The tasteful Rock Aid Armenia. Just say “no”, kids.
If you want to help the cause, just put a £5 in a suitable tin can (or the virtual equivalent) from the Gods of rock n’roll channelling through you. You dont need the record. Listen to a good old one, instead.
Is it as good as The Stonk?
Probably not.
Stick it Out perhaps, but not the Stonk.
Heard a clip (15s) of it on the World Service plus interview.
Nothing else to add.
Crikey, with that many people playing you’d have thought they’d be able to find one of them doing it correctly.
I read that only 50% of the profits are going to the charity. Is that normal for these type of charity records?
Two charities will get 50% each.
How defeatist of them. Surely everybody nowadays gives it 110%, boss?
110%?
Slackers!
X Factor entrants routinely give it 1,000% or even 1,000,000%.
Many of them even throw in a story about a dead relative
@Bargepole Thanks, the Times misreported it!
Why bother?
I can’t say the idea of 5 live aids in 2025 excited me, either. Maybe it will bring together lots of artists that are huge these days, but really? 5? A lot of the talent is old now. Who’ll be dead in 2 years time? Pink Floyd reformed for 20 mins in ?2005? Ho hum.
Misanthropes…if there’s some cash at the end for Teenage Cancer Trust, who gives a monkey’s funky? “Disdain”?
Vincent, you may not be excited by the idea of a Live Aid in 2025 – but someone will, I’m sure: and as long as there are more of them than there are of you, it might be a worthwhile exercise. 🙂
I’m still reeling from the suggestion that it’s worse than The Stonk.
That. Is. Cold.
Back in December 1984, the bloke in the queue in front of me in HMV, Oxford St, bought £100 worth (50? copies) of the Band Aid single, and promptly handed all but one of them back to be resold.
Surely the sane thing would be to hand all of them back? It was playing on repeat on the in-store PA, so he must have already heard it.
One for the Scarred for Life thread?
Easy to say now, with a patina of cynicism having built up over forty years – maybe he just wanted a copy. Maybe he didn’t know it was you behind him in the queue – and his sanity would be called into question forty years on…
I think we pop kids in 1984 knew it was a bit of a dirge even then. I bought a copy and handed it back. 35 years later I found a 12″ copy in a box of records I bought from a neighbour. Unusually for 1984, the 12″ version is not an improvement.
As I said, give and celebrate the best. I’m all for helping my fellow person. But sometimes wonder if the Smashie and Nicie approach to charity is still effective.
In a world awash with good causes and inadequate social services anything that gets you attention has a beneficial impact. There competition for donations is fierce, time and attention is scare, so I’m inclined to think it doesn’t matter how naff or cheesy the pitch is, provided it breaks through and loosens a few wallets.
It made it onto BBC Radio 4 this morning.
Couldn’t agree more, fortuneight…
So then.
Charity records.
Why are they generally so f***ing awful?
These days all records are charity records.
“Buy my CD so I can maintain my rock and roll lifestyle eg having the heating on for more than an hour a day”
The reason why they’re called charity records is because they invariably
end up in charity shops
Jeff Beck is credited on it “confused emoticon”
The world service clip I heard said it was his last recording.
It’s dreadful. Never were so many pairs of sunglasses worn indoors in vain.
It’s out today (and to avoid the disdain of the rest of the AW community, I listened to it before you all woke up……)
So who can determine who plays where ?
I think the Princess of Wales might have had a hand in that graphic. Been years since I’ve seen Duane Eddy in Denmark St.