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ALISON BOSHOFF: Exactly forty years after the Christmas hit was released... A sea of cocaine, the biggest stars in pop at each other's throats - what really went on the day they recorded the Band Aid single
The day of the Band Aid recording - Sunday, November 25, 1984 - was long and lively. Everyone who was anyone in British music had showed up.
The location for this eclectic gathering was Sarm Studios in London's Notting Hill, with Bob Geldof(then lead singer of The Boomtown Rats) and Ultravox's Midge Ure at the helm. George Michael was particularly outraged when, in 1986 at Wham's tremendous The Final concert at Wembley, he was told that Le Bon wanted to gatecrash the party and come on stage. When one of the band – not named by Martin – asked by reporters at the studio whether he had a 'message for the people of Ethiopia', he responded: 'Yeah, I'd like to say hi, and sorry we haven't been able to get down there on tour this year, but we're hoping to fit it in soon.'
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