The just-released "ultimate remix" of Band Aid's celebrity charity single still makes Africa a caricature of despair for ...
The remix was released on Monday, exactly 40 years after the first recording took place at Sarm Studios in Notting Hill, west ...
It's been 40 years since Band Aid wrote and recorded "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and to celebrate the song's anniversary, ...
The release of the Band Aid single, and the Live Aid concert that followed eight months later, became seminal moments in celebrity fundraising and set a template that many others followed. Do They ...
Recorded in a single day, "Do They Know It's Christmas?" was released in the UK on December 7, 1984, becoming a Christmas number one.
The song "Do They Know it's Christmas?" turned 40 this year. The song's tone of colonialism has made it a point of controversy in recent years. Yet it remains popular and still seen by many as a force ...
a song he co-wrote after seeing ... The original Band Aid release set a record for Christmas sales in the U.K., and eight months later, Geldof organized Live Aid, a televised concert that ...
Geldof defended the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" saying that it had grown into an important piece of political discourse.