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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.
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.
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 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.
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 ...
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.
Their little pop song that could, the anthemic “Do They Know It’s Christmas?,” remains a holiday staple that has raised more than $178 million for the Band Aid Charitable Trust, which ...
Originally the B-side of the 45 rpm of "Russians" in 1985, it was later included on the 1987 holiday compilation album A Very Special Christmas. "Gee Whiz, It's Christmas" Carla Thomas: 1963 Peaked at No. 23 on Billboard 's Christmas Singles chart in December 1963. Inspired by Thomas's 1961 top 10 hit song "Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes)". [13]