The Earthquake Album

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The Earthquake Album
Compilation album by Rock Aid Armenia

Publication
(s)

1990

Format (s)

LP , CD , MC

Title (number)

15th

production

Jon Dee (executive producer)

The Earthquake Album is the title of a 1990 compilation album for the Rock Aid Armenia fundraising project initiated by Jon Dee . The aim of the project was to help the surviving victims of the Spitak earthquake in Armenia . In addition, the Deep Purple title Smoke on the Water was re-recorded with numerous well-known musicians and released as a single in 1989 .

background

On December 7, 1988, an earthquake shook the area around the northern Armenian city ​​of Spitak ( Lori Province ) in what was then the Soviet Union . With an estimated number of at least 25,000 dead and a million homeless, it is one of the worst earthquakes in decades. As a result, humanitarian aid operations by Western organizations in the Soviet Union took place for the first time during the Cold War .

Music project

For The Earthquake Album the following titles were made available by the participating artists:

  1. Rock Aid Armenia - Smoke on the Water '90 (4:07)
  2. Free - All Right Now (4:15)
  3. Rush - The Spirit of Radio (4:58)
  4. Rainbow - Since You Been Gone (3:18)
  5. Black Sabbath - Headless Cross (5:03)
  6. Genesis - Turn It On Again (3:45)
  7. Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart (4:27)
  8. Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Fanfare for the Common Man (2:57)
  9. Whitesnake - Fool for Your Loving (4:17)
  10. Asia - Heat of the Moment (3:50)
  11. Jefferson Starship - We Built This City (4:51)
  12. Foreigner - Juke Box Hero (4:05)
  13. Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills (3:54)
  14. Deep Purple - Black Night (3:27)
  15. Mike & the Mechanics - Silent Running (4:09)

swell

  1. ↑ Soviet Union When the Earth Shook Article in Time magazine , December 19, 1988