Urging the public to ‘feed the world’, Band Aid created the modern association between fame and philanthropy and sparked a ...
Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas? has been number one during Christmas week in Ireland three times since it was first released in 1984.
When the BBC aired journalist Michael Buerk's harrowing reports of Ethiopian famine in 1984, few could have imagined the enduring legacy they would inspire. Among those watching was Irish musician Bob ...