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Retitled "Do They Know It's Christmas (Feed the World)" with lyrics referring to places on Merseyside, the project was given the go-ahead by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, with Band Aid Liverpool releasing their cover version on 10 December 2020.
Ethiopians knew it was Christmas in the winter of 1984, and they know it now — despite the song’s patronizing question. And Ethiopia continues to be misrepresented in the Western imagination.
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.
The compilation itself sports the 1984, 2004 and 2014 versions of “Christmas,” as well as the new mix and a live version recorded at Live Aid at London’s Wembley Stadium in 1985.
Eminem had two Christmas number ones in the early 2000s. The X Factor (creator and judge Simon Cowell pictured) launched eight consecutive Irish Christmas number ones. Dermot Kennedy, who held Number One in 2020, was the first Irishman to score Christmas number one since Mario Rosenstock in 2005.
Bob Geldof maintains his simple message: 'Feed the world' A few months after Band Aid burst to the top of the U.K. singles chart – where it remained for five weeks – and climbed to No. 13 on ...
The new version of “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” is set to feature vocals from the 1984, 1989, 2004 and 2014 recordings, according to Billboard. It will include renditions from Bono, ...
(second to Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?," which also appears on the top-10 of the PRS chart; "Last Christmas" would finish number two again in 2022, and finally reached Christmas number one in 2023), and 1994's "All I Want for Christmas Is You", now considered a Christmas standard both in the UK and in performer Mariah Carey's ...