feed the world - let them know it's christmas time

it is now going on nearly 25 years since bob geldoff of the boomtown rats organized the brightest and most popular stars of euro-pop to record a christmas song to illuminate the devestating famines occurring then - and still even now - in africa. i was 17 when the song was released and the supergroup called itself 'band aid' with the proceeds going to hunger relief. since that time there hasn't been a holiday season without the song getting airplay. i've no idea if we could call the song a classic. what amazes me is how many people you'll find, or at least i find, still around making music. the biggest face of the crowd i think is arguably bono whose band, u2, in 3 years time would become one of the biggest in the world. anna and i watched the video again tonight via youtube. it isn't christmas without it. perhaps in the new year with all the shit going down that maybe perhaps maybe pop music can again take up causes. maybe perhaps maybe the need for bling turns into desire for a larger good in all its broad manifestations. but then maybe it's the hippie in me, the inner longhair i've been trying to come to peace with. love is harder than hate and to achieve love takes a hell of a lot of effort. it's worth a shot. because without love we are fucked up.