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Jim Vallance (co-producer) " Tears Are Not Enough " is a 1985 charity single recorded by a supergroup of Canadian artists, under the name Northern Lights, to raise funds for relief of the 1983–85 famine in Ethiopia. It was one of a number of such supergroup singles recorded between December 1984 and April 1985, along with Band Aid 's "Do They ...
Live Aid was a multi-venue benefit concert and music-based fundraising initiative held on Saturday, 13 July 1985. The original event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise further funds for relief of the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia, a movement that started with the release of the successful charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in December 1984.
Meaning. "Radio Ga Ga" was released in 1984. A nostalgic defence of radio, it was a commentary on television overtaking radio's popularity and how one would listen to radio in the past for a favourite comedy, drama, or science fiction programme. [ 7] It also addressed the advent of the music video and MTV, which was then competing with radio as ...
Picture Book is the debut album by British pop and soul group Simply Red, released in October 1985. It contains the US number-one single "Holding Back the Years", and covers of The Valentine Brothers ' "Money's Too Tight (to Mention)" and Talking Heads ’ “Heaven”. Three more singles were released from the album: "Come to My Aid", "Jericho ...
The music video was filmed in Brussels during The Works Tour, and features drummer Roger Taylor wearing an oversized message T-shirt ("CHOOSE LIFE") created by Katharine Hamnett. "Hammer to Fall" was the third song the band performed at Live Aid in 1985. [6] [7] [8] The song features in the setlist of both The Works Tour and The Magic Tour.
Released: May 1, 1985. We Are the World is a 1985 album that contains USA for Africa 's "We Are the World", a superstar charity recording for famine relief efforts in Ethiopia. The album was released on April 1, 1985, [1] [2] [3] by Columbia Records . In addition to the title track, the album includes nine previously unreleased songs by ...
Bono. Producer (s) Brian Eno. Daniel Lanois. " Bad " is a song by Irish rock band U2 and the seventh track on their 1984 album, The Unforgettable Fire. Thematically, the song is about heroin addiction, though lead vocalist Bono has given varying accounts of who was the inspiration behind his lyrics. "Bad" is considered a fan favourite and is ...
Freddie Jackson (pictured in 2019) spent eight weeks at number one in 1985, the most by any act. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1985 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in African American-oriented genres ; the chart has undergone various name changes over the decades to reflect the evolution of black music and has been published as Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs since 2005 ...