Then this thing comes on the screen, and their faces fall

Robbie Williams did his bit from L.A. Dido did hers from Australia. Again the difference Rosetta Stone from twenty years ago -- down the fucking wire.Everybody knew what they were there for. But in 84, we had all the news reports coming out of Africa. You dont have that now. I thought, "Hold on, these guys are reenacting a time from their parents lives."Remember the video that Bowie introduced at Wembley? It was footage from the CBC [Canadian Broadcasting Corporation] -- stuff that they wouldnt show on telly because it was too hard. You had these beautiful girls, tanned and healthy, on their boyfriends shoulders, on this beautiful English day. Then this thing comes on the screen, and their faces fall. They crumble theyre sobbing.I showed that video at the session. I was the school teacher: "Please, everyone. I want you to understand what were doing today." I played the video. Towards the end, theres a little Rosetta Stone V3 girl, two years old. The kid has been given fifteen minutes to live theres nothing in the mothers breast. The childs face is like a deaths head. Really, I got quite teary. Then I said, "So you understand what youre going to sing, the direct impact of what youre doing -- that little girl, because of what we did twenty years ago -- here she is."And the girl arrived. She is now this beautiful woman. An agriculturalist. The Sun newspaper found her -- incredible. Band Aid and Live Aid kept millions of those children alive. Ive met national sporting heroes, an Oxford don, a philosopher, all kept alive by it. Joss Stone fled the room, crying. Damon [Albarn] from Blur turned away, sobbing.The difference is, if you listen to the chorus on the first version -- "Feed the world" -- people are singing. Theyre trying to find their harmony and their octave. This Rosetta Stone German one, its a shout, a fucking demand. The promise of 1985 is finally delivered by the Live Aid babies.This is really politics. We addressed the issue through pop, globally, because thats the language people understood. Live Aid was on ninety-five percent of the worlds screens at the time. Heres another time. And we know it will work -- because we got 150 million bucks then. But the U.N. also debated Africa for the first time, and we changed thirty-seven laws governing bilateral relations. Its a broken world, and band-aids wont mend it. But politics will. And who will the politicians listen to? The kids buying this DVD. [Smiles] Which is a great fucking present. The Golden Hornet Project is, in asense, his collaborative autobiography with friend and composerStopschinski, a catalog of their adventures crossbreeding classicalfuturism and Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 punk esprit. Among my faves here so far: a live GoldenArm blowout at the Austin club Emos in 2001 the groups score toF.W. Murneaus 1926 silent film, Faust and theMagma-Boredoms-like bass-drums rumble of AARFYSTEE. You can buy theentire set for five bucks a disk, or order separate (andadditional) works on CD-R for about the same rate atgoldenhornetproject -- not much to ask for a leap of faith.