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Band Aid Founder Bob Geldof Slams Ed Sheeran’s “Wealthy-World Argument” About Record’s Wrongs
The Boomtown Rats singer responded to Sheeran's statement this week that he would have refused to participate.
This Monday sees the 40th anniversary of the day a roll-call of the UK’s biggest pop stars (and a few overseas guests) came together to record Do They Know It’s Christmas? However, this week he complained that he hadn’t been asked and if he had, he would have refused, reposting a statement by rapper Fuse ODG, arguing that the track perpetuates misleading tropes about African poverty and is “not the truth.” No abstract theory regardless of how sincerely held should impede or distract from that hideous, concrete real-world reality.
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