"were available on the tape: The following Commodore 64 games were available: Soft Aid Soft Aid was a Charity Computer Game Software edition, released by Quicksilva in late 1985 to support the Famine Relief in Ethiopia. The software was released on tape for the ZX Spectrum computer and the Commodore 64. On one side of the tape, as well as games, the charity single, Do They Know It's Christmas? by Band Aid was also available if the tape was played (at this point) on an audio tape recorder. The tape was unusual in that it was released to help support"
"and persuaded them to record the single under the title 'Band Aid' for free. On 25 November 1984, the song was recorded at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, London, and was released four days later. It stayed at number-one for five weeks in the UK, was Christmas number one, and became the fastest-selling single ever in Britain and raised £8 million, rather than the £70,000 Geldof and Ure had initially expected. Geldof then set his sights on staging a huge concert to raise further funds. The idea to stage a charity concert to raise more funds for Ethiopia originally"
"impractical for the concert stage, where his energetic shows dictated more robust clothing. The year 1984 was a difficult one for Young, as his first heavy promotional and live concert tour of America strained his vocal cords severely, to the extent that he was forced to rest his voice and did not sing for much of the year. He recovered sufficiently to become involved with the Band Aid single ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"", an all-star charity project put together by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure for Ethiopian famine relief. Young sang the opening lines of the song as a"
"victims in Western Africa and preventing its spread. As in previous incarnations, the group covered the track ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"", written in 1984 by Geldof and Ure. The song was recorded by some of the biggest-selling current British and Irish pop acts, including One Direction, Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sandé, Ellie Goulding and Rita Ora. Bastille and Take That also took part, along with Chris Martin (Coldplay) and Bono (U2)—the third time he contributed to a Band Aid recording. Their version of the song debuted at the chart's summit during the week of its release, then dropped"
"Christmas, sold over a million (making it the highest selling song ever not to be number 1) and proceeds from that also went to the charity. Further Band Aid singles would be released in 1989 (Band Aid II) and 2004 (Band Aid 20), both also Christmas number one. Notes: The 1984 BRIT Awards winners were: 1984 in British music This is a summary of 1984 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. 1984 was a year of several huge selling releases, including at the time the biggest selling single ever. Six singles this year"
"in 1979. """"I saw 'The Secret Policeman's Ball' and it became a part of me. It sowed a seed..."""". In 2001, Bono arranged for U2 to videotape a special live performance for that year's Amnesty benefit show. In 1984, Bono sang on the Band Aid single ""Do They Know it's Christmas?/Feed the World"" (a role that was reprised on the 2004 Band Aid 20 and 2014 Band Aid 30 singles of the same name). Bob Geldof and Bono later collaborated to organise the 2005 Live 8 project, where U2 also performed. Bono and U2 performed on Amnesty's Conspiracy of Hope"
"In 1984, Bono and Adam Clayton participated in Band Aid to raise money for the 1983–85 famine in Ethiopia. This initiative produced the hit charity single ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"", which would be the first among several collaborations between U2 and Bob Geldof. In July 1985, U2 played Live Aid, a follow-up to Band Aid's efforts. Bono and his wife Ali, invited by World Vision, later visited Ethiopia where they witnessed the famine first hand. Bono would later say this laid the groundwork for his Africa campaigning and some of his songwriting. In 1986, U2 participated in the A"
"on 14 November 2004 in benefit of Sudan's troubled Darfur region. The group, consisting of such luminaries as Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin and U2 