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Band Aid at 40: how the problematic Christmas hit changed the charity sector

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…

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"Still stands as a rebuke to that period in which it was first heard": Bob Geldof announces new remixed version of Do They Know It’s Christmas for single’s 40th anniversary

But how effective will it be as a fundraiser?

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Band Aid back with new 40th anniversary mix of Do They Know It's Christmas?

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

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Do They Know It’s Christmas? The pop stars involved in the 2024 version

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

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Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas? reissued as all-star mashup – including three generations of Bono

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

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Pixie Geldof kept rainbow wedding dress 'hanging' in her 'sitting room'

Pixie Geldof kept her gorgeous rainbow wedding dress "hanging in [her] sitting room for like a year and a half" because she loved it so much.

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Unseen Band Aid footage set to air in Do They Know It's Christmas? documentary

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.

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BBC to mark 40th anniversary of Band Aid single Do They Know It’s Christmas?

The chart-topping charity song brought together a number of British rock stars.

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Wrangling with Abba, risking jail for the Stone Roses … the lawyer behind pop’s big spats

John Kennedy sparred with the Swedes over Mamma Mia! and took on the Rolling Stones for Richard Ashcroft – he tells us why he’s still arguing with Bob Geldof after 40 years

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Enjoy an evening with Bob Geldof at Newcastle's Civic Theatre

The Live Aid founder is touring Australia in March.

Newcastle Herald

New BBC Two documentary tells the story of Wham's Last Christmas as iconic festive hit turns 40

A new documentary marking 40 years of Wham!'s 'Last Christmas' is set to air this December.

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“That's when the phone lines all over the world collapsed… The moment came when people fully understood what this was for”: The creation of The Cars’ song Drive and how it soundtracked a humanitarian catastrophe

“The lyrics don't have to mean anything in an intellectual sense. They're endlessly interpretive. They just have to make an emotional sense”

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The real Kemi Badenoch: key revelations from a new tell-all book

“Blue Ambition: The Unauthorised Biography of Kemi Badenoch” by Lord Ashcroft is out now

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Top Tory thanks Bob Geldof for saving his seat at the election

Shadow foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell puts his unlikely win down to the “Geldof Effect”

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‘We’ve become unhappier’: 12 leading photographers on the images that sum up the Tories’ time in power

Martin Parr, Nick Waplington, Liz Johnson Artur and more share photographs that encapsulate 14 years of Tory rule - from Grenfell to swimming in sewage

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"The fingers aren't very fast but I think I am instantly recognisable": David Gilmour classic guitar interview

Gilmour on the brief Pink Floyd reunion, On An Island and the art of the live guitar solo in this 2006 interview

Evening Standard

Celebrity Big Brother 2024: Best quotes and moments from the series before grand finale

In preparation for tonight’s grand finale, we’ve picked our top 10 moments from this year’s series

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“We hesitated to say yes. The chances of making fools of ourselves were so big”: Live Aid was Queen’s crowning glory. But they nearly turned it down

In the brand new issue of Classic Rock, Queen reveal how one of the greatest live performances in history almost didn’t happen

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OPINION - Live Aid changed my entire outlook on life — and I'm delighted people can now experience it on a London stage

Live Aid, the music event that brought the word together 39 years ago, was surely the greatest demonstration of the power music can have over hearts and minds. Live Aid was not just a concert, it was a movement that spawned a mood of global communality and left an indelible…

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Dear Octopus; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Just for One Day – review

Lindsay Duncan and co create a living period piece in Dodie Smith’s rarely performed marvel of a family portrait; Sarah Snook’s one-woman Wilde is so wrong it’s almost right; and the music carries a tame Live Aid nostalgiafest

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Just For One Day at the Old Vic review: it's sincere, sure, but the Live Aid musical all feels a bit sanitised

Aggressive nostalgia, 80s bangers and corny dialogue: yes, it’s all there

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Just For One Day review – Live Aid musical has soaring voices and pancake-flat characters

Jukebox show celebrating sweary Bob Geldof’s 1985 mega-fundraiser piles homily on cliche in a production in thrall to white saviour stereotypes

Louder

"Bob walked in and started berating everyone that was eating." How a furious Bob Geldof ruined a posh feast and inadvertently had Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Springsteen and the rest eating chicken and waffles during We Are The World

This is one anecdote that seems to have been left off of Netflix's The Greatest Night In Pop documentary

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“Check your ego at the door”: The story of USA for Africa’s We Are The World (and why Prince and Madonna aren’t on it)

A new Netflix documentary is set to shed light on the making of the US chart’s fastest-selling hit. We look back at the making of song, and ask why two of the biggest stars of the ‘80s weren’t at the party

Louder

“It was when we knew Roger Waters wasn’t going to be part of anything we did, but before he’d officially left. He had us trapped in limbo. I was putting my toe in the water”: David Gilmour’s solo career

Despite saying it’s less complicated to work alone, David Gilmour’s association with Pink Floyd means he never wandered far, or for long, from the band

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