Supergroup (bands)

In the late 1960s, the term supergroup was coined to describe music groups comprising members of great proficiency who had already achieved fame or respect in other groups or as individual artists. The term took its name from the 1968 album Super Session with Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield, and Stephen Stills. The coalition of Crosby, Stills and Nash (later Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) is another example.

Charity supergroups

• Band Aid: Three groups of British artists who released "Do They Know It's Christmas?" firstly in 1984
• Dreamtime Christmas All-Stars
• Hear n' Aid, a heavy metal charity organized by Ronnie James Dio
• One World Project
• United Artists Against Apartheid
• USA for Africa: 45 American recording artists who recorded "We Are the World" in 1984 to combat famine in Ethiopia
• Supergroup TV show - UK Supergroup vs USA Supergroup in a charity battle of the bands reality show concept