U2's Live Aid "failure"

Been reading more of the "U2 By U2" book. This morning before I got up I was reading about their performance at Live Aid in 1985. I don't remember that one, must have missed it. Had only been in Australia a few months at that stage. Apparently everyone thought they were brilliant, a highlight of the whole Live Aid thing. This was their performance of Bad:

I've just watched it for the first time (Oh god that hair, and those boots! Bono admits now though it was a fashion disaster). It's very funny to read the very different story of the band when they were on stage. They were supposed to do another song Pride, In the name of love, their hit single, after Bad.

However Bono decided to climb over things to get to the audience, impromptu. For a bit the band couldn't even see him and didn't know where the fuck he'd gone, thinking possibly he'd decided to finish the set early and had left the stage. He did the thing with the audience and eventually got back on stage but it took so long they didn't have time for Pride. The band was absolutely ropeable with him, nearly fired him over it, and he spent some days depressed about it afterwards. It wasn't until the feedback started to come in about the performance that they all realised that people thought him going into the audience had been a big highlight.