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under the name Band Aid Liverpool as a charity record in support of Shelter. Retitled "Do They Know It's Christmas (Feed the World)" with lyrics referring to places on Merseyside, the project was given the go-ahead by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, with Band Aid Liverpool releasing their cover version on 10 December 2020. [212]
The recording studio waived their £85-per-hour fee and gave (the as yet unnamed) Band Aid 24 free hours to record and mix the record, on 25 November 1984. The recording took place at SARM Studios in Notting Hill , owned by Trevor Horn's ZTT Records, between 11 am and 7 pm.
In November 1984, Studio 1 at Sarm West was the venue for the recording of "Do They Know It's Christmas" by the members of Band Aid in support of relief efforts for the 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia, and in November 2014, the studios were used to record the Band Aid 30 charity single. [9]
The original Band Aid release set a record for Christmas sales in the U.K., and eight months later, Geldof organized Live Aid, a televised concert that attracted more than a billion viewers in ...
A few weeks after the BBC film was broadcast in October 1984, Bob Geldof (L) and Midge Ure (R) managed to persuade the top musicians to turn up on a Sunday at a recording studio in west London ...
Last week, Sheeran, 33, claimed on social media that Band Aid didn't ask for his permission to use his vocals (he appeared on the 2014 version of the track) on the new mix, and said that given the ...
Geldof then contacted colleagues in the music industry and persuaded them to record the single under the title 'Band Aid' for free. [11] On 25 November 1984, the song was recorded at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, London, and was released four days later.
Bono’s vocals are highlighted from both the 1984 and 2014 recordings, while the house band features everyone from Paul McCartney, Phil Collins and Thom Yorke to Damon Albarn, Paul Weller and ...