''Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records'' is the debut studio album by British band Chumbawamba, released in 1986 on Agit-Prop Records. It was released as criticism to Band Aid and Live Aid.

Track listing

All songs written and produced by Chumbawamba. # "How to Get Your Band on Television" - 8:23 (also listed in two parts as "Prelude" and "Slag Aid") # "British Colonialism and the BBC" - 2:51 # "Commercial Break" - 1:02 # "Unilever" - 4:23 # "More Whitewashing" - 3:43 # "An Interlude: Beginning to Take It Back" - 2:41 # "Dutiful Servants and Political Masters" - 2:15 # "Coca-Colanisation" - 2:13 # "...And in a Nutshell" - 0:54 # "Invasion" - 5:07

Track details

"How to Get Your Band on Television" critiques

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. Following a slew of Live Aid-style promotions, sequels and events and the death of Mercury, it was re-written in the 1990s as "Slag Aid", retaining most of the original lyrics. The version released on the live album ''

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Personnel

Band Members * Harry Hamer - drums, vocals, guitar solo on "Slag Aid" * Alice Nutter - vocals *

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- guitar, vocals, clarinet * Mavis Dillon - bass, trumpet, french horn, vocals *

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- vocals, guitar * Danbert Nobacon - vocals *

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- percussion Additional Personnel * Simon "Commonknowledge" Lanzon - keyboards, accordion, vocals * Neil Ferguson - engineer

References

Chumbawamba albums 1986 debut albums Concept albums Agit-Prop Records albums Southern Records albums {{1980s-alt-rock-album-stub