Northern Lights (band)
Northern Lights was a well-known Canadian band that recorded the 1985 benefit song for Africa Tears Are Not Enough . After Great Britain with Band Aid ( Do They Know It's Christmas? ), The USA with USA for Africa ( We Are the World ) and Germany with the Band für Afrika ( Nackt im Wind ) had started similar projects, the Canadians wanted to use it of a song to collect money for Africa .
The song Tears Are Not Enough was written by David Foster (music) and Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance (lyrics). The French text passages are from Rachel Paiement . It was produced by Bruce Allen and David Foster. Was recorded Tears Are Not Enough on 10 February 1985 in the Manta Sound Studios in Toronto , the instrumental part was previously in Vancouver have been added.
Musician
- David Foster (keyboard)
- Doug Johnson (keyboard)
- Paul Dean (guitar)
- Dave Sinclair (guitar)
- Jim Vallance (drums)
- Steven Denroche (French Horn)
Singers (in alphabetical order)
- Bryan Adams
- Carroll Baker
- Veronique Beliveau
- Salome Bey
- Liona Boyd
- John Candy
- Robert Charlebois
- Tom Cochrane
- Bruce Cockburn
- Burton Cummings
- Dalbello
- Gorden Deppe
- Claude Dubois
- Robin Duke
- Don Gerrard
- Brian Good
- Corey Hart
- Ronnie Hawkins
- Dan Hill
- Mark Holmes
- Tommy Hunter
- Paul Hyde
- Martha Johnson
- Marc Jordan
- Eugene Levy
- Gordon Lightfoot
- Baron Longfellow
- Richard Manuel ( The Band )
- Murray McLauchlan
- Frank Mills
- Geddy Lee ( Rush )
- Kim Mitchell
- Joni Mitchell
- Anne Murray
- Bruce Murray
- Aldo Nova
- Catherine O'Hara
- Oscar Peterson
- Colina Phillips
- Carole Pope
- Mike Reno ( Loverboy )
- Lorraine Segato
- Paul Shaffer
- Graham Shaw
- Leroy Sibbles
- Jane Siberry
- Liberty Silver
- Wayne St. John
- Ian Thomas
- Sylvia Tyson
- Sharon Lee Williams
- Neil Young
- Zappacosta
Tears Are Not Enough on Live Aid and Live 8
Bryan Adams sang Tears Are Not Enough at Live Aid 1985 in Philadelphia and also sang a small passage of this song at Live 8 2005 in Barrie during All for Love , both appearances are included on the respective DVDs .
It is also noteworthy that with Bryan Adams and Neil Young , who also played at Live Aid in Philadelphia , as well as Tom Cochrane , Bruce Cockburn and Gordon Lightfoot, five former members of the Northern Lights were on stage at Live 8 in Barrie .