and Murray McLauchlan Véronique Béliveau, Robert Charlebois and Claude Dubois (in French) Bryan Adams with Donny Gerrard (Skylark) Alfie Zappacosta with Lisa Dal Bello Carole Pope (Rough Trade) and Paul Hyde (The Payola$) Salome Bey, Mark Holmes (Platinum Blonde) and Lorraine Segato (The Parachute Club) Chorus members Chorus members included: Instrumentation and production David Foster - Keyboards, Producer Jim Vallance - Drums, Engineer, Associate Producer Paul Dean (Loverboy) - Guitar Steven Denroche - French Horn Doug Johnson (Loverboy) - Synthesizer David Sinclair (Straight Lines / Body Electric - Acoustic guitar Hayward Parrott - Engineer Geoff Turner - Engineer Bob Rock (The Payola$) - Engineer Humberto Gatica - Mixing Engineer Recording process Joni Mitchell later spoke to writer Iain Blair about the recording experience: "I know it sounds ridiculous, but I was literally starving when we did the session 'cause my yoga teacher had sent me to a psychic dietician who, while rubbing her chin and swinging her arm around in a circle, had diagnosed a lot of food allergies. The result was, predictably, that I was hardly allowed to eat anything, so by the time I arrived with an apple and a rice patty, my poor stomach was making all these strange noises. Then we get in the studio, and the engineer says he can't record 'cause he's picking up some weird rumbling sound coming from my direction. (She laughed.) And it was all pretty ironic, considering the subject matter!" At one point during the recording process, Foster also had Neil Young re-record his line after singing the word "innocence" flat, to which Young famously quipped, "That's my sound, man." According to journalist Terry David Mulligan, singer/songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie was supposed to be part of the project but did not show up to recording sessions. As a result, the term "Buffy bailed" became an expression in certain Canadian music circles. Video The song's video opens with footage from Brian Stewart's original CBC News report on the famine, and then cuts to the performers singing the song in a studio. Near the end of the video, footage also appears from the 1985 NHL All-Star Game in Calgary, depicting the Campbell Conference All-Stars — including Wayne Gretzky, Grant Fuhr, Jari Kurri and Miroslav Frycer — singing along as the audience waves flags and banners in the air. 2022 live version A live version of "Tears Are Not Enough" was performed at the