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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.
and release it as his 2022 Christmas single. Retitled "Food Aid", the single was released on 16 December 2022, and featured Hoyle's wife Roxanne and the financial journalist Martin Lewis. Half of the money raised would go to the Trussell Trust and the other half to the Band Aid Trust. [215]
Band Aid 20 was the 2004 incarnation of the charity group Band Aid. The group, which included Daniel Bedingfield, Justin Hawkins of the Darkness, Chris Martin of Coldplay, Bono of U2, and Paul McCartney, re-recorded "Do They Know It's Christmas?". The song reached No. 1 on 6 November 2004, spent four weeks at that position and became the ...
Last week, Sheeran, 33, claimed on social media that Band Aid didn't ask for his permission to use his vocals (he appeared on the 2014 version of the track) on the new mix, and said that given the ...
But it was on his first Fuller-free album, in 1969, that the band put out one of decade ending classics, “This Girl Is a Woman Now.” (At least this one they knew was old enough.) BGJ 98 Bono
Written by Geldof and Midge Ure of the British rock band Ultravox. A Christmas No. 1 single on the Official Singles Chart in 1984, and re-recorded on three other separate occasions: Band Aid II in 1989, Band Aid 20 in 2004 and Band Aid 30 in 2014. "Don't Shoot Me Santa" The Killers: 2007 Peaked at No. 34 on the Official Singles Chart.
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Irishman Bob Geldof was creator of supergroup Band Aid, who held the number one spot at Christmas in three different incarnations. The Spice Girls held the number one spot at Christmas twice in the late 1990s. Eminem had two Christmas number ones in the early 2000s.