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Mr Lake ran across this coolest historic picture: WOW (Original Post) LakeArenal Jun 2023 OP
Can you describe it? edit: Ahhh it just showed up. Very nice. marble falls Jun 2023 #1
OMG!! Bayard Jun 2023 #2
WOW!!! Thanks for posting this!!! n/t RKP5637 Jun 2023 #3
I'm betting Eric and Elton were partying hard that weekend Hugh_Lebowski Jun 2023 #4
Phil looks kinda fucked up as well... AZSkiffyGeek Jun 2023 #6
IIRC Clapton got sober in 1982 but then had a relapse Hugh_Lebowski Jun 2023 #7
I've read stories from musicians at Live Aid about the volume of cocaine backstage AZSkiffyGeek Jun 2023 #10
What a great photo! Diamond_Dog Jun 2023 #5
Nice. Paul McCartney is there representing the "Beatles"... brush Jun 2023 #8
I don't remember ever seeing anyone from the Stones at those Prince's Trust Galas AZSkiffyGeek Jun 2023 #9
This message was self-deleted by its author twodogsbarking Jun 2023 #11
 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
4. I'm betting Eric and Elton were partying hard that weekend
Thu Jun 29, 2023, 10:58 AM
Jun 2023

Laying down some fat stripes, if you know what I'm sayin'

 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
7. IIRC Clapton got sober in 1982 but then had a relapse
Thu Jun 29, 2023, 11:11 AM
Jun 2023

And went back into treatment for the last time in 1987.

My bet is Clapton was also partying hard at something like this in 1986.

AZSkiffyGeek

(12,600 posts)
10. I've read stories from musicians at Live Aid about the volume of cocaine backstage
Thu Jun 29, 2023, 11:27 AM
Jun 2023

And almost, if not all, of these musicians were pretty central at Live Aid.

brush

(57,556 posts)
8. Nice. Paul McCartney is there representing the "Beatles"...
Thu Jun 29, 2023, 11:15 AM
Jun 2023

but no one from the "Rolling Stones?" Where were they?

AZSkiffyGeek

(12,600 posts)
9. I don't remember ever seeing anyone from the Stones at those Prince's Trust Galas
Thu Jun 29, 2023, 11:26 AM
Jun 2023

I know Pete Townsend used to perform at them occasionally, but never saw Mick or Keith.
At this point none of them were speaking to each other also, I don't think.

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