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Sep 22, 2018 · Sales of the Stars single, a subsequent album and other merchandise enabled Hear ‘n Aid to raise a reported $1m in its first year., and Wendy Dio estimates that more than $3m was eventually brought in. Aware that much Band Aid money had gone astray because of government corruption, the Hear ‘n Aid profits were used to buy and send agricultural machinery.
- The story of Hear 'n Aid, the heavy metal Band Aid - Louder
Classic Rock. The story of Hear 'n Aid, the heavy metal Band...
- The story of Hear 'n Aid, the heavy metal Band Aid - Louder
May 16, 2017 · Classic Rock. The story of Hear 'n Aid, the heavy metal Band Aid. By Johnny Black. ( Classic Rock ) published 16 May 2017. Eat your heart out, Bob Geldof – Hear ’n Aid saw the hard-rock community muscling in on the charity single bandwagon. Cue a heavyweight cast, guitar battles and big hair contests. When you purchase through links on our ...
Aug 16, 2022 · In the wake of Bob Geldof and Midge Ure's Band Aid project convened to raise money to aid famine relief in Africa, Vivian Campbell and Jimmy Bain from Dio persuaded their band leader Ronnie James Dio to help mastermind a similarly-philanthropic endeavour representing the hard rock/heavy metal world.
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May 21, 2021 · Image courtesy: Johnson & Johnson Archives. These flat metal tins – the oldest and rarest of the tins for this product, were produced from 1926 until the early 1930s. The last tin of this shape was for BAND-AID ® Brand DryBak Adhesive Bandages in the early 1930s. The eye-catching new graphics were designed to provide a distinctive new look ...
The years 1984 and 1985 marked a golden age of musical charity initiatives, with the Boomtown Rats’ Bob Geldof first organizing the British new wave all-star single, Band Aid’s “Do They Know ...
Mar 8, 2017 · Hear N’ Aid was the cobbled together vision of three Dio members, including Ronnie James, who desired a larger volume of devil horns thrown up for charity. They quickly wrote their own single, “Stars,” and put together a supergroup that included the likes of Rob Halford, Yngwie Malmsteen, Vince Neil, the guitarists of Iron Maiden, Ted Nugent and every member of the glam band Rough Cutt.
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Nov 14, 2011 · {A wonderful mid-twentieth century vintage ad for "Sheer Band-Aids" that includes an image of the great metal type of tin that Band-Aids used to come packaged in. Image via Jon Williamson's terrific Flickr stream.} At the end of the 30s Band-Aids became sterilized (thus making them even more beneficial as a healing agent for wounds).