Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “We were all forming a sort of a rut," Mercury said at the time. "I wanted to get out of this last 10 years of what we were doing.

On July 13, 1985 — 40 years ago today — an estimated 1.9 billion people — nearly 40% of the world’s population, at the time — watched a massive concert staged in both London and Philadelphia and ...