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Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records is the debut studio album by British band Chumbawamba, released in 1986 on Agit-Prop Records. It was released as criticism to Live Aid, which was a rock festival held in aid of charity efforts in Africa.[1]
Track listing
All songs written and produced by Chumbawamba.[2]
- "How to Get Your Band on Television" - 8:23 (also listed in two parts as "Prelude" and "Slag Aid")
- "British Colonialism and the BBC" - 2:51
- "Commercial Break" - 1:02
- "Unilever" - 4:23
- "More Whitewashing" - 3:43
- "An Interlude: Beginning to Take It Back" - 2:41
- "Dutiful Servants and Political Masters" - 2:15
- "Coca-Colanisation" - 0:54
- "...And in a Nutshell" - 2:13
- "Invasion" - 5:07
Track details
"How to Get Your Band on Television" critiques Paul McCartney, Freddie Mercury, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Cliff Richard's self-promotional techniques, such as Queen's playing in apartheid South Africa. Following a slew of Live Aid-style promotions, sequels and events and the death of Mercury, it was re-written in the 1990s as "Slag Aid", retaining most of the original lyrics. The version released on the live album Showbusiness! also references McCartney, but adds Axl Rose, Michael Jackson and Johnny Rotten as more modern examples.[1]
Personnel
Band Members
- Harry Hamer - drums, vocals, guitar solo on "Slag Aid"
- Alice Nutter - vocals
- Boff Whalley - guitar, vocals, clarinet
- Mavis Dillon - bass, trumpet, french horn, vocals
- Lou Watts - vocals, guitar
- Danbert Nobacon - vocals
- Dunstan Bruce - percussion
Additional Personnel
- Simon "Commonknowledge" Lanzon - keyboards, accordion, vocals
- Neil Ferguson - engineer
References
- ^ a b Ogg, Alex. "Album Review". AllMusic. RhythmOne. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
- ^ "Album overview". Discogs. Retrieved 3 March 2017.