Songs about world hunger and poverty - Class III D

January 2015 - Class III D
In our world food and wealth are poorly distributed so we made a research on the most famous classic songs about world hunger and poverty. This is our work for the Expo 2015 project.

SOME CLASSICS

1) Band Aid was a charity supergroup  featuring mainly American, British, and Irish musicians and recording artists.  It was founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for anti-poverty efforts in Ethiopia by releasing the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" for the Christmas market that year.

USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) was the name under which 44 predominantly U.S. artists, led byMichael Jackson and Lionel Richie, recorded the hit single "We Are the World" in 1985. The song was a U.S. and UK number one for the collective in April of that year. This super group was inspired by Bob Geldof's Band Aid.

2) "Heal the World" is a song from Michael Jackson's hit album, Dangerous, released in 1991.

The video shows poor children living in Africa.

3) "Imagine" is a song written and performed by John Lennon in 1971. 

He asks us to imagine a world at peace without borders, hunger and wars. Is he a dreamer?

4) "Another Day in Paradise" is a song performed by  

Phil Collins, released in 1989. It is about  the problem of hunger and homelessness. 

When someone asks for our help in the street, do we pretend not to hear?

5) Village Ghettoland is a song by Stevie Wonder about poverty and marginalization, released in 1976.

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