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Band Aid is a charity supergroup featuring mainly British and Irish musicians and recording artists. [1] [2] [3] It was founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for anti-famine efforts in Ethiopia by releasing the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" for the Christmas market that year.
Single by Band Aid; B-side "Feed the World" (1984) "One Year On (Feed the World)" (1985) ... The singer Marilyn, who had achieved hit singles in 1983 but whose career ...
Forty-three artists achieved their first top 10 single in 1984, either as a lead or featured artist. This includes the charity group Band Aid (made up of chart acts but charting together for the first time).
The just-released "ultimate remix" of Band Aid's celebrity charity single still makes Africa a caricature of despair for Western ... In 1984, Bob Geldof, then the lead singer for the Boomtown Rats ...
Following the "Bad Habits' singer's statement last week, a representative from Band Aid told PEOPLE that "Ed did not ask to be removed from the record" and "Bob [Geldof] has since also put a call ...
In late-1984, Marilyn took part in the Band Aid charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" along with various other pop stars of the era. [24] In early-1985, facing financial difficulties and being forced to sell his London home, Phonogram Records dispatched him to Detroit, to work with producer Don Was. While in America, he cut his ...
Ed Sheeran post about Band Aid The "Shape of You" singer was referring to an Instagram Stories post from Ghanian-English afrobeats musician Fuse ODG, who revealed why he declined to participate in ...
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.