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| | ALL-STAR CHARITY ALBUMS: FROM GOOD CAUSE TO THE BARGAIN BIN |
 | | Executive producer Bono of U2 put together the sessions a week before the attacks, recording on behalf of African AIDS with an A-list set of performers in New York for the MTV Music Awards ('N Sync, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Lopez, the Backstreet Boys, Gwen Stefani, Michael Stipe, among others)? |
| | All-Star Cast: Sting, George Michael, Duran Duran, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Phil Collins, Bananarama, U2, Boy George, Kool and the Gang, Spandau Ballet, Status Quo, Ultravox, Heaven 17, Paul Young, Paul Weller |
| | "We Are the World" is now largely relegated to off-key versions by elementary school choruses and Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas," the 1984 fund-raiser for Ethiopian famine relief that started it all, and was once the biggest-selling British single ever, is consigned to the rubbish heap of pop. |
| www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/03/07/PKGV85BJE31.DTL (563 words) |
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