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Chumbawamba were a British alternative music band that had, over a career spanning three decades, played anarcho-punk, pop-influenced music, world music, and folk music. The band's anarchist politics exhibit an irreverent attitude toward authority, and the band has been forthright in its stances on issues including animal rights, pacifism (early in their career) and later regarding class struggle, feminism, gay liberation, pop culture and anti-fascism.
In July 2012, Chumbawamba announced its decision to end the band.
lyrics :
Open your eyes, time to wake up
Enough is enough is enough is enough
Give the fascist man a gunshot
Trying and trying again
To get this damn thing done, it can't done
Come kill the fascist with a gun
'Cause it's stopping us from unity
We cannot see reality, just vanity, insanity
Fusion, cannot stand it see
No man, fascist man will ever get me outta the land
So, understand fusion plan to stop them with a bang
We sang and sang to make the people all unite
Not fight but fight because the leaders don't think right
You burnt us in the part, you know it won't happen again
So black and white take a stand and all try to defend
All of the people and the children, who are living in the past
Just blast and blast don't make the fascist man last
Open your eyes, time to wake up
Enough is enough is enough is enough
Give the fascist man a gunshot
On and on and on you, the feeling's so strong
So long, it's wrong, I'm telling you it's wrong
Destruction, confusion and blaming it on the color
I wonder in horror 'cause the people start to follow
All the leaders and the rulers who are putting up the fence
It's dens immense and you say you're talking sense
Bull, bull, I want to say it full
But people on the radio, you know, will make a pull
So, I try to tone it down to make the whole world know
That the language of my violence will proceed in my show
Flow, flow to make the fascist man know
That unity is here and unity will grow
Open your eyes, time to wake up
Enough is enough is enough is enough
Give the fascist man a gunshot
Chumbawamba were a British alternative music band that had, over a career spanning three decades, played anarcho-punk, pop-influenced music, world music, and folk music. The band's anarchist politics exhibit an irreverent attitude toward authority, and the band has been forthright in its stances on issues including animal rights, pacifism (early in their career) and later regarding class struggle, feminism, gay liberation, pop culture and anti-fascism.
In July 2012, Chumbawamba announced its decision to end the band.
lyrics :
Open your eyes, time to wake up
Enough is enough is enough is enough
Give the fascist man a gunshot
Trying and trying again
To get this damn thing done, it can't done
Come kill the fascist with a gun
'Cause it's stopping us from unity
We cannot see reality, just vanity, insanity
Fusion, cannot stand it see
No man, fascist man will ever get me outta the land
So, understand fusion plan to stop them with a bang
We sang and sang to make the people all unite
Not fight but fight because the leaders don't think right
You burnt us in the part, you know it won't happen again
So black and white take a stand and all try to defend
All of the people and the children, who are living in the past
Just blast and blast don't make the fascist man last
Open your eyes, time to wake up
Enough is enough is enough is enough
Give the fascist man a gunshot
On and on and on you, the feeling's so strong
So long, it's wrong, I'm telling you it's wrong
Destruction, confusion and blaming it on the color
I wonder in horror 'cause the people start to follow
All the leaders and the rulers who are putting up the fence
It's dens immense and you say you're talking sense
Bull, bull, I want to say it full
But people on the radio, you know, will make a pull
So, I try to tone it down to make the whole world know
That the language of my violence will proceed in my show
Flow, flow to make the fascist man know
That unity is here and unity will grow
Open your eyes, time to wake up
Enough is enough is enough is enough
Give the fascist man a gunshot

![Hear N Aid - Stars (Original Video HQ 1080pᴴᴰ)
Hear n Aid was a one-time collaboration of various individual hard rock and heavy metal artists in 1985 to raise money for famine relief in Africa.
lyrics :
[Ronnie James Dio (Dio):]
Who cries for the children?
