Stars (Hear-'n-Aid song)

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Stars
Hear 'n Aid
publication January 1, 1986
length 7:16
Genre (s) Rock music
Author (s) Jimmy Bain , Vivian Campbell , Ronnie James Dio
text Ronnie James Dio
music Jimmy Bain, Vivian Campbell
album Hear 'n Aid

Stars is the name of a song written in 1985 by Jimmy Bain , Vivian Campbell and Ronnie James Dio . It was created for the Hear 'n Aid project , the aim of which was to establish a comparable music project in the metal scene based on the model of the Band Aid project around Bob Geldof (1984) to help the victims of the famine in Ethiopia 1984–1985 to collect.

The song

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Stars
  UK 26th 04/19/1986 (6 weeks)

Stars was recorded on May 20 and 21, 1985 with the participation of forty musicians who belonged to popular hard rock and heavy metal bands in the year of its creation . The basic instrumentation corresponds to that of a then modern rock band; the instruments were played by members of the band Dio . These were:

The title begins with the line Who cries for the Children? Sung slowly by Ronnie James Dio . I do.

Only then do the instruments kick in and the song reveals its character as a riff- oriented hard rock song. The title initially follows the scheme of verse - bridge - refrain , but after the second verse there are a total of six solos, each 12 bars long, played by different guitarists . The song ends after 7:16 minutes after another bridge and a fading chorus that contains another short solo played by Neal Schon . In detail, the solos played after the second chorus were taken over by the following guitarists:

  1. Solo: Vivian Campbell (Dio), Brad Gillis ( Night Ranger )
  2. Solo: Brad Gillis, Craig Goldy, Donald Roeser ( Blue Öyster Cult )
  3. Solo: Craig Goldy ( Giuffria ), Eddie Ojeda ( Twisted Sister )
  4. Solo: George Lynch, Carlos Cavazo ( Quiet Riot )
  5. Solo: Yngwie Malmsteen , Vivian Campbell
  6. Solo: Neal Schon ( Journey ), George Lynch ( Dokken )

The melody lines of the choruses were recorded by the two guitarists Adrian Smith and Dave Murray (both from Iron Maiden ). The vocals were taken over by many different singers, the verses were shared by Ronnie James Dio, Dave Meniketti ( Y&T ), Rob Halford ( Judas Priest ), Kevin DuBrow (Quiet Riot), Eric Bloom (Blue Öyster Cult), Paul Shortino ( Rough Cutt ), Geoff Tate ( Queensrÿche ) and Don Dokken (Dokken).

The chorus of the song was sung in the choir, the choral singing was shared:

publication

Stars was released on January 1, 1986 as a single and maxi single, at the same time it appeared on the sampler Hear 'n Aid , which was also released for a good cause, and additionally donated titles from Accept ( Up to the Limit ), Dio ( Hungry for Heaven ), Jimi Hendrix ( Can you see me ), Kiss ( Heaven's on Fire ), Motörhead ( On the Road ), Rush ( Distant Early Warning ), Scorpions ( The Zoo ) and Y&T ( Go for the Throat ).

reception

Stars did not make it into the charts in the USA , but in Great Britain it reached number 26, in the Netherlands number 12, and in Norway even number 1. Stars was the only song - otherwise only albums were selected - that Rock Hard magazine featured in the Listed his 500 best phonograms on 332nd place out of 500. Jenny Rönnebeck called it a “fantastic catchy tune”. She wrote: "The fascinating thing about stars is that the track seems to be made from one piece and yet gets a very personal stamp from every musician, even if only for a few seconds."

swell

  1. ↑ Charts UK
  2. ↑ a b c d Liner Notes from the Hear 'n Aid album
  3. ↑ dutchcharts.nl
  4. ↑ Rock Hard (Ed.): Best of Rock and Metal, Heel-Verlag, Königswinter 2007, ISBN 3-89880-517-4 , p. 78