With the upcoming global concerts to try to save the world from a global warming-induced Armageddon and all, we thought it was a cool time to flashback 22 years to Hear N' Aid, a project Ronnie James Dio and the rest of the heavy metal community cooked up to help fight world hunger.

Snuffed big time by Bob Geldof, Midge Ure and all the mega pop acts like Duran Duran and Queen that contributed to Live Aid, 40 metal artists and hundreds of volunteers spent four months writing, coordinating and recording the song "Stars" and its accompanying documentary video, which, by mid 1988, had raised $1 million for the good fight.

Contributing stars included Tommy Aldridge, David Alford, Carmine Appice, Vinnie Appice, Jimmy Bain, Frankie Banali, Eric Bloom, Mick Brown, Vivian Campbell, Carlos Cavazo, Amir Derakh, Ronnie James Dio, Don Dokken, Kevin Dubrow, Brad Gillis, Craig Goldie, Chris Hager, Rob Halford, Chris Holmes, Blackie Lawless, George Lynch, Yngwie Malmsteen, Mick Mars, Dave Meniketti, Dave Murray, Vince Neil, Ted Nugent, Eddie Ojeda, Jeff Pilson, Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser, David St. Hubbins, Rudy Sarzo, Claude Schnell, Neal Schon, Paul Shortino, Derek Smalls, Adrian Smith, Mark Stein, Geoff Tate, and Matt Thorr.

Dio, Dokken, Rob Halford, Iron Maiden, - Hear N' Aid

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For those of you that can't get enough, here are the lyrics along with a line for line breakdown of who did what:

Ronnie James Dio (Dio):
Who cries for the children?
I do

Dave Meniketti (Y&T):
Some time in the night
When you're feeling the cold
 

Ronnie James Dio:
Take a look at the sky above you
 

Rob Halford (Judas Priest):
Those are faces in the light
If the story were told
 

Ronnie James Dio:
They are calling you, calling you
Yeah. We are magic in the night
 

Kevin DuBrow (Quiet Riot):
We are shadow, we are light
 

Dave Meniketti:
We are forever you and I
 

Chorus (vocal lead: Rob Halford):
We're stars
We're stars
 

Eric Bloom (Blue Oyster Cult):
We can be strong
We are fire and stone
 

Paul Shortino (Quiet Riot, Rough Cutt):
And we all want to touch a rainbow
 

Geoff Tate (Queensryche):
But singers and songs
Will never change it alone
We are calling you, calling you
 

Don Dokken (Dokken):
We're the beating of a heart
The beginning we're the start
 

Paul Shortino:
Forever we will shine
Yeah
 

Chorus (vocal leads: Paul Shortino, Don Dokken, Ronnie James Dio, Geoff Tate):
We're stars
We're stars
We're stars
We're stars
Guitar solos:

1st solo: Craig Goldie/Eddie Ojeda
2nd solo: Vivian Campbell/Brad Gillis
3rd solo: Neal Schon/George Lynch
4th solo: Yngwie Malmsteen/Vivian Campbell
5th solo: George Lynch/Carlos Cavazo
6th solo: Brad Gillis/Craig Goldie/Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser

Kevin DuBrow:
We are magic in the night

Rob Halford:
We are shadow, we are light

Geoff Tate:
We are forever you and I

Chorus (vocal leads: Dave Meniketti, Eric Bloom, Rob Halford)
We're stars
We're stars
We're stars
We're stars

We're stars, yeah
We're stars
We are shadow, we are light
We're stars
We are magic in the night
We're stars, oh yeah
We're stars
We're stars
We are magic in the night
We're stars
We are shadow, we are light

We're stars
We're stars
We're stars
We're the magic
We're stars
We're stars
We're the beating of a heart

We're stars
Forever we will shine
We're stars
We're stars
We're stars
We're stars

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Thanks to Blabbermouth.net, we can steer you to this ass-kicking professionally filmed concert from the Hoverfestivalen rock festival  in Norway late last month. Enjoy.

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