In 1985 dozens of musicians got together to produce an album to help starving people in Africa. It was a noble effort but you can’t save everyone, especially if they are under the heels of socialist and Marxist governments. They pleaded for help and got nothing but words. Ideological mush never solved anything. And today, even though the musicians stated they would continue their aid concerts, farmers who had fed the population of Rhodesia, were killed and driven out because they were white. Do the musicians sing for them? Hunger is now weaving its dark tentacles through a once prosperous Zimbabwe and Zambia. The same thing was now happening in South Africa.
They would have been better off listening to Sam Kinison.
I was at Live Aid in Philadelphia- i went for the concert, not the cause- it was an incredible day i will never forget...
There was no politics that i remember during the concert. Unlike Live 8 or all the clowns speaking out about US Aid these days, there was no demand US tax payer $$$ be used for their cause- it was just people calling in with donations...
That i could respect considering everyone demanding our tax dollars these days....