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===Causes=== On 21 January 1985, alongside [[Orange Juice (band)|Orange Juice]], [[the Woodentops]] and [[Everything but the Girl]], Aztec Camera raised an estimated [[Pound sterling|Β£]]18,000 for the striking miners of the [[National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain)|National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)]] through a fundraising event at the [[Brixton Academy]]βthe year-long strike concluded six weeks later.<ref>{{cite news|title=From the archive, 21 January 1985: Pop bands put on miners' benefit show|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/jan/21/archive-orange-juice-miners-strike-benefit-1985|access-date=1 March 2013|newspaper=The Guardian|location=London|date=21 January 1985|author=Robin Denselow}}</ref> Following the release of the ''Love'' album, the band were invited to perform at a benefit concert for the [[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament|Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)]] organisation in the late 1980s. Frame explained in a television interview prior to the concert that he was merely the entertainment and would not deliver any speeches.<ref name="Party">{{cite web|title=Roddy Frame/Aztec Camera on the Garden Party (with Richard Jobson)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjTwFHyGCQQ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/xjTwFHyGCQQ |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|website=bisonrav on YouTube|publisher=Google Inc|access-date=9 June 2014|format=Video upload|date=7 November 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In 1990, Aztec Camera contributed the song "[[Do I Love You?]]" to the [[Cole Porter]] tribute album ''[[Red Hot + Blue]]'' that was produced by the [[Red Hot Organization]]. The proceeds from the album benefited [[HIV/AIDS]] research.<ref>{{cite web|title=AZTEC CAMERA-DO I LOVE YOU?(PV)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWLe_eHGZ3w|via=YouTube|publisher=Google, Inc|access-date=1 March 2013|format=Video upload|date=27 June 2007}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead Youtube links|date=February 2022}}</ref>
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