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The "Famine Song" is a song sung by some Ulster loyalists in Ulster and Scotland and is normally directed at Catholics and, in Scotland, Irish people, those of Irish descent or those with perceived affiliations to Ireland. [1] It is also sung by fans of Scottish football club Rangers due to rival Celtic's Irish roots.
"Do They Know It's Christmas?" was inspired by a series of reports made by the BBC journalist Michael Buerk in 1984, which drew attention to the famine in Ethiopia. [2] The BBC News crew were the first to document the famine, with Buerk's report on 23 October describing it as "a biblical famine in the 20th century" and "the closest thing to hell on Earth". [3]
The famine would be one such reason, but as that is over there is now nothing stopping them. It is not a demand to go home, merely a mocking suggestion. I am not a Celtic or Rangers fan myself but would just like to set the record straight on this.
They called hundreds of radio and satellite stations asking them to participate. On the morning of April 5, 1985 (Good Friday of that year) at 3:50 pm GMT, over 8,000 radio stations simultaneously broadcast the song around the world. [63] As the song was broadcast, hundreds of people sang along on the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.
Site of Famine Burial Pits at Abbeystrowery. Skibbereen is also the name of a song about the Famine, and the impact it and the British Government had on the people of Ireland. The song, also known as Dear Old Skibbereen, takes the form of a conversation between a father and a son, in which the son asks his father why he fled the land he loved ...
Dick Van Dyke knows he won't be around forever, but when death comes, he won't be afraid.. The legendary entertainer, 98, stars in Coldplay's latest music video for their song, "All My Love," and ...
Live Aid was a two-venue benefit concert and music-based fundraising initiative held on Saturday, 13 July 1985. The event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise further funds for relief of the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia, a movement that started with the release of the successful charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in December 1984.
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