The Band Aid Charitable Trust was started by musicians Bob Geldof and Midge Ure after the 1984 famine in Ethiopia. A group of musical artists came together to perform ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’.
The BBC has uncovered unseen footage from the recording day of Do They Know It's Christmas? which shows the pop stars put ...
A re-issue of Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas reinforces colonial racism and could undo much good work done by ...
Originally created by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to address famine in Ethiopia, the song's lyrics have been critiqued for ...
Just as Britain no longer sends missionaries overseas to convert benighted inhabitants of far-flung countries, its wrong for ...
British-Ghanaian musician Fuse ODG has urged other artists to follow in the steps of Ed Sheeran and speak up about the 1984 ...
He has also topped the chart with “The Christmas No. 1” (with Zig and Zag), “Spanish Lady” (with Ronnie Drew), “Rat Trap” ...
On the positive side, both figures continue a downward trend of the past few years. And it is also true that many of those suffering will be doing so as a result of bad choices they have made. But it ...
Band Aid was a rare point of light in the 1980s, a decade when Margaret Thatcher, Arthur Scargill, AIDS, crack and the Cold ...
Band Aid's massively popular 1984 hit raised around £8m for famine relief in Ethiopia and the charity has generated over ...
Fuse ODG encourages artists to reconsider the narrative of the 1984 hit 'Do They Know It's Christmas', which he believes ...
Ed Sheeran and Fuse ODG are among those who have criticised the song Do They Know It's Christmas? ahead of a 40th anniversary ...