The 80s were a charitable time. After England’s Do They Know it’s Christmas raised million dollars for Ethiopian famine relief, US recording artists jumped on the bandwagon with We Are the World. However, I was today years old when I learned that Canada also followed suit. The band was called Northern Lights: Canada for Africa. The song, Tears Are Not Enough, brought together the biggest recording stars and celebrities of the great white north. Gordon Lightfoot. Check. Neil Young. Check. Joni Mitchell. Check. Geddy Lee. Check. Wayne Gretzky. What? Yes. Check!
Add to that Bryan Adams, Burton Cummings of the Guess Who, Cory “sunglasses at night” Hart, Kim “go for soda“ Mitchell, Anne Murray, jazz great Oscar Peterson, Paul Shaffer, half the future cast of Schitt’s Creek, Aldo Nova and so many more, all backed up by, that’s right, Loverboy and others. (I call them Loverboy and other boys)
It’s quite a combination. It’s not something I would listen to every day but I had to listen to it once.
