Band Aid

It was after watching the harrowing BBC broadcast that he and ex-Boomtown Rat Bob Geldof galvanised a group of pop stars to form Band Aid and produced the single "Do They Know it's Christmas?", which raised millions in famine relief...

In this article: Midge Ure, Ethiopia, Save the Children, Bob Geldof, Britain, Maize, and Cattle

...starvation thanks to a drought that may be the worst in a decade or more. Twenty-five years after a BBC report from Ethiopia kick-started Band Aid and then Live Aid and gave us the defining image of contemporary Africa - the emaciated child,...

In this article: Kenya, Maize, World Food Program, Mwingi, Horn of Africa, Somalia, Ethiopia, Recession, and Sugar

...know about its work, I did not know about torture in the world." Bob Geldof and Ultravox singer Midge Ure - who went on to create the Band Aid records, Live Aid, and Live 8 - first met and worked together at 1981's The Secret Policeman's...

In this article: Amnesty International, John Cleese, Martin Lewis, The Secret Policeman's Other Ball, Monty Python, Peter Luff, London, and UK

...on 23 October 1984, which he described as a "biblical famine". This prompted the Band Aid single, which was organised by Bob Geldof and featured more than 20 other pop stars. The Live Aid concerts in London and Philadelphia raised further...

In this article: Europe, Africa, India, Ethiopia, People's Republic of China, Potato, Ireland, Pesticide, World Food Programme, and Overpopulation

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Bob Geldof says the recording of the new Band Aid single is "firing the starting pistol" to raise cash for Africa. ... Band Aid single. By Ian Youngs. BBC News ...

The new Band Aid single, Do They Know It's Christmas? is played on BBC Radio 1 for the first time on Tuesday. ... Click here to see the full Band Aid 20 line-up ...

Band Aid was a British and Irish charity supergroup, founded in ... Aid, the first disc of which features the BBC news report, as well as the Band Aid video. ...