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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

Now, to mark its latest anniversary, the song is coming back around for a fourth time, in the form of an all-star splicing of the three previous official versions. was created by Geldof and Ure to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia, and was followed the following year by Live Aid, the US-UK benefit concerts featuring iconic performances by artists including Queen, David Bowie and Elton John. In 2015, Adekeye Adebajo, then executive director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution, wrote in the Guardian: “Three decades after Live Aid, it is clear that celebrity efforts to ‘save Africa’ have often done more to reinforce negative media stereotypes about the ‘dark continent’ and to portray its one billion citizens as helpless victims in a new ‘white man’s burden’”.

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