2011年10月4日星期二

Go back twenty years: mobile phones

It was not a charity. Im not interested in charity. I believe that if somebody is in a Rosetta Stone Outlet wheelchair and you want to help that person, you put your hand in your pocket. Cancer -- you put your money in, and it goes to research.Live Aid was a political lobby for change. And there were several cultural factors at play, which you could not have anticipated. Go back twenty years: mobile phones. Only the extreme rich had them. Faxes were unknown. Only important people had answering machines. The common form of international communication was telex. There was no global television. CNN was a baby MTV was groping its way to a market.Live Aid proved that we were all connected, while simultaneously addressing a massive issue -- not a cause -- using the lingua franca of the planet. Which was not English. It was pop music. Live Aid was a key moment in a time of Reaganomics Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 and Thatcherism, movements that claimed that individualism is the key, greed is good and consensual ideas of the world dont work. Live Aid proved that an individual can change the world -- but only if we band together.It was not a charity gig. I was under no illusions. You cannot put a band-aid on a gaping wound. The wound is political. The world is broken. We must address this. And the manifestation of that understanding is money: Give me the money, and I will keep people alive.Did you attend the recording sessions in London for Band Aid 20?Of course. The vibe? For me, like the movie Groundhog Day [laughs]. I wore my original "Feed the World" T-shirt. I dug it out. Its all yellowed -- my kids wear it around the house.In Europe, Live Aid is taught in civics and history classes, and the single gets released every Rosetta Stone German Christmas in the U.K. Generations have grown up with this song. Carol singers come around at Christmas singing it -- they think its 300 years old. Its in the culture. So these musicians turned up for the session, thinking, "Fucking hell, Im doing George Michael here." "Im Bono." "Im Sting." It was in their heads I saw it.The Darkness were very antsy, really full of it, taking the piss. But when they met Bono, they were like, "Do you mind if I have my picture taken with you?"McCartney played bass on the new record but didnt sing.Supergrass drummer, Danny Goffey, was freaking out. Paul was playing his Beatles bass -- the Hofner with the old set list taped on it -- and playing the way he used to lock in with Ringo. That was the band: Paul, Danny, Thom Yorke and Fran Healey from Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 Travis. [Radioheads Jonny Greenwood also played guitar.] Then the singers came in.

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