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ASecularBuddhist OP t1_j1aileb wrote

“The album producers were surprisingly unaware [uninterested] that a majority of Ethiopians are Orthodox Christians who do very much know when it’s Christmas.”

https://slate.com/technology/2014/04/live-aid-band-aid-usa-for-africa-did-pop-stars-and-hit-songs-help-ethiopia-famine-victims.html

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BlLLr0y t1_j1aon86 wrote

It was a goddamned fundraising effort, yah Scrooge.

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ASecularBuddhist OP t1_j1ap77i wrote

They pulled it off. A very noble pursuit.

The cover art is horrendous.

I take that back. Bob Geldof was warned not to give money to a brutal dictator, and he did it anyway. A completely amazing story that I’ve never heard of before:

https://www.spin.com/2015/07/live-aid-the-terrible-truth-ethiopia-bob-geldof-feature/

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Quirky-Smoke3584 t1_j1b9q2b wrote

But they pulled it off to atrocious effect. And Geldoff walked away from it all, caring more about the global adulation.

The very definition of virtue signaling.

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