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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 ...
Nov 25, 2011 · ︎ SPANDAU BASSIST MARTIN KEMP REMINDS US via Twitter that on this day in 1984, he and about 40 other mainly British superstars went into the studio under the group name of Band Aid to record the fund-raising single, Do They Know It’s Christmas? This collabarative gesture in the name of charity held the record for 13 years as the UK’s ...
Dec 2, 2022 · 2 Dec 2022, 07:45. Credit: YouTube. Band Aid’s 1984 song ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ remains one of the most iconic festive tunes of all time. In 1984, Bob Geldof and Ure wrote Do They Know It’s Christmas? to raise money for the famine in Ethiopia, and the song was recorded and performed by the supergroup of British and Irish ...
Nov 12, 2014 · Here are 14 fast facts about the making of the song that may surprise you. 1. Band Aid was the UK's biggest ever selling single for 13 years. It was only eventually pushed off the top spot by ...
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The single surpassed the hopes of the producers to become the Christmas number one on that release. Three subsequent re-recordings of the song to raise further money for charity also topped the charts, first the Band Aid II version in 1989 and the Band Aid 20 version in 2004 and finally the Band Aid 30 version in 2014.
Nov 17, 2014 · U2 frontman Bono returns for the new Band Aid track 30 years on from Bob Geldof's original, but his surrounding cast could hardly be more different. From social media celebrities boasting millions ...
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The project lead naturally the next year to Live Aid, the biggest global rock concert ever, viewed by two billion people in 60 countries, who coughed up still more dollars. It is estimated that Live Aid raised £150m (about $283m). The idea for Band Aid was proposed by one man, Bob Geldof, since granted an honorary knighthood but in 1984 a ...
