Word: farmaid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world of popular music in the last few years seems to have saturated the market with benefit albums. LiveAid, "Sun City", USA for Africa, FarmAid, "That's What Friends Are For" for AIDS, Hands Across America--what's next? One wonders if others, observing the good publicity and massive record sales of Geldof's aid efforts, are not just using charity for self-promotion...
...little, and everything will settle down? Think again; that is not going to happen for a while. There are two immediate reasons why: the release the week of Oct. 14 of an impassioned all-star antiapartheid record, Sun City, and the congenial reverberations from last week's FarmAid, the concert that featured top rock and country-and-western talent drumming up support for the American farmer. Both the Sun City record and the FarmAid concert, held at a football stadium in Champaign, Ill., celebrate a unity within the music community even as they signal a further deepening of social awareness...
...never fell." Lou Reed pointed up the irony of rock, freshly politicized, being attacked for excessive raunch, by recalling "those people who are trying to censor records" before launching in- to his classic Walk on the Wild Side. Live Aid may have been slicker and more elaborate, but FarmAid had the edge musically. There were frequent appearances throughout the 14 3/4-hour event by Co-Organizer Willie Nelson, whose heavy responsibilities never weighted the sensual ease of his vocals. There were also high-spirited performances by CoOrganizer John Cougar Mellencamp, Bonnie Raitt, Loretta Lynn and Emmylou Harris, and an incendiary...
...single, however, that will probably attract the most attention and provoke the greatest response. If, as Rock Critic Greil Marcus has skeptically suggested, the recent spate of concerts like FarmAid bespeaks merely "a craze for charity," then Sun City represents a step toward outright activism. The accustomed structure for all such undertakings is present: participating musicians worked free, recording studios donated facilities, Van Zandt covered his own expenses, and Manhattan Records will donate all of the profits to the nonprofit Africa Fund...
...Clash and the Sex Pistols in the late '70s, rock has buried higher consciousness under high conscience. "It's a rebirth of the spirit we had in the '60s, but it is a little more pragmatic," says Don Henley, whose performance of his A Month of Sundays at FarmAid was a high point...