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Wendy Dio, the long-time manager and widow of Ronnie James Dio, stated that there are still plans to reissue “Stars,” the 1985 charity single for famine relief published under the Hear ‘N Aid brand, during an appearance on the April 29 broadcast of SiriusXM’s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk”, as per Blabbermouth.
We have been working on that. We’ve had a couple of little things that have happened. But Metal Blade has offered us a deal for this. And hopefully it could come out, yes, soon. And we’re working on a book as well, a Hear ‘N Aid book of photos, because we have so many photos from that time. So, yeah, there’s a lot of Hear ‘N Aid stuff in the works right now. As I said, we have an offer from Metal Blade, and we’ve been working on getting that together. It’s just a lot of stuff, red-tape stuff that has to be done before you can put something out.
Wendy responded as follows when asked if there were still intentions to record a new rendition of “Stars” with contemporary musicians to go along with the reissue of the original song.
Not at the moment, but I would still like to do that. At the moment, we’re trying to get out the Hear ‘N Aid, the original one, on vinyl and on CD. So we’ve been trying to work with that at the moment, and that is what we will put out. In the future. I would like to do that. Yes, I definitely would.
Wendy responded as follows when asked what else would be included in the Hear ‘N Aid edition.
With the book that we’re working on, we are getting people to write, [some of the artists] that were [there], like [Judas Priest’s] Rob Halford. And [prominent U.K. music writer, journalist, and industry executive] Dante Bonutto, who actually wrote the foreword for the original record, he’s going to write something for us. So, yeah, we’ve been working on that. It’s been a very long, hard road to get it out, but we will get it out. We never give up.
