naptu2:
Images of starving Ethiopian kids, some of them too weak swat away flies from their face, circulated widely in 1984. The BBC was very instrumental in spreading these images. They produced several news clips about the civil war, separatist movement, drought, famine and devastation in Ethiopia. Those clips left me with the impression that Ethiopia was a desert country that was perpetually at war.

These news items about poverty, starvation and suffering moved an Irish musician named Bob Geldoff to want to do something about it. He mobilised the most famous British and Irish musicians to record an album to raise funds to provide food, drugs and other aid to suffering people in Ethiopia.

This led to the creation of the super group called Band Aid and a humongously popular song that was number 1 at Christmas in 1984. The song was produced by Midge Ure and Band Aid were:

•Robert "Kool" Bell (Kool & the Gang)
•Bono (U2)
•Pete Briquette (The Boomtown Rats)
•Adam Clayton (U2)
•Phil Collins (Genesis and solo artist)
•Chris Cross (Ultravox)
•Simon Crowe (The Boomtown Rats)
•Sarah Dallin (Bananarama)
•Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama)
•Johnny Fingers (The Boomtown Rats)
•Bob Geldof (The Boomtown Rats)
•Boy George (Culture Club)
•Glenn Gregory (Heaven 17)
•Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet)
•John Keeble (Spandau Ballet)
•Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet)
•Martin Kemp (Spandau Ballet)
•Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran)
•Marilyn
•George Michael (Wham!)
•Jon Moss (Culture Club)
•Steve Norman (Spandau Ballet)
•Rick Parfitt (Status Quo)
•Nick Rhodes (Duran Duran)
•Francis Rossi (Status Quo)
•Sting (The Police)
•Andy Taylor (Duran Duran)
•James "J.T." Taylor (Kool & the Gang)
•John Taylor (Duran Duran)
•Roger Taylor (Duran Duran)
•Dennis Thomas (Kool & the Gang)
•Midge Ure (Ultravox)
•Martyn Ware (Heaven 17)
•Jody Watley
•Paul Weller (The Style Council)
•Keren Woodward (Bananarama)
•Paul Young

And shoutouts from
•Stuart Adamson, Mark Brzezicki, Tony Butler, Bruce Watson (Big Country)
•David Bowie
•Holly Johnson (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
•Paul McCartney

Many other famous artistes contributed other songs to the album.

This is the original video.

Band Aid – Do They Know It's Christmas? (1984)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc8TYsYb5i0

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Band Aid inspired the American singer, Harry Belafonte to do something similar in the US. Belafonte has always been involved in African-American civil rights issues in America and in the fight against apartheid and poverty in Africa (Belafonte is of Jamaican descent).

Belafonte was able to get many famous American singers to form the super group United Support Artistes For Africa (USA For Africa). They got Quincy Jones to produce the song and Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie to write it.

(Many other famous artistes, e.g. Prince, contributed songs to the album).

USA For Africa were:


• Lionel Richie
• Stevie Wonder
• Paul Simon
• Kenny Rogers
• James Ingram
• Tina Turner
• Billy Joel
• Michael Jackson
• Diana Ross
• Dionne Warwick
• Willie Nelson
• Al Jarreau
• Bruce Springsteen
• Kenny Loggins
• Steve Perry
• Daryl Hall
• Huey Lewis
• Cyndi Lauper
• Kim Carnes
• Bob Dylan
• Ray Charles


• Dan Aykroyd
• Harry Belafonte
• Lindsey Buckingham
• Mario Cipollina
• Johnny Colla
• Sheila E.
• Bob Geldof
• Bill Gibson
• Chris Hayes
• Sean Hopper
• Jackie Jackson
• La Toya Jackson
• Marlon Jackson
• Randy Jackson
• Tito Jackson
• Waylon Jennings
• Bette Midler
• John Oates
• Jeffrey Osborne
• The Pointer Sisters
• Smokey Robinson

This is the original video.

USA For Africa – We Are The World (1985)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YShXibdWYk

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The Canadians (Bryan Adams, etc.) also got together and produced this wonderful song (Gosh! I LOVE the chorus of this song.

Northern Lights are:

•Bryan Adams
•John Candy
•Joni Mitchell
•Burton Cummings
•Anne Murray
•Gordon Lightfoot
•Mike Reno (Loverboy) with Liberty Silver
•Carroll Baker, Ronnie Hawkins and Murray McLauchlan
•Véronique Béliveau, Robert Charlebois and Claude Dubois (in French)
•Bryan Adams with Donny Gerrard (Skylark)
•Alfie Zappacosta with Lisa Dal Bello
•Carole Pope (Rough Trade) and Paul Hyde (The Payola$)
•Salome Bey, Mark Holmes (Platinum Blonde) and Lorraine Segato (The Parachute Club)
•Tom Cochrane (Red Rider)
•Tommy Hunter
•Martha Johnson
•Eugene Levy
•Frank Mills
•Kim Mitchell
•Paul Shaffer
•Graham Shaw
•Jane Siberry
•Sylvia Tyson
•Barry Harris
•Catherine O'Hara
•Wayne St. John

Northern Lights – Tears Are Not Enough (1985)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6OqvHNcuTk

naptu2:
The NTA showed this. They bounced back and forth between London and Philadelphia.

LIVE AID! 13th July, 1985, simultaneously at Wembly Stadium in London and JFK Stadium in Philadelphia.

First the beginning in London.

The introduction, arrival of the Prince and Princess of Wales and Bob Geldoff and the royal salute.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfVKruxpQ5Q?list=PLHp_BwHqxTe5aFv9FtC_Ql1d1hhvalgbT

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Philadelphia. We Are The World, performed by Lionel Richie, Harry Belafonte and a host of stars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zChZdQGLYs4

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Save the best for last. Queen’s performance at Wembley Stadium. We Will Rock You is at 16:03. Imagine a capacity crowd at Wembley clapping and singing “We will, we will rock you!”.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A22oy8dFjqc

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