The Latest Breaking News from Band Aid

A new refresh of the song, which combines vocals from three past versions, will be released on November 25

Musicians are distancing themselves from the “colonial” Christmas single, but Bob Geldof refuses to change the lyrics

In November 1984, BBC journalist Michael Buerk presented a series of dispatches from the small town of Korem in northern Ethiopia. He described the scenes he encountered as a famine of “biblical proportions” and that aid workers in the region had told him it was “the closest thing to hell…

But how effective will it be as a fundraiser?

The 40th anniversary edition will feature a mix of voices from the three previous editions of the song in 1984, 2004, and 2014

Band Aid is back with the '2024 Ultimate Mix' to mark 40 years of the 'song that changed the world'.

Organiser Sir Bob Geldof said the song serves as a rebuke to the Eighties notion that ‘greed is good’

Fortieth-anniversary edition is spliced together by Trevor Horn from previous versions of the song, including snippets of George Michael, Ed Sheeran and more

Unseen footage from the very first Band Aid recording session for 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' will air in a new BBC documentary about the 1984 charity single.