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JAN MOIR: The new Live Aid West End musical Just For One Day is predictably right on, but at least the 37 hits in two hours are simply magical
JAN MOIR: During the opening moments of Just For One Day, the new musical that celebrates the phenomenon of Live Aid, the audience are asked if anyone present went to the famous concert.
Throughout the exuberant show, St Bob (Craige Els) is shown in an unyieldingly heroic light and to be honest, I grew quite tired of him storming around the stage in his denim top shouting ‘just give us the fooking money’ and so on. Even in the show’s souvenir programme Matthew Warchus, the artistic director of The Old Vic, writes of how ‘under Thatcher’s successive governments there had been war in the Falklands, soaring unemployment and widespread industrial action’ alongside ‘generalised social paranoia’. From the line-up at the JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, Sir Mick Jagger, Madonna, Bob Dylan and Neil Young all rock on, while Tina Turner died last year, and Hall has issued a restraining order against Oates.
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