Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records
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| Studio album by Chumbawamba | ||||
| Released | 1986 | |||
| Recorded | August 1986 | |||
| Genre | Anarcho-punk, post-punk, alternative rock, pop music | |||
| Length | 33:04 | |||
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Agit-Prop Records (UK) Southern Records (US 1986 LP) |
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Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records is the debut studio album by anarcho-punk 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.
The sound of Danbert Nobacon vomiting into a toilet was apparently the first thing that sound engineer Neil Ferguson (who later joined the band) recorded for the band.
All songs written and produced by Chumbawamba.
"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 of it released on the live album "Showbusiness!" also references McCartney, but adds Axl Rose, Michael Jackson and Johnny Rotten as more modern examples.
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