On VH-1 classic...I always thought this was a bob geldof-led project but they just said on vh-1 classic it was led by Little Steven" Van Zandt!!!!!

So Bono is in the video sporting his mullet but damn! He looks fine aside form that fashion don't!!

Pat Benatar, Bob Dylan, Hall & Oates, Jackson Brown, Run DMC, George Clinton...very eclectic mix...but a great song. came out of it in 1985.


From http://www.kathyszaksite....ncity.html

Artists Against Apartheid, featuring: Zak Starkey, Ringo Starr - drums
full credit listing: (covers entire lp)
Little Steven (vocals, guitar, drum programming)
Ray Barretto (vocals, conga)
Peter Wolf, Kurtis Blow, Duke Bootee, David Ruffin, Eddie Kendrick, Joey Ramone, Jimmy Cliff, Daryl Hall, Lou Reed, Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan, Nona Hendryx, Kashif, Big Youth, Peter Garrett, Malopoets, Sonny Okosuns, Gil Scott-Heron, Afrika Bambaataa, Ruben Blades, Bono, George Clinton, Peter Gabriel, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Grandmaster Melle Mel, Bonnie Raitt, Run DMC, Bruce Springsteen, John Oates, Michael Monroe, Darlene Love (vocals)
Zak Starkey, Tony Williams, Ringo Starr (drums)
Sonny Okosuns (talking drums); Keith LeBlanc(drums, drum programming); Benjamin Newman (drum programming)
Pete Townshend, Stanley Jordan, Keith Richards, Ron Wood (guitars)
Shankar (double violin); Clarence Clemmons (saxophone); Miles Davis (trumpet)
Herbie Hancock, Richard Scher, Robbie Kilgore, Zoe Yanakis, (keyboards)
Doug Wimbish (bass); Ron Carter (acoustic bass)
Jam Master Jay, DJ Cheese (scratches)
Daryl Hannah, B.J. Nelson, Lottie Golden, Tina B., Kevin McCormick, The Dunnes Stores Strikers, Annie Brody Dutka And The I.D., Robert Gordon, Steve Walker (background vocals)
[Edited 10/17/05 18:59pm]

I haven't heard that track in long time. I liked it because it was way more militant than the other all-star "issue" songs of the day.

I do have the record on vinyl.

very 80lish.

I actually got quite embarrassed watching that video.

Yup.
And now Mr. Van Zandt has been runnin' a tittie bar for the last 7 years.

It was a cool song and I actually just looked up the CD on Amazon.com and it was going for 90 bucks!!!

USED!!!

I saw this video too for the first time in ages some time in the summer and it is pretty damn funny! Van Zandt is a trip!

That reminds me of 1986's "King Holiday" by Menudo, Run DMC, Kurtis Blow, Teena Marie, El Debarge, New Edition, Whitney Houston, Melle Mel, Whodini, Stacey Lattisaw, James Taylor, Stephanie Mills, Lisa Lisa and Full Force.

That video is craaaazy! Whitney appears in her own floating oval on some Magic Door shit. Either that or it looks like she's gonna start signing the lyrics.

I remember THIS!!!!

All fashion crimes aside , I've always thought that this wacky looking video was pretty revolutionary for its' time, and for today as well; artists don't seem to have the leeway to publically come out against causes or politics they do not believe in without severe media backlash or having it affect their bottom line financially...how the media has responded to artists who initially came out publically against Iraq war and the federal response to Hurricane Katrina are examples...

CinisterCee said:

Oh my god! I completely forgot about this. I'd love to see the video for this now.

I've got the 9 minute 12" version of this! Its great. More a full version than an extended version.

Hilarious!!! I like the part where Eddie Kendricks, David Ruffin and Bruce Springsteen are walking down the street singing. All of a sudden they stop and Springsteen slaps five with the other two like he's got soul. I also like Run DMC's rap. they broke it down. But what's really funny is somebody dancing . I don't know who it is but someone with shades on is doing this sort of running man on crack dance where they'd turn their head and run one way, then the other. I have got to find out who it is. It was a white guy who looked to be in his early thirties at the time.

I saw that vid for the first time in nearly 20 years recently. The song is actually a lot better than I thought it would be 20 years later. It holds up, I think. Detroiters: Remember when Mojo used to play the 12 inch, like twice in a row? and then he'd play the damn instrumental version or the acapella .... He was all about this song!