Years later, e-mails pour in noting how right Ava and C.I. were.
Reader Bruce T. is the latest and wants to note Wikipedia's entry on the 1987 single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (Kat wrote about the update yesterday).
Bruce steers our attention to this passage in the entry and asks if we can find the problem?
Participants
The original Band Aid ensemble consisted of (in sleeve order):
- Adam Clayton (U2)
- George Harrison (The Beatles)
- Freddie Mercury (Queen)
- Paul Stanley (Kiss)
- Mick Jagger (The Rolling Stones)
- Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
- Steve Winwood (Traffic)
- Ozzy Osbourne (Black Sabbath)
- Phil Collins (Genesis, solo)
- Bob Geldof (The Boomtown Rats)
- Steve Norman (Spandau Ballet)
- Chris Cross (Ultravox)
- John Taylor (Duran Duran)
- Paul Young
- Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet)
- Glenn Gregory (Heaven 17)
- Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran)
- Simon Crowe (The Boomtown Rats)
- Marilyn
- Keren (Bananarama)
- Martin Kemp (Spandau Ballet)
- Jody Watley (Shalamar)
- Bono (U2)
- Paul Weller (The Style Council)
- James Taylor (Kool & The Gang)
- Peter Blake (credited as 'sleeve artist')
- George Michael (Wham!)
- Midge Ure (Ultravox)
- Martin Ware (Heaven 17)
- John Keeble (Spandau Ballet)
- Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet)
- Roger Taylor (Duran Duran)
- Sara (Bananarama)
- Siobhan (Bananarama)
- Pete Briquette (The Boomtown Rats)
- Francis Rossi (Status Quo)
- Robert 'Kool' Bell (Kool & the Gang)
- Dennis Thomas (Kool & the Gang)
- Andy Taylor (Duran Duran)
- Jon Moss (Culture Club)
- Sting (The Police)
- Rick Parfitt (Status Quo)
- Nick Rhodes (Duran Duran)
- Johnny Fingers (The Boomtown Rats)
- Boy George (Culture Club)
- Holly (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
- Paul McCartney (The Beatles, Wings)
- David Bowie
Bruce, we all caught it immediately.
And we're screen snapping it before Wikipedia rushes to fix their nonsense.
Do you get what Bruce saw?
1984.
Kurt Cobain is in England in 1984?
Kurt Cobain is still in high school in 1984 in the United States. (He'd drop out in May of 1985.)
Kurt was born February 20, 1967 -- do the math.
It's Crapapedia where fan boys write whatever lies they want. And it's also still highly sexist though not as bad as it was in 2005.
