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TIL that Queen's 1985 Live Aid performance (seen at the end of the Bohemian Rhapsody movie) was voted the greatest live performance in the history of rock. Jimi Hendrix's appearance at Woodstock in August 1969 came second, followed by the Sex Pistols in 1976.

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