From: tapio@nic.funet.fi (Tapio Keih{nen)
Subject: Hear 'N Aid (was: Re: Geoff Tate... (Queensryche alert!))
Organization: Finnish University and Research Network (FUNET)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 00:53:03 GMT

In <1992Dec21.205111.24118@news2.cis.umn.edu> donnell@manowar.micro.umn.edu (BogusMan) writes:

>There is no album, just a 12" inch single of "Stars" with a guitar solo heavy
>instrumental version on the back. It was a benefit for starving africans, I
>believe. 

Sorry, Judex, but you're wrong here... There is an Hear 'N Aid album
- or if there is no Hear 'N Aid album, I have a ghost in my left hand
just now. Here is some information about it:

Hear 'N' Aid   An All-Star Album For Famine Relief

- on the front sleeve there is a picture of all musicians who appear
  on the 'Stars' song [I have the original photo of this picture;
  found it in London a year ago:-]. Geoff Tate is there in the 
  middle - looks like he's really trying to get into camera :-).
 Below of the picture there is a list of the musicians. 
- back sleeve has the song titles & small pictures taken in the
  studio when the guys were recording the 'Stars' song.
- record company is Mercury / Phonogram and the catalog number is
  826 044-1. The record exists only as vinyl and tape and not on CD.
  Or, I should say, I haven't seen this on CD anywhere. It ___might___
  have been released on CD in Japan - I just have this feeling and nothing
  to support it. And, the album is released in 1986.
- Inner sleeve has advertisements for other Hear 'N Aid things, like
  shirts and posters. There is a photo of Jimmy Bain, some girl I
  don't know and Craig Goldie. The other side of the inner sleeve has
  lyrics for 'Stars' and credits etc.
- Most of the songs are performed by bands which didn't appear on
  the 'Stars'. The track listing is:

Side A                              Side B
Hear 'N Aid: Stars                  Kiss: Heaven's On Fire (live)
Accept: Up To The Limit (live)      Jimi Hendrix: Can You See Me
Motorhead: On The Road (live)       Dio: Hungry For Heaven (live)
Rush: Distant Early Warning (live)  Y&T: Go For The Throat
                                    Scorpions: The Zoo (live)

This album is not rare but, on the other hand, it isn't too common
either. I guess it will get rare within next 5 years.

There are at least three different single versions of the 'Hear 'N Aid
Stars':

7"  (HEAR 1 or 884 004-7) Side A has short version of 'Stars' and 
    side B has interviews of the people who were involved with the
    project. made in UK.

12" (HEAR 12) Side A has extended version of 'Stars' and side B has
    those same interviews as 7". There is no 'made in xxx' type of
    texts but the record is most likely made in UK. Vertigo/Phonogram.

12" (884 004-1) Same song/int. as on the 12" above, but given times 
    differ! The above 12" claims 'Stars 7:20' and 'The 4 1/2 minute
    news 5:01' and this one '7:04' and '5:00'. Made in The
    Netherlands. Mercury/Phonogram.

Now, the interesting part follows. There is a mistake on both of those
12"s. They claim that 'B side: Stars (4:43)  The 4 1/2 Minute News
(5:00)'. But there is no Stars on B side! Most copies of the UK
version have the B side Stars title on back sleeve blackened with felt
pen. There are some copies of the UK 12" which still have the Stars
title visible. 

If anyone has that 'visible Stars' version of the UK 12", plese let me
know. I'd be interested in buying it... Same applies also for that
possible CD version of the Hear 'N Aid album.

>There is a video called "The Hear N' Aid Sessions" that was out.
>My roommate got it for a buck z few years back. Lots of singers and 

Is this video released in Europe? If it is, and if someone has it, I'd
be most interested in buying it (the original video, I already have a
copy of it). I might also be interested in buying the USA version of
it (NTSC).

-- 
Tapio Keihanen - tapio@nic.funet.fi \ / "Never look back, never turn!"
                - k135528@cc.tut.fi / \        -Ronnie James Dio, 1981