🚨 INSANE Flyover! 🇺🇸
POTUS’ brand new Air Force One just ripped a blazing fast low-altitude pass right beside a US Aircraft Carrier — followed by a pair of deadly B-21 Raiders! ✈️🔥
Next level power display! 🇺🇸
Genuinely speechless.
One of the greatest World Cup goals ever and it's for CAPE VERDE against the current World Champions.
DRINK IT IN. 🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻
📹 @itvfootball
No, THANK YOU! Truly a honor to wear the 💜💛 while trying to continuing the greatness & legacies that came before me! Hope I made a few proud during my stint. 🙏🏾🫡👑
Throwback To The Night The Shield Finally Reunited After Three Long Years On Raw
The Miz, Cesaro, Sheamus And Curtis Axel Standing In Their Way Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins And Dean Ambrose Joined Forces Once Again To Deliver Justice The Crowd Went Absolutely Wild As The Trio Brought Back Their Signature Teamwork And Finished The Work With A Devastating Triple Powerbomb
The moment it happened - literally the day after a @SkySports reporter called the failed medical “embarrassing for Manchester United.”
You can literally hear the pop and the scream. Non-contact, landed awkwardly going for a header. Full ACL gone. Yet Fergie still paid more the next year. Proper old-school faith.
#MUFC
Bob Geldof did not want them on the bill.
He had agreed to include Queen in the Live Aid lineup only reluctantly, pushed by promoter Harvey Goldsmith. By the summer of 1985, Geldof was not alone in thinking their moment had passed. Their biggest hits were nearly a decade old. Critics had started writing them off. Privately, the band itself was wondering if it was finished.
Then came July 13, 1985.
What nobody watching that day knew was what had happened the week before. Queen had booked the 400-seat Shaw Theatre near King's Cross in London and rehearsed their 21-minute set down to the exact second. Not the general shape of it. The exact second. Six songs, every beat drilled until nothing could go wrong.
And then, reportedly, their roadies disabled the sound limiters on the PA before the set. Every other band on that stage was capped. Queen was not.
At 6:41 PM, Freddie Mercury walked out. White jeans. White tank top. Studded armband. Seventy-two thousand people erupted.
He sat at the piano and played the opening of Bohemian Rhapsody, not the whole song, just enough to set the crowd on fire. Then he stood. Strode to the microphone.
Radio Ga Ga filled the stadium. Seventy-two thousand people raised their hands in perfect unison, one of the most iconic images of the entire decade.
Then Freddie stopped the band. He turned to the crowd. He opened his mouth and sang a single sustained note.
""Aaaaaaay-o.""
And waited.
Seventy-two thousand people sang it back. He went higher. They followed. Higher still. They stayed with him. Back and forth, the note climbing, the crowd holding on, the moment stretching into something that felt almost sacred.
It would later be called The Note Heard Round the World.
They tore through Hammer to Fall, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, a shortened We Will Rock You, and finally We Are the Champions. The stadium shook.
Twenty-one minutes after they walked on, Queen walked off.
Bob Geldof, the man who had not wanted them there, said afterward: ""Queen were absolutely the best band of the day. They played the best, had the best sound, used their time to the full. It was the perfect stage for Freddie: the whole world.""
An estimated 1.9 billion people across 150 nations had been watching. In 2005, music industry insiders voted it the single greatest rock performance in history. Not one of the greatest. The greatest.
Authors and musicians who were there have said those 21 minutes may have saved the band itself, that Queen was on the verge of a permanent split, and that afternoon reminded all four of them what they were still capable of together.
Freddie Mercury died on November 24, 1991. He was 45 years old.
But on July 13, 1985, for 21 minutes, standing before 72,000 people under a London summer sky, he was the most alive person on earth.
La tour eiffel frappée par la foudre ! À 0:14 la foudre frappe la tou, on aperçoit de la fumée qui apparaît les seconde suivantes à gauche et à droite ! #Paris#Finaltop14#Orage
Cody Rhodes gets emotional reflecting on something his brother said to him moments before his match at WrestleMania 40:
"I tear up every time I think about it... No one knew it happened.
My brother, Dustin... I don't always agree with what he does, and I'm sure he doesn't always agree with what I do, but he came onto my bus and just asked me, 'Are you ready?'
To be able to tell him, 'Yes,' and really mean it... That moment with Dustin made my day.
It wasn't his question to ask—it was my dad's. And my dad couldn't be there."
Paul Heyman says he almost lost his job for advocating for Sandman's entrance theme to be "Enter Sandman" by Metallica at ECW One Night Stand.
"One Night Stand 2005 was a magnificent event that was as authentic an ECW presentation as we could put on in 2005, including but not limited to, but certainly highlighted by the Sandman’s entrance, which I fought for to the point of almost getting fired.” It was then stated that Vince McMahon did not want to pay for a Metallica song, and Heyman responded, “Right. When that music hit, everyone at the Hammerstein Ballroom knew, wow! This is a real ECW show. This is how it felt back in the 90s and in 2000.”
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