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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 13, 2000 · The runaway success of Band Aid and USA for Africa was followed by a series of one-off concerts which raised further money for the cause. On 13 July, 1985, Geldof took this idea to its logical ...
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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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 ...
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 ...
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Written by Geldof and Ure, the recording featured an impressive cross-section of the most successful British rock and pop acts of the time, under the group name Band Aid 1:
