How To Get Your Band On Television lyrics

Product sells, People die
Same manipulation wrapped in lies
Give a little money and play your rock and roll
The biggest prizes to the biggest fools

In keeping with the fashion for charity, not change
Here`s our contribution: we`ve called it Slag Aid
For every pop star that we slag off today
A million pounds will be given away!

Paul McCarney - Come on Down!
With crocodile tears to irrigate this ground
Make of Ethiopia a fertile paradise
Where everyone sings Beatles songs and buys shares in EMI

Freddie Mercury - This is Your Life!
Thank the Lord that you were born white
And thank apartheid for this wonderful opportunity
To peddle your hypocrisy in Sun City

David Bowie - The Price is Right!
A suitful of compassion and a gobful of shite
Still the voices of those who doubt
Coca-Cola for the peasants to end this drought

Jagger and Richards - Game for a Laugh!
Dancing us down the garden path
To a place where money grows on trees
Where cocaine habits are financed by hunger and disease

Ask the puppet-masters who pull the strings
`Who makes the money when the puppets sing?`
Ask the corporations `Where does the money go?`
Ask the empty bellied children `What are we singing for?`

A Cliff Richard - 3,2,1!
The God who remains when the religion`s gone
Cliff, we`ve got a special surprise for you today
So come closer, step this way

Cliff, you`re such an example of moral worth
Such a purist saint come to bless our Earth
That on behalf of our viewers watching telly
And on behalf of the millions with empty bellies
We`re donating something special that we`re all going to like:
Cliff Richard, we`re going to nail you up to a cross tonight!!

I know there must be more
Than giving just a little bit more
When half of this world is so helplessly poor
Starved of a real solution -
Only charity and tradition
And the cycle of hungry children
Will keep on going round...