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Originally Posted by Moz
I was playing some music from my "Fleetwood Mac Deluxe Anthology" songbook and noticed that Beautiful Child was copyrighted to Music for Unicef. I did a quick Google search and in November of '79, it was officially made that royalties from the song would go to Unicef. They were supposed to do a Music for Unicef concert in February of '79, but they declined (anyone know why?). |
Illness. Don Kirshner mentioned it on a telethon years ago (it's on videotape) & again later when he played a clip of "Sara" live for his "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert" on TV. (He introduced them as the "lady & band with a heart" because of their plans to play the benefit.)
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"MUSIC FOR UNICEF
(Fleetwood Mac)
ICEF 8410/UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (November 1979JMERA
Representative of the International Year of the Child Secretariat and
the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) presented the rock group
"Fleetwood Mac" with a special citation for the donation of their song
"Beautiful Child" to the MUSIC for UNICEF copyright gift programme.
Royalties from songs donated to the programme help to support UNICEF"s
work for children in more than 100 countries around the world.
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I've mentioned the possible link between the UNICEF Year Of The Child in 1979 & the early line in "Gypsy": "...in the year of the child..."