Originally published by L.S. Media On Friday 16th July 2010.
This last week saw the 25th anniversary of the world’s first global concert, a celebration of all things music which was born out of, what was then called Ethiopia’s modern day biblical famine. This event was a concerted effort to bring more attention to the country’s plight and to help right a terrible wrong.
I won’t go into the politics of the time, it takes a person more clever and more learned than I to ever attempt to explain how the cradle of humanity had come to the point of almost complete and utter devastation and destruction, a country seemingly so far away that it barely touched the consciousness of the British Public.