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Thursday, December 02, 2004


Feed The World: Did They Know It Was Ramadan Time?

Band Aid, 20 years ago, was the greatest things that rock and roll brought the world since Elvis (Presley & Costello) and the Beatles. Bob Geldoff and Midge Ure were brilliant, wrote a great tune, raised tons of cash, andt ignited Bono to humanitarian action, and the world is a better place (hard to believe) than it would have been without them and their efforts.

I recently had the opportunity to see the original Do They Know Its Christmas? and the 20 year anniversary remake.

The original still gives me chills when I hear it, and the video is pure joy. I was even happy to see George Michael and Boy George! Not to mention that I could still recognize almost all of the people in the video.

Now, as for the remake:Who the hell are those people?

Maybe I'm just too out oof date, but I didn't know a single soul in that entire production, outside of Bono, who was brought back to recreate his just thank God its them instead of you but sadly, without the same amazing effect as in the first version. But, if this new version were really populated with the same caliber of recording artists as the original (George Michael, Boy George, Sting, Bananarama, Bono, Phil Collins, Duran Duran, Paul Young) wouldn't we have seen Britney, Jessica, Christina, Justin, Andre 3000... but all we got was Coldplay, Dido, Joss Stone(!) and a bunch of whozethem? (Yeah, ok, we're teased with glimpses of a left handed hofner bass a couple times and the Sir Paul is seen playing... in isolation ) And, sadly but predictably, they've added rap music [sic] to the song. I guess some would call it modernizing; I call it a desecration and perhaps an actionable droit morale claim.

Well, I hope it makes some money for starving people. But by 2004, one would hope that Western Europe would realize that most of Africa is not Christian and could not care less whether or not it was Christmas!

They are Muslims, and they observe Ramadan, which concluded on November 13th. Did the do-gooders know it was Ramadan-time at all? Without accepting or condoning his methods in the least: People, this is part of what Osama is beefing about...

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