ARRIVING at the remote village school in the Tigray highlands, Band Aid icon Birhan Woldu is swamped by a sea of smiling faces. At the head of the crowd, two beaming children are holding a sign ...

In advance of the release of a new mix of Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas?, the singer has distanced himself from the recording, which juxtaposes his voice with those of Bono ...

SLOWLY shaking her head with disgust, Birhan Woldu is seething that her beloved Band Aid has come under attack. “That song helped keep me and thousands of others alive,” said the mother of two ...

in 1984 (Photo: Brian Aris/Band Aid/PA Wire) No song in the history of pop has had an effect quite like Band Aid’s “Do They Know it’s Christmas?” The 1984 star-studded supergroup charity ...

No song in the history of pop has had an effect quite like Band Aid’s “Do They Know it’s Christmas?” The 1984 star-studded supergroup charity single raised £8m for famine relief in ...

There’s an argument to be made for the notion that Band Aid, and the subsequent Live Aid gig, were the culmination of the story of pop music in the UK. Obviously, you’d need to define what you ...

On Tuesday, Nov. 26 during an appearance on CNN This Morning, the Band Aid founder, 73, told anchor Kasie Hunt that he still stands by Band Aid's anniversary release of the song, despite ...

Record producer Mike Stock took aim at Bob Geldof over his explanation as to why Band Aid 2 - the 1989 follow-up to the original 1984 charity single 'Don't They Know It's Christmas?' has been ...

On Nov. 25, Band Aid released the “ultimate remix” of “Do They Know It’s Christmas?,” the rock charity single from 40 years ago that, in addition to whatever good it has done ...

It’s been 40 years since Bob Geldof and Midge Ure created a supergroup of music stars to record an epic charity single. Do They Know It’s Christmas? went on to sell over two million copies ...