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Flashback: Steven Van Zandt, Bruce Springsteen, Bono And Others Record 'Sun City'

It was 37 years ago Sunday (October 16th, 1985) that "Little" Steven Van Zandt enlisted like-minded performers into a studio to cut the track "Sun City." The song, which featured contributions from Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Lou Reed, Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan, and many others in an attack on apartheid, has been credited with helping bring down the all-white minority government of South Africa. Among the notables appearing on the track and in the video were Joey Ramone, Run-DMC, the Temptations' David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks, Pat Benatar, Ruben Blades, Ringo Starr, Zak Starkey, Darlene Love, Bobby Womack, Kurtis Blow, Bonnie Raitt, Hall & Oates, Jimmy Cliff, Nona Hendryx, Peter Wolf, George Clinton, and many more. Steve Van Zandt said that he never had any idea the track would have such an effect on people: "At the time, all I was trying to do was politicize other artists, politicize whatever public I could reach. I was just trying to get people i ....

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Flashback: 'Live Aid' Concerts Raise $140 Mil For African Relief

It was 37 years ago today (July 13th, 1985) that the Live Aid concerts took place in Philadelphia's JFK Stadium and London's Wembley Stadium. The mammoth fundraising shows were organized by then-Boomtown Rats frontman Bob Geldof, who began the music industry's efforts to fight famine in Africa with Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas" all-star single in 1984. Live Aid featured performances by Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger and Tina Turner with Hall & Oates, Madonna, U2, Judas Priest, Duran Duran, Queen, Eric Clapton, Sting, Elvis Costello, the Beach Boys, Bob Dylan with Keith Richards and Ron Wood, David Bowie, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, and scores of others. Led Zeppelin, the Who, and Black Sabbath staged one-off reunions especially for that day. The 16-hour Live Aid marathon was watched by an estimated global audience of 1.5 billion and raised more than $140 million for famine relief. Organizer Bob Geldof recalled that his panic ....

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