Which legendary live music performance would you most want to have been there for?

On a sweltering July afternoon, Freddie Mercury seized Wembley Stadium and the global television audience as if the whole event had been staged purely for him. Widely regarded as the greatest live performance in rock history, it quite literally saved Queen's career and cemented their legend.

Sixty thousand screaming fans drowned out every note, yet somehow this New York stadium show became the blueprint for the modern arena concert. The Fab Four were barely audible, but the sheer cultural electricity made it a turning point in music history.

Bowie stunned the audience by announcing mid-show that this would be the last Ziggy Stardust concert ever, killing off his most beloved alter ego without warning. It was theatrical, devastating, and utterly brilliant — classic Bowie.

A quarter of a million people descended on a Hertfordshire field for what became the defining cultural event of the 1990s in Britain. With a reported 2.6 million people having applied for tickets, it remains the most in-demand concert in UK history.

Hendrix was relatively unknown to American audiences before Monterey, so he chose to close his set by setting his Stratocaster ablaze in a moment of pure theatrical genius. By the time the flames died down, rock music would never be quite the same again.

Fresh from her globe-conquering 21 album, Adele delivered a bare, devastating performance of Someone Like You armed with nothing but a piano accompaniment. An entire arena of music industry cynics was reduced to tears — and millions more watching at home.

For a certain generation of British music fans, Spike Island is spoken about with the hushed reverence usually reserved for religious experiences. The sound quality was reportedly terrible, but the sense of collective euphoria made it the spiritual centrepiece of the Madchester era.

When it started to rain heavily during Prince's performance, his team reportedly asked if he wanted to stop — he allegedly replied, 'Can you make it rain harder?' What followed was a masterclass in showmanship that left every subsequent halftime act with an impossible standard to meet.