I do
[Dave Meniketti (Y&T):]
Some time in the night
When youre feeling the cold
[Ronnie James Dio:]
Take a look at the sky above you
[Rob Halford (Judas Priest):]
Those are faces in the light
If the story were told
[Ronnie James Dio:]
They are calling you, calling you
Yeah
We are magic in the night
[Kevin Dubrow (Quiet Riot):]
We are shadow, we are light
[Dave Meniketti:]
We are forever you and I
[Chorus (vocal lead: Rob Halford):]
Were stars
Were stars
[Eric Bloom (Blue Oyster Cult):]
We can be strong
We are fire and stone
[Paul Shortino (Quiet Riot, Rough Cutt):]
And we all want to touch a rainbow
[Geoff Tate (Queensryche):]
But singers and songs
Will never change it alone
We are calling you, calling you
[Don Dokken (Dokken):]
Were the beating of a heart
The beginning were the start
[Paul Shortino:]
Forever we will shine
Yeah
[Chorus (vocal leads: Paul Shortino, Don Dokken, Ronnie James Dio, Geoff Tate):]
Were stars
Were stars
Were stars
Were stars
[Guitar solos:]
1st solo: Craig Goldie/Eddie Ojeda
2nd solo: Vivian Campbell/Brad Gillis
3rd solo: Neal Schon/George Lynch
4th solo: Yngwie Malmsteen/Vivian Campbell
5th solo: George Lynch/Carlos Cavazo
6th solo: Brad Gillis/Craig Goldie/Donald Buck Dharma Roeser
[Kevin Dubrow:]
We are magic in the night
[Rob Halford:]
We are shadow, we are light
[Geoff Tate:]
We are forever you and I
[Chorus (vocal leads: Dave Meniketti, Eric Bloom, Rob Halford)]
Were stars
Were stars
Were stars
Were stars
Were stars, yeah
Were stars
We are shadow, we are light
Were stars
We are magic in the night
Were stars, oh yeah
Were stars
Were stars
We are magic in the night
Were stars
We are shadow, we are light
Were stars
Were stars
Were stars
Were the magic
Were stars
Were stars
Were the beating of a heart
Were stars
Forever we will shine
Were stars
Were stars
Were stars
Were stars
According to Ronnie James Dios MySpace profile, the project raised $1 million within a year.While attending a 48-hour charity Radiothon at the radio station KLOS, Dio members Jimmy Bain and Vivian Campbell noticed that representation from hard rock or heavy metal stars was low. In light of the success of Band Aids Do They Know Its Christmas? and USA for Africas We Are the World, they forwarded an idea to Ronnie James Dio, also attending the Radiothon, and together decided to create a similar project exclusively built around artists from the hard rock/heavy metal scene.[citation needed] Together the three co-wrote the song Stars.
The song was recorded on May 20 and 21, 1985 at the A&M Records Studio in Hollywood, California. The project included contributions from Ted Nugent, Yngwie Malmsteen, Tommy Aldridge and members of Dio, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Quiet Riot, Dokken, Mötley Crüe, Twisted Sister, Queensrÿche, Blue Öyster Cult, Vanilla Fudge, Y&T, Rough Cutt, Giuffria, Journey, W.A.S.P. and Night Ranger as well as the parody band Spinal Tap. Lead vocals were shared between Ronnie James Dio, Rob Halford, Kevin DuBrow, Eric Bloom, Geoff Tate, Dave Meniketti, Don Dokken and Paul Shortino. Vivian Campbell, Carlos Cavazo, Buck Dharma, Brad Gillis, Craig Goldy, George Lynch, Yngwie Malmsteen, Eddie Ojeda, and Neal Schon all added guitar solos. Iron Maidens Dave Murray and Adrian Smith were in the middle of their World Slavery Tour at the time and flew in to attend the main session. A documentary was shot of the recording process and released simultaneously.
Stars was released in both 7 and 12 single versions. A video documentary, Hear n Aid - The Sessions, was also released in VHS and Video8 formats. The project also released a compilation album headed by Stars, and also including live tracks by Kiss, Motörhead, Dio, Accept, Rush and Scorpions, as well as studio recordings by Y&T and Jimi Hendrix. The single peaked at #26 in the UK Singles Chart in April 1986.
Dio had originally intended the song and album to be released shortly after its recording, but contractual issues with the different artists record labels delayed the release until January 1, 1986, somewhat diminishing the impact of its release.
On 2 November 2011, Dios widow Wendy announced that the song would be re-released. She told Rolling Stone: “I’m going to rerelease [Stars] because it only ever came out on vinyl and cassette. So it’ll come out on DVD and CD, I have loads of outtakes for the video”. In April 2015, Wendy Dio confirmed that a modern-day version of Hear n Aid was in the works to record a new song and released alongside the upcoming reissue of Stars. She had stated that legal stuff was the cause of the reissue delay. Hear N Aid - Stars (Original Video HQ 1080pᴴᴰ)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/m1CdnMPnsqk/mqdefault.jpg)








