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"Do They Know It's Christmas?" is a charity song written in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia. It was first recorded by Band Aid , a supergroup assembled by Geldof and Ure consisting of popular British and Irish musical acts.
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 ...
Band Aid is the oldest collective name of 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.
Irving Berlin penned "White Christmas" for the classic Christmas movie ... It may have been beaten to #1 in the U.K. by "Do They Know It's Christmas," but it's still number one for all you ...
The trio performed on "Do They Know It's Christmas?", a UK chart-topping collaborative charity single released in 1984. They topped the Australian ARIA albums chart in June 1988 with Wow! (1987), [ 6 ] and earned Brit Award nominations for Best British Single for " Love in the First Degree ", and Best Music Video for their cover of the Supremes ...
The latter is packed with fan service: The cast of the oh-so-’80s music video has a bittersweet reunion in Switzerland, where they poignantly remember Michael, who died on Christmas Day in 2016 ...
The "Frog Chorus" backing on the song was provided by The King's Singers and the choir of St Paul's Cathedral. [3] The B-side of the single contains a "Humming Version" of the song performed by the Finchley Frogettes. The song re-entered the UK Singles Chart in 1985, one of three hits to do so that had originally charted in December 1984.