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Band Aid is back! Iconic charity song's 40th Anniversary set to be marked with a new version featuring original stars George Michael and Sting alongside 2014 favourites Harry Styles and Ed Sheeran
To celebrate 40 years of the song that changed the world, the Do They Know It's Christmas ? 2024 Ultimate Mix is set to be released on 25th November, alongside a special video.
It has become one of the most iconic tracks in pop history, after being originally created by Sir Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in a bid to raise funds for anti-famine efforts in Ethiopia. In 2014, the last version of Band Aid was released, and despite featuring names such as One Direction, Olly Murs, Paloma Faith and Rita Ora, though lyrics were changed to reflect its effort to raise funds for the Ebola outbreak in Africa. 'I said 'OK, just leave me', I recorded them on a cassette.. and I spent four days playing all the instruments and doing the arrangement for the song while he bludgeoned all our friends to come along and had a strength in name and fan base which was incredibly important.
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