There will never be another song like this again so much starpower in one room

the metal we are the world

Finally, a Metal song with a solo that's just long enough!

The whole song is like a bottle of aged cognac with mellow fragrance. Although it has a history of more than 30 years, the more you listen to it, the more it tastes. It makes people forget to return…

I like how Kevin DuBrow is acting like he's leading the band by swinging his arm down to let everyone know to drop pitch.

Dio, Halford and Tate The greatest of all time

First time I’m hearing this and Jesus did I get chills

I love don dokken!!! His voice was the best metal ballad voice and unique!

I'M CRYING BECAUSE OF THE AWESOMENESS!!

Every time Malmsteen stands out such iconical sound

The beginnings of masterclass talented guitarists and vocals. History has been made in this era, 2021 this video is a great way to honour our heroes. Indeed they're were all the stars back then and forever will be nothing can change that period.!!!

I wish Blackie Lawless should have been in some vocal leads.

Adrian Smith and Dave Murray are the greatest guitar duo of all time!!! Even Dio was impressed, when they played their solos! 🤘🤘

There’s a lot of metal tracks out there that are legendary, but this one is still TOP metal track of all time for me. Wicked solos, fantastic vocals, etc all for a righteous cause. That yngwie lick at 4:02 with that forwards charging beat and tempo of the track says all you need to know about this song. It means business

Goosebumps!! Even after 37 years!!

Awesome!!! I remember this very well, as I was a teenager at the time and loved ALL these bands/artists very much. Thanks for sharing this...

A magical moment in music's history!!

Yngwie Malmsteen is just on a another level

Some missing guys I would've loved to have heard as participants would've been Bruce Dickinson, Paul Stanley, Eddie Van Halen, Paul Gilbert, John Sykes, Tony Iommi, Richie Blackmore, Alex Lifeson, Steve Morse, etc.

A vocalist & guitar players dream. Glad this came out back in the day. Surely inspired this 1980s teenager!

Last solo: Dave Murray and Adrian Smith from Iron Maiden.

The obvious are great but Paul Shortino nailed his vocals perfectly. Very underrated

anthem of this planet!!

In case no one has heard the recent news... Ronnie James Dio's widow and longtime manager Wendy Dio has once again said that there are plans to reissue "Stars", the 1985 charity single for famine relief released under the HEAR 'N AID banner. On May 20 and May 21, 1985, 40 artists from the metal community gathered at A&M Records Studios in Hollywood, California to participate in the making of a record called "Stars" as a part of a very special fundraising project spearheaded by Ronnie James Dio known as HEAR 'N AID. The "Stars" single and a video documentary on the making of the record was used to raise money for famine relief efforts in Africa and around the world. These 40 artists - including members of MÖTLEY CRÜE, JUDAS PRIEST, IRON MAIDEN, QUIET RIOT, TWISTED SISTER, BLUE ÖYSTER CULT and even SPINAL TAP - along with hundreds of other volunteers, donated their time and talent over four months to make HEAR 'N AID a reality. "Stars" was a plea for unity in the fight against world hunger. Due to contract differences with the labels, the "Stars" song and album weren't released until New Year's Day, 1986, and were only ever made available on vinyl and cassette. But Wendy is continuing her efforts to correct that. "Well, we've talked about it a lot," she said during an appearance earlier today (Monday, September 25) on SiriusXM's "Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk" (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). "I never seem to have the time, but it will be down the pipeline. I'd like to add some new stuff to it, to get some new, younger bands in there as well to record some stuff along with the old stuff. Obviously all the money will go to [Ronnie James Dio] Stand Up And Shout [Cancer Fund, a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable fund dedicated to support research and education that furthers early detection, prevention and treatment of prostate, colon and stomach cancers]. But it is in the works, but we just have to have the time. Maybe next year I'll have some time to get together with doing it. It's such a lot of things with… The bands are always great and the musicians are always great. It's all of the red tape behind it with the managers and the record labels, and that's what we have to deal with. But we will do it. It will be there sometime soon." Back in 2016, Wendy told "Trunk Nation" that both a new version and the old version of "Stars" will be included on the reissue package. "Because the old version was only ever on, I think, vinyl and cassette; it was never on a DVD or on CD," she explained. "And we also have a lot of stuff that was behind the scenes that wasn't heard or seen, which is kind of fun. There's loads of photos we have. I think we have about a hundred signed posters by everyone, and a lot of those people are not alive now. But I just feel we wanna update it a little bit. So instead of just bringing the old stuff up as a reissue, let's update it with a bonus of some kind."

Yeah back in the early eighties I did that show with Ronnie I was a roadie I worked with Chris Cochran manager of burn my name is Danny kanan wow really takes me back a long ways Good Times rest in peace Ronnie

We're all stars... 80's rock/metal top ten material. And Spinal Tap in there too, for good measure.

