Please settle an argument.

[The Mystery Machine]

The first person I think of is Michael Jackson. Now you had to force me to watch it.

I just want to know how Dan Aykroyd made it in there.

Here is the list of performers.
http://www.inthe80s.com/weworld.shtml

Dan Aykroyd
Harry Belafonte
Lindsey Buckingham
Kim Carnes
Ray Charles
Bob Dylan
Sheila E.
Bob Geldof
Hall and Oates
James Ingram
Jackie Jackson
LaToya Jackson
Marlon Jackson
Michael Jackson
Randy Jackson
Tito Jackson
Al Jarreau
Waylon Jennings
"Pop-Up Video" stated that he left the recording session due to a dispute over the lyrics.
Billy Joel
Cyndi Lauper
Huey Lewis and the News
Kenny Logins
Bette Midler
Willie Nelson
Jeffery Osborne
Steve Perry
The Pointer Sisters
Lionel Richie
Smokey Robinson
Kenny Rogers
Diana Ross
Paul Simon
Bruce Springsteen
Tina Turner
Dionne Warwick
Stevie Wonder
Michael Boddicker - Synthesizers, Programming
Paulinho da Costa - Percussion
Louis Johnson - Bass
Quincy Jones - Producer
Michael Omartian - Keyboards, Producer
Greg Phillinganes - Keyboards
John Robinson - Drums

 

[enyaj40]

I'd like to add that after watching the video, I'm . Bono wasn't even IN IT!!!! I'm such a dork!

He was in this though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsqsiJRiCY0

i *think* bob geldof and bono were in the uk song "do they know it's christmas time?" which inspired the "we are the world song"

i'm remembering boy george and george michael and maybe elton john, too?

::ff to look:::

 

[4greatboys]

Bob Geldof.

 

[Obi-Wan Pinobi]

I'd like to add that after watching the video, I'm . Bono wasn't even IN IT!!!! I'm such a dork!

He was in this though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsqsiJRiCY0

Great.. I clicked on this and it woke up DW Lauri. She started watching it and got all fan-girly over John Taylor and Simon LeBon.

 

[enyaj40]

:::having flashbacks to high school:::

"Do They Know It's Christmas?"

"Do They Know It's Christmas?" is a song written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in 1984 specifically to raise money for Ethiopian famine relief. The original version was produced by Midge Ure and Trevor Horn, and released by Band Aid on December 3, 1984.

Geldof put together a group called Band Aid, consisting of leading Irish and British musicians who were among the most popular and recognised of this era.

Participants
The original Band Aid ensemble consisted of (in sleeve order):

Adam Clayton (U2)
Phil Collins (Genesis, solo)
Bob Geldof (Boomtown Rats)
Steve Norman (Spandau Ballet)
Chris Cross (Ultravox)
John Taylor (Duran Duran)
Paul Young
Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet)
Glenn Gregory (Heaven 17)
Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran)
Simon Crowe (Boomtown Rats)
Marilyn
Keren Woodward (Bananarama)
Martin Kemp (Spandau Ballet)
Jody Watley (Shalamar)
Bono (U2)
Paul Weller (The Style Council)
James "J.T." Taylor (Kool & the Gang)
George Michael (Wham!)
Midge Ure (Ultravox)
Martyn Ware (Heaven 17)
John Keeble (Spandau Ballet)
Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet)
Roger Taylor (Duran Duran)
Sarah Dallin (Bananarama)
Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama)
Pete Briquette (Boomtown Rats)
Francis Rossi (Status Quo)
Robert 'Kool' Bell (Kool & the Gang)
Dennis J. T. Thomas (Kool & the Gang)
Andy Taylor (Duran Duran)
Jon Moss (Culture Club)
Sting (The Police)
Rick Parfitt (Status Quo)
Nick Rhodes (Duran Duran)
Johnny Fingers (Boomtown Rats)
David Bowie
Boy George (Culture Club)
Holly Johnson (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
Paul McCartney (Former member of The Beatles)
Stuart Adamson (Big Country)
Bruce Watson (Big Country)
Tony Butler (Big Country)
Mark Brzezicki (Big Country)

 

[Cool-Beans]

Great.. I clicked on this and it woke up DW Lauri. She started watching it and got all fan-girly over John Taylor and Simon LeBon.

Because she has good flippin taste!

I still think they looked pretty good. Especially John. In the Simon vs. John thing, I'm on the John side. My best friend was a Simon girl, but I was a John girl.

And to this day I listen to those songs. I think "New Moon on Monday" is one of the best songs EVER!

 

[enyaj40]

Is it me or is Sting hotter now?

him and bono both, imo

:::cleaning up drool from the keyboard:::

 

[Mellie2162]

Mike Tyson

No one is paying attention tonight!!

 

[Judy from Boise]

I always think of the Boss, because...well...he's the Boss!

 

[cruiserkaren]

Michael Jackson

 

[PlutosFriend]

Great.. I clicked on this and it woke up DW Lauri. She started watching it and got all fan-girly over John Taylor and Simon LeBon.

I am with her on the John Taylor! He was a looker in the 80's for me

 

[va32h]

Michael Jackson. In full on military jacket, one white glove, big sunglasses mode.

God, I was so into this when I was 13. I watched the documentary on MTV...I still remember these tidbits: They had to re-do Cyndi Lauper's line, because her jewelry too loudly when she jumped around as she sang. Huey Lewis filled in for someone who walked out and got a solo line. There was supposed to be some chorus of a made-up African sounding word (Sha-la! Sha-lingay!) but they rejected it for fear that it would actually sound like a real word (oh if only they had Google back then!).

I even organized a We are the World singalong at my junior high. We were on the news. I was such a dork.

 

[PlutosFriend]

Because she has good flippin taste!

I still think they looked pretty good. Especially John. In the Simon vs. John thing, I'm on the John side. My best friend was a Simon girl, but I was a John girl.

And to this day I listen to those songs. I think "New Moon on Monday" is one of the best songs EVER!

I knew I had good taste I wasn't a Simon fan at all, just John

 

[PlutosFriend]

No one is paying attention tonight!!

I too was wondering how Mike Tyson played into this

 

[EUROPACL]

Oates...John Oates!

...and *** happend to all that money we sent there. Nevermind I've seen the AK-47's.

 

[1rockinmamato2]

i *think* bob geldof and bono were in the uk song "do they know it's christmas time?" which inspired the "we are the world song"

i'm remembering boy george and george michael and maybe elton john, too?

::ff to look:::

You're right. Bob Geldof wrote "Do They Know It's Christmas?" But, Quincy Jones produced "We Are the World."

Great.. I clicked on this and it woke up DW Lauri. She started watching it and got all fan-girly over John Taylor and Simon LeBon.

Wooo!!! John Taylor! I just had a hot flash. He is soooo sexy!!!

 

[Obi-Wan Pinobi]

Because she has good flippin taste!

I still think they looked pretty good. Especially John. In the Simon vs. John thing, I'm on the John side. My best friend was a Simon girl, but I was a John girl.

And to this day I listen to those songs. I think "New Moon on Monday" is one of the best songs EVER!

John is Lauri's favorite too. I took her to a Duran Duran concert two years ago for her birthday. She had a blast and danced the night away completely forgetting about her constant pain and health issues. It was a great night.

 

[Tiziminchac]

I think the answer to this question is SO obvious, my friend disagrees. Who is the first celebrity you think of related to the song 'We are the World." ?

Without looking at anyone else's answer, I say Michael Jackson.

 

[Linus Van Pelt]

I think the answer to this question is SO obvious, my friend disagrees. Who is the first celebrity you think of related to the song 'We are the World." ?

I would so very much like to say Al Jarreau, but, alas, if I'm to be honest, I must say that I think of Michael Jackson.

More interesting (to me, anyway) are the second and third celebrities I think of:

2. Bob Dylan, because it was the first time in my life that I had been exposed to his almost pathologically nasally singing voice. And, ah, how things do change... what I recoiled at in my callow youth, I've learned to savor in my frustrated middle age.

3. Prince protege Sheila E. Why her, you ask? Because of the fact that it was supposed to be His Royal Badness, himself, who sang on the seminal, if eternally-playing-second-fiddle-to-the-far-superior-Band-Aid-track-"Do-They-Know-It's-Christmas?", recording. But he didn't. And why not? Because he was in the process of having his bodyguard, Big Chick Huntsberry, lay flat a couple of of photographers. So instead, he donated the middling "4 the Tears In Your Eyes" to the We Are the World album.

 

[bumbershoot]

He wasn't in it, but I cannot get Joe Cocker out of my head. I think it's b/c my mind can't seem to get his singing style separated from Bruce Springsteen's style.

I know. Heresy. One of my best friends is from New Jersey and I shouldn't admit it aloud, but I just have never been a big fan of Bruce's.

[runs and hides]

As for Do They Know It's Christmas...I loved that song but it drove me INSANE b/c most of "they" aren't even Christian, so why on EARTH would they care if it's xmas or not? Bonkers, I tell you. Made my mom bonkers too, and she WAS Christian (though I didn't know it at the time...she was a closet Christian, LOL), and still felt like the song was silly and disrespectful to the religions of the people it was meant to help. Sure made "us" feel good, though, didn't it?