“Tears Are Not Enough“ is a 1985 charity single recorded by a supergroup of Canadian artists, under the name Northern Lights, to raise funds for relief of the 1983–85 famine in Ethiopia. It was one of a number of such supergroup singles recorded between December 1984 and April 1985, along with Band Aid's “Do They Know It's Christmas?“ in the United Kingdom, USA for Africa's “We Are the World“ in the United States, “Cantaré, cantarás“ by a supergroup of Latin American and Spanish singers, Chanteurs sans Frontières's “Éthiopie“ in France, and Fondation Québec-Afrique's “Les Yeux de la faim“ in Quebec. Instrumentation and production David Foster - Keyboards, Producer Jim Vallance - Drums, Engineer, Associate Producer Paul Dean (Loverboy) - Guitar Steven Denroche - French Horn Doug Johnson (Loverboy) - Synthesizer David Sinclair (Straight Lines / Body Electric - Acoustic guitar Hayward Parrott - Engineer Geoff Turner - Engineer Bob Rock (The Payola$) - Engineer Humberto Gatica - Mixing Engineer
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