Quote #76

(On Band Aid) The whole implication was to save these people in Ethiopia, but who were they asking to save them? Some 13-year-old girl in Wigan! People like Thatcher and the royals could solve the Ethiopian problem within ten seconds. But Band Aid shied away from saying that - for heaven's sake, it was almost directly aimed at unemployed people.

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