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"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]
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.
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.
The BBC recently announced a new documentary, The Making of Do They Know Its Christmas, which details how the song was recorded over the course of a single day at a studio in London. It will air ...
Related: 1985 Live Aid Concert to Become a London Stage Musical Geldof also said that in today’s “fractious” world, “people have lost any ability to control events,” but when it comes to ...
Band Aid 20 was the 2004 incarnation of the charity supergroup Band Aid.The group, which included Daniel Bedingfield, Dido, Justin Hawkins of The Darkness, Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead, Chris Martin of Coldplay, Bono of U2, and Paul McCartney, re-recorded the 1984 song "Do They Know It's Christmas?", written by Band Aid organisers Bob Geldof and Midge Ure.
Geldof, who co-wrote “Do They Know It’s Christmas” with Midge Ure, was inspired by 1984 reports by BBC journalist Michael Buerk on the Ethiopian famine, but since then the song has drawn ...