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...ungodly hour, but the gig was for an exceptional cause. So 37 top musicians made a point of showing up at 10:30 a.m. in a London studio to record Do They Know It's Christmas? The one-day superstar session-dubbed Band Aid-was organized by Bob Geldof, leader of the British group Boomtown Rats, to raise money for the famine victims of Ethiopia. The $2 single, which will be released in the U.S. this week, has already sold a million copies in England, where it appeared three weeks ago. The record is "enough to make a difference...
Maggots! Corpses! Brutal cops! Fascist regalia! Devouring moms! Faithless wives! And on every possible occasion blood spurting and puddling. At the center of the chaos an innocent everyboy (Bob Geldof, lead singer with those punkers' punkers, the Boomtown Rats) broods about how iniquitous life is driving him crazy. It is a story so familiar that it requires almost no dialogue to tell. Simple-minded songs from the Pink Floyd's 1979 five-time platinum seller do the job, along with banal, if sometimes lively, imagery supplied by Director Alan Parker (Fame, Midnight Express). He has warmed over...