Live Aid at 40: ‘I realise how lucky I was to be there’

Forty years since Live Aid, the people who were in the crowd for the star-studded charity event remember it well.

Two women from Gloucestershire were among 72,000 fans watching at Wembley Stadium in London and recall their experiences ahead of the anniversary of the historic concert on Sunday.

“It just was the most amazing day. I realise now looking back just how lucky I was to be there,” said Jane Barclay-Trott, who got a chance to go when her then boyfriend got tickets for herself and her twin sister.

She remembers taking a picnic basket and getting into the stadium a couple of hours before it started. They were in the middle of the pitch, with the Royal box in front of them, watching as the then Prince and Princess of Wales came in.

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