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Bob Geldof on 40 Years of ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’: Charity, Controversy & Changing Lives
Bob Geldof on 40 years of "Do They Know It's Christmas?": Charity, controversy and changed lives.
On tap is the return of John O’Farrell’s successful Just For One Day: The Live Aid Musical to London’s West End; it premiered at The Old Vic earlier in 2024 and will make its North American debut at the Ed Mirvish Theatre in Toronto during January. (2024 Ultimate Mix)” — which debuted on Nov. 25 and will be released commercially on Friday, Nov. 29 — does just that, with Trevor Horn, who co-produced the original version with Midge Ure of Ultravox, mashing together performances from that and sequels recorded to commemorate the 20th anniversary in 2004 and the 30th during 2014. Most notably Ed Sheeran publicly said he would not have allowed his performance from the 2014 recording to be used, saying that “my understanding of the narrative associated with this has changed” — specifically citing the Ghanian-English artist Fuse ODG’s contention that the song “perpetuates damaging stereotypes” about Africa.
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