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Yesterday afternoon the Old Vic Theatre released some great new behind~the~scenes footage from "Just For One Day", soundtracked by one of its featured songs, Ultravox's "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes". Just click on the link directly below my bright orange collection of photos of the cast (featuring their production of "Let It Be"). You'll definitely get swept up!
I was very lucky to begin my day by reading a great & fast~moving article on the Classic Pop Magazine website from just this past December which presents each of the Band Aid recordings that followed the original in what I would call a "feeling" way. Ultimately, it's a how a song makes you feel that matters most. I read everything I possibly can about Band Aid, the Band Aid Trust, Live Aid, etc., and it was completely new to me to discover there was a Band Aid 5 in 1989! That makes the words which Mike Stock says in the article completely true! He says he realizes their version ("their" being Stock Aitken Waterman, aka The Hit Factory, the production team Bob Geldof sought out to produce the record) has been completely lost to the history books! What he says he finds sad about that is that he thinks it's the version of all the subsequent versions which keeps the most true to the original approach to Band Aid, which was to make it joyous despite being about a very serious situation, to keep it simple, and to make it something everyone will want to buy from hipster to grandma! While I will always love the original Band Aid most of all, Band Aid 5 has a bright sparkling quality to it and Bob loved the upbeat feeling Stock Aitken Waterman gave to it. Banarama is the only band from the original to participate (albeit Banarama version 2). Instead, among the other participants, you'll find Cliff Richard, Kylie Minogue, & Jimmy Sommerville of Bronski Beat. You can check it out by clicking on the link up above below the photo of Bob welcoming Bono into the recording session of...Band Aid 30! About which, I have to say, as far as the video aspect of each of the versions goes, Band Aid 30 probably kept the truest to the original feeling in that it's the only one since the original to feature Bob & Midge and there's a general feeling among all the Band Aid 30 artists which comes closest to giving the feeling found in the first, among them: Bono, Roger Taylor from Queen on drums, One Direction, Sinead O'Connor, Rita Ora, Ellie Goulding, and Ed Sheerhan.
The best thing of all about videos you watch on the Live Aid channel on You Tube is that for every view, earnings are generated for the Band Aid Trust!
If you would like to read the great article in Classic Pop scanning the 4 incarnations of Band Aid, you can find it here:
It also gives you the opportunity to click on each of the videos, which I highly recommend ~ it's the best possible way I could have started my day!
Love,
Jennifer ☀️🤍☀️
Poor Midge Ure was elbowed out of the way at Press night by a photographer taking pics of Arlene Phillips. People just don,t recognise him now, with his bald head.
Thanks Jennifer… A lot of folks have it a lot worse than me right now. So no boat needed yet!
On the Robert Plant Richter scale? About an 8 🤣
I hadn't seen the latest iterations. That was indeed the best way to wake up this morning.
Thanks Jennifer ❤️💜