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USA for Africa

When it appeared in 1985, USA for Africa’s “We Will be the World” was considered ’80s pop celebrities finally gaining a sociable conscience. Though it ultimately became therefore overplayed that lots of radio stations by no means spun it any longer as the 10 years closed, “We Will be the …

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Lech Janerka

Created in 1953 in Wroclaw, Poland, vocalist, bassist, composer, text message writer, and moreover, a professional photographer in an area geodesy workplace Lech Janerka started his profession with shows alongside his wife Bozena Janerka in student festivals by the end from the ’70s. In 1979, along with Krzysztof Pociecha (acoustic …

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Bob Geldof

Bob Geldof formed the punk group Boomtown Rats in 1975. Through the band’s lifetime, it moved in the natural energy and hostility of strikes like “CARING FOR No. 1” towards the even more sophisticated but nonetheless provocative “I CAN’T STAND Mondays” (its name produced from the solution distributed by a …

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The Boomtown Rats

The Boomtown Rats were an Irish rock-band that scored some Uk hits between 1977 and 1980, and were led by singer Bob Geldof, who organized the Ethiopian relief efforts Music group Aid and Live Aid. The Rats had been created in Dun Laoghaire, near Dublin, Ireland, in 1975 by Geldof …

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The Richmond Sluts

This San Franciscan band plays garagey punk rock heavily influenced by mid-’70s or simply pre-punk 1970s bands, specially the Stooges, the Ramones, the brand new York Dolls, as well as the early-’70s Rolling Stones. Their self-titled debut record arrived in 2001.

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Midge Ure

Among the essential members of the brand new influx music group Ultravox, guitarist/vocalist Midge Ure began his professional music profession with Salvation, a Glasgow-based group that became the bubblegum music group Slik in 1974. Upset within the modification of path, Ure still left the band to become listed on the …

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Robert John “Mutt” Lange

The quintessential arena rock producer, Robert John “Mutt” Lange rose to fame on the effectiveness of the blockbuster albums he recorded for Def Leppard, AC/DC, and Foreigner. His profession started in 1976, when he created Graham Parker’s HEAT THERAPY along with the self-titled debut from Town Boy, the very first …

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Band Aid

Charity supergroup Music group Help was formed in London, Britain in 1984 by Boomtown Rats frontman Bob Geldof and manufacturer Midge Ure. Designed to finance anti-poverty initiatives in Ethiopia, the ensemble documented the one “Perform They Understand It’s Xmas?” for discharge through the 1984 holidays. Aided by vocal initiatives from …

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