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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 Band Aid 20 version was ... (who sang the tenth line in both the 1984 and 2004 ... The song was covered by the cast of Glee and was released in 2011 as a ...
Band Aid 30’s version certainly didn’t go down in the Christmas Hall of Fame, but it did spend one week at No. 1 on the U.K. chart. Bonus clip: Top of the Pops (1984)
In late-1984, Marilyn took part in the Band Aid charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" along with various other pop stars of the era. [24] In early-1985, facing financial difficulties and being forced to sell his London home, Phonogram Records dispatched him to Detroit, to work with producer Don Was. While in America, he cut his ...
The promotion and merchandise helped "We Are the World" raise more than $80 million (equivalent to $222 million in 2023) [1] for humanitarian aid in Africa and the United States. [2] Another cast of singers recorded a new version, "We Are the World 25 for Haiti", to raise relief following the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
Ed Sheeran claims Band Aid didn't ask for his permission ... the new version is set to feature vocals from four of the recorded versions from 1984 ... 33, who sang on the 2014 version of the track ...
Live Aid was a two-venue benefit concert and music-based fundraising initiative held on Saturday, 13 July 1985. The event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise further funds for relief of the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia, a movement that started with the release of the successful charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in December 1984.
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 ...