No love given to the drummers...Frankie Banali (Quiet Riot) and Vinny Appice (Dio), the bassist Jimmy Bain (Dio), The Iron Maiden Boys (Adrian Smith & Dave Murray) handling Rhythm Guitar duties & Claude Schnell (Dio) on Keyboards also performing Backing vocals were: Blackie Lawless (W.A.S.P.), George Lynch (Dokken),Yngwie Malmsteen, Mick Mars (Mötley Crüe), David St. Hubbins (Spinal Tap), Vince Neil (Mötley Crüe), Ted Nugent, Eddie Ojeda (Twisted Sister), Jeff Pilson (Dokken), Rudy Sarzo (Quiet Riot), Claude Schnell (Dio), Neal Schon (Journey), Derek Smalls (Spinal Tap), Mark Stein (Vanilla Fudge), Matt Thorr (Rough Cutt), Tommy Aldridge (Ozzy Osbourne), Dave Alford (Rough Cutt), Carmine Appice (Vanilla Fudge/King Kobra), Vinny Appice (Dio), Jimmy Bain (Dio), Frankie Banali (Quiet Riot), Mick Brown (Dokken), Vivian Campbell (Dio), Carlos Cavazo (Quiet Riot), Amir Derakh (Rough Cutt), Buck Dharma (Blue Öyster Cult), Brad Gillis (Night Ranger), Craig Goldy (Giuffria), Chris Hager (Rough Cutt), & Chris Holmes (W.A.S.P.)

Ronnie did an amazing job getting all these amazing super stars To work out the arrangements and guitar solos To say you play this solo at this point Wow He must have patience

So many different voices and different sounds, but it spoke one language…. LOVE! 🤘🏼

I got the Hear N Aid LP. Been taking it to the shows I go to for the past several years, trying to get all the surviving participants to autograph it.

They all did a great job!

Vocals 0:17 Ronnie James Dio (Dio) 0:48 Dave Meniketti (Y&T) 0:52 Ronnie James Dio 0:56 Rob Halford (Judas Priest) 1:01 Ronnie James Dio 1:11 Kevin DuBrow (Quiet Riot) 1:15 Dave Meniketti Chorus 1:23 Vocal leads: Rob Halford Vocals 1:32 Eric Bloom (Blue Öyster Cult) 1:36 Paul Shortino (Rough Cutt) 1:41 Geoff Tate (Queensrÿche) 1:51 Don Dokken (Dokken) 2:01 Paul Shortino Chorus 2:07 Vocal leads: Paul Shortino, Don Dokken, Ronnie James Dio, Geoff Tate Guitar Solos (12 bars each) 1st solo 2:26 Craig Goldy (Giuffria) 2:35 Eddie Ojeda (Twisted Sister) 2:43 Craig Goldy 2:47 Eddie Ojeda 2nd solo 2:52 Vivian Campbell (Dio) 3:01 Brad Gillis (Night Ranger) 3:09 Vivian Campbell 3rd solo 3:18 Neal Schon (Journey) 3:26 George Lynch (Dokken) 3:35 Neal Schon 4th solo 3:43 Yngwie Malmsteen 3:52 Vivian Campbell 4:00 Yngwie Malmsteen 5th solo 4:09 George Lynch 4:18 Carlos Cavazo (Quiet Riot) 4:26 George Lynch 4:30 Carlos Cavazo 6th solo 4:35 Brad Gillis 4:43 Craig Goldy 4:52 Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser (Blue Öyster Cult) Vocals 5:11 Kevin DuBrow 5:15 Rob Halford 5:19 Geoff Tate Drums 5:26 Vinny Appice (Dio) 5:29 Frankie Banali (Quiet Riot) Chorus 5:33 Vocal leads: Dave Meniketti, Eric Bloom, Rob Halford Outro solo 6:08 Neil Schon Bass 0:14 Jimmy Bain (Dio) Keyboards 6:34 Claude Schnell (Dio) All guitar melody lines on choruses 5:01 Dave Murray (Iron Maiden) 5:01 Adrian Smith (Iron Maiden Written by Jimmy Bain Vivian Campbell Ronnie James Dio RIP Ronnie James Dio Jimmy Bain Kevin DuBrow Frankie Banali

What an incredible lineup, it will never be matched.

Awesome song, best metal line-up! 👏😀🤘😉👊😎Thanks for all listings in video!🤝😎

I like how Eric Bloom freaking NAILS the part Dio was struggling with xD

Geoff Tate (Queensrÿche) todavia no estaba consagrado con su banda (tenian solo un EP y ¨the Warning¨), fueron soporte de DIO durante su gira x Europa y Asia.Vio el talento vocal de TATE y lo convoco para este proyecto.

Merciiiiiiii pour ce morceau, que des supers musiciens. ❤

This is epic.

And Franki Banali on the drums, with Kevin D, RIP

pure magic............................. RIP Dio

I'd love to see a we are the world style documentary on this..

Some of the biggest metal gods in the business

Cuanta estrella del rock..estrellada...como pasa el tiempo..para todo el mundo.....no somos nada

Ronnie Forever

Dude, great work with the subtitles. I have loved this song since I was a 15 year old metal head back in the mid 80's. There will NEVER be another music decade as strong as the 80's metal era.

My stepbrother Darrell played in Wasp for a while and was with FFDP for a while. So cool.

Awesome music and awesome artists

This is amazing.

How many legends can you fit in one room🤘

Wow, amazing.

Having Spinal Tap there was brilliant, I wish Michael Schenker was invited, or the Scorpions

Brad and Neil overall and the second part from Yngwie totally slay everything else. period. I so f'*** love it. Best guitar solo sequence ever.

Halford 6-octive voice range, Schon lbringing a strat to its full capabilitys, 2nd to none within pauses, un-predictable as to when/where upon neck next pause will evolve. Some are down pulls, somr are multiple string screamers, some are floyd rose enhanced schom patented pauses. At 14 years of age, schon was equilvent to all with 20-30 years under there belt in skills. He is phenominal and beyond comprehensive stellar guitarest. Really practiced many years only to learn achieve even more to provide live for his believers. Schon provided many live his personal home studio videos, last year during stay home pandemic orders. I messaged him towards one of his particular strats he was playing during his videos. He messaged me back approx 20-minutes later, his responce message being " Love em " Schon great person in life, also stellar guitarest that has more tricks/licks than felix the cat will ever know.

Собрались гениальные пацаны потусить и раз, шедевр готов!!!

Tenho esse vinil até hoje. Comprei quando foi lançado.

Would have been better if Bruce Dickinson would have been there too! Bruce has such an incredible, powerful and unique voice with a wide range! His voice is STILL like the voice of a God to this day! 🤘🤘

Never heard of this but I really like it. Thanks for sharing.

We are stars.

Had to chuckle to hear Geoff Tate singing "calling you, calling you" two years before "Revolution Calling" came out.

T O P !

Like right now; I never heard of this song before. I felt the Shock power....

🤘🤘🔝Thanks🔝🤘🤘

1985 was a great time to be alive, what is going on 2022 sucks

I rode my BMX bike to Sound Warehouse when I was 15 years old to buy this.

Best crossover episode in history

Buck Dharma summarized...no buzzing notes,just Burning for you

I had the 45, boy I wish I didn’t toss that and so many other gems

Listen to all that chorus in that intro.

The Ronnie James Dio school of vocals.....

Still most excellent

Missing there- Eric Adams Glenn Tipton Bruce Dickinson But anyway it's a great performance

6:38 Dio: we're the magic Me: yes you are!

never heard of this before...and i saw blackie from WASP there :)

haha I didn't know David St. Hubbins was in the chorus!

wish i couldve taken my guitar that day & hung out in the studio while all those dudes were layin down their magic & I could just hang out & do leads unplugged as iM watching them & maybe Dio would be like....hey lets see how that sounds plugged in, & maybe I tooo couldve ended up on this record with these greats, just as a fluke, but- not likely.

Guitar heaven 😈😈😈

Lynch stole the show and the best part of his solo didn't even get used in the final mix

Ronnie was prophet❤

Wtf is this amazing masterpiece

Still great to this day

4:01 best riff ever

A LIST SOLOS FROM THE BEST AND FUTURE INSPIRTATIONS FOR TODAY SHREDDERS N PICKERS

Curious - is the video being linked somewhere (Facebook, a site, etc)? Suddenly got a lot of traffic - and loving it! Raise the fist to the metal child.

38 years today

Hand made music at its best. 🤘🤘🤘🤘👍

Always thought it was weird that Dio launched this project as a response to no metal artists being asked to be part of "We Are the World," yet Journey was somehow both pop enough to get Steve Perry on that record (which I get) AND metal enough to get Neil Schon on this one (which I really don't). Also, I suspect that at least three of the musicians involved didn't realize that David St. Hubbins and Derek Smalls were actors in character. Even though they had seen This Is Spinal Tap before. Probably the guys from WASP.

Geoff Tate perfect ❤

Fantastic.......who is who....wow Creme de la creme

So, when is the drummer and bass player vid going to be put out. Gotta exist somewhere.

Amidst all the guitar wankering in this song, the ones that actually stand out the most to me are 1.) The Maiden Twin's hauntingly melodic harmonizing. 2.) Eddie Ojeda's simple but heartfelt solo. 3.) Donald "Buck" Dharma's jazzy sounding solo. Everything else sounded like typical shred noise you would've heard on a Saturday afternoon at Guitar Center in 1986. However I will say, Yngwie schooled all of them.

Should have had more views

steven lukather? :(

Would've been cool if Bruce Dickinson was in it and see what he would have done with it:)

I would like to know who played the final solo in the song after all series of solos and last chorus. I wondering if was Neal Schon.

No mention of Murray and Smith doing the harmonies in the chorus? Stopped by middle of the world slavery tour to do it

who plays the outro solo before the songs ends? i read somewhere that it was adrian smith?

This is amazing. The song is so much up their own ass ("we're stars", yeah, guys, we get it :p) and yet it's the most DIO song Dio ever did... with friends! For a cause! Ehh, I gotta say, "they don't make 'em like this no more"...

Dee Snider, Ozzy and Bruce Dickinson should have been there. And why were there no female vocalists? Like Lita Ford, Doro Pesch, Ann and Nancy Wilson, etc.....

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