenced by the crowd reaction

i was there and i can never forget the experience seeing live the best of the best on stage ...all together at the same time !

There couldn't have been a better way to kick off Live Aid!

When people used to enjoy themselves

Lierally one of the best bands ever conceived

What a day, what a priceless moment to be in the crowd while on honeymoon. Lived many lives since but definitely was a moment...............

Still gives me a shiver down the spine when I see this, had the pleasure of been in front of that stage jumping around to this, great memory and a fantastic concert.

Quo are one of the best bands in the 70s just brilliant seen them at Glasgow Appol

Such an amazing song an amazing band to start the day off with 😊😊😊

A damn good romp. Times gone now, but love this. Stay strong.

I'm listen this music and cry , I can't believe so this music never come back 🥺😥 I really want Born in this year's

There will never be another moment like July 13th 1985....humankind tried for a brief moment came together...forgot their differences and helped those who needed it...yeah it was corny at times and didn't stop all the evil in the world but it was the 9th doctor said "fantastic"....thank you all who participated that day (not just the musicians..also the behind the scenes support,the audience at the stadiums,the world wide viewing audience and the governments who let down the guard for once) and may the music live on....

I was lucky enough to be there. Status Quo was the perfect choice to open the concert. The energy was just off the scale.

Best opening for this concert

absotively NO BETTER WAY to to kick off Live Aid...what a band...saw them 5 nights in a row at the Hordern Pavilion Sydney

The MIGHTY QUO! National treasures!!

The inauspicious beginning of what would be the musical event of a generation, and will never happen again.

There was never any doubt, in the pantheon of rock and roll history, there never was a song more appropriate to open Live Aid! And yes Bob, we did give ya our f@ckin money. 🤣😂

Du hast dafür gesorgt das ich sie live in bünde "Liverpool club" erleben durfte. Rip Papa Herbert Hermann ❤️ durch dich fing ich wieder an zu leben.

A lot of people don’t realize that Status Quo had 79 #1 hits in the UK over almost 40 years. I was very fortunate to see them at a ( who are these guys ?) when they showed up and played a Rory Gallagher concert in Toronto Canada 🇨🇦 by surprise...geez’ it must have been 39 yrs ago I believe. They were absolutely amazing and firstly I never left my feet or stopped rockin their whole set...secondly, I went out and bought every Quo album I could find. Broke my heart when Rick left us for the rockin rainbow. He and the real Status Quo are just one of those bands that will never go “ out of style “ and I still play them often. Long live just raw kickin’ kick ass rock...and even soulful Status Quo...with love 🎶🎸❤️🇨🇦

This was the first time I ever saw Status Quo... I was 14 yrs old, at a friends house who was having a Live Aid watching party. It was a group of us guys, and his slightly older sisters hot friends. Needless to say we all had a GREAT time. I discovered the magic combination of whiskey, women, and song on that day. And also became a Quo fan from that day forward.

And I was there! Great memory to have!

this is over 30 yrs. old, yet the sound and picture quality are very good, it must have been a huge technical feat to do this production, wish the John Lennon could have been there with the Beatles

Saw the live telecast live, 36 years later still love it!

Quite possibly the best song of all time