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Band Aid is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of The Boomtown Rats, Tears for Fears and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Those roots explain a lot about how Band Aid arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Cliff Richard, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Amy Grant, Alison Moyet and Thompson Twins, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Wham!, USA for Africa and Elton John, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 18 connections around Band Aid, reaching back through The Boomtown Rats and forward to Wham!. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Band Aid connections
Band Aid grew out of The Boomtown Rats, Tears for Fears and Frankie Goes to Hollywood, shares an orbit with Cliff Richard, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Amy Grant and Alison Moyet, went on to shape Wham!, USA for Africa and Elton John. 18 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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