233 - Hear n' Aid Stars 1985

In 1985, Ronnie James Dio assembled an all-star crew for the Hear N' Aid project in answer to Live Aid, which managed to exclude practically the entire hard rock and heavy metal community. The project's idea originally came up when Jimmy Bain and Vivian Campbell visited KLOS-FM in Los Angeles, USA. They introduced the idea to Ronnie James Dio, who became interested in it too. They wrote a song called "Starz" together and invited a number of heavy metal artists to participate it. On May 20th and 21st, 1985, about 40 artists from various heavy metal bands got together at A&M Records Studios to record it. The basic track was already laid down at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles, USA, by Dio and Frankie Banali of Quiet Riot.