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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.
At a press conference on 10 November 2014, Geldof and Ure announced that another group of artists would come together to record the song, this time under the banner of Band Aid 30 and in aid of the Ebola crisis. The 2014 version was recorded on Saturday 15 November 2014 and released on the following Monday, 17 November.
Whatever he did, it worked, although this effort too came under fire for only featuring one artist of African descent, Emeli Sandé, and for maintaining the original Band Aid’s condescending ...
The vocalists will sing to the music played by a band including Sir Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, Roger Taylor, Thom Yorke, Paul Weller, Damon Albarn, Jonny Greenwood, Gary Kemp and Justin Hawkins.
"That's What Friends Are For" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager. It was first recorded in 1982 by Rod Stewart for the soundtrack of the film Night Shift, but it is better known for the 1985 cover version by Dionne Warwick, [1] Elton John, Gladys Knight, and Stevie Wonder.
It is 40 years today since the first recording of Band Aid took place in London [Band Aid/PA Media] ... Spandau Ballet singer Tony Hadley, who sang on the original 1984 single, told BBC Radio 2 ...
Band Aid (band) Cantaré, cantarás; Chiquitita an ABBA song, sales of which benefit humanitarian relief for children; Hear 'n Aid; Music for UNICEF Concert; Tears Are Not Enough, a 1985 charity single recorded by a supergroup of Canadian artists, under the name Northern Lights, to raise funds for relief of the 1983–85 famine in Ethiopia
The cover for the original Band Aid single, designed by pop artist Sir Peter Blake, features colourful Christmas scenes contrasted with two gaunt Ethiopian children, in black and white, each ...