It’s hard to mention political change within the music industry without mentioning the Band Aid and Live 8 concerts. Perhaps the most popular and successful concerts in history are clearly the most well known. But one has to argue whether or not this was actually down to the music itself or just that the whole event had such a passionate creator. There is no doubt that the concerts and music artists helped, and gave huge awareness to the cause, reaching audiences in the billions, but whether or not the concerts themselves would have actually created the change is questionable. I believe that It was mainly down to Bob Geldof putting such pressure on the government and demanding changes be made.

Although many have tried, including modern artist like Eminem with his 'Mosh' single in which he calls for everyone to vote, I don’t really feel as though great political change is often made. Something on the scale of Band Aid and Live 8 will have the back bone to bring around change, but I don’t think a lonesome artist can have the scope to bring genuine change, and it’s merely a using the idea of poltical undertones as a gimmick