frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >That reminds me: Remember around 20 or so years ago, when Band-Aid started all >those "We're Rock Stars Who Care, So We'll Donate an Hour of Our Time to Save the >Starving of Sub-Saharan Africa" things? > >We had our very own Canadian one (can't remember what it was called - something >schmalzy like Northern Lights - not important).
Yep, "Northern Lights" it was. It was the b-side to Michael Jackson's "let's jump on the bandwagon" song that came after the original "Band Aid" song. Not a landmark piece of music, to be sure, but it was better than Jackson's "We Are the World" a-side. (Doesn't say much, I know.) >David Foster wrote, produced and >played keyboards and stuff. The ensuing TV "documentary" of the "event" showed >Foster, asking Neil Young to re-do his little vocal solo several times. Finally, >Foster said to Young, "You're a little flat there, Neil". > >Young replied, "Hey man, that's my sound". <vbg> A friend of mine once claimed "Neil Young isn't successful because he's a good songwriter, he's successful because he's a bad singer!" -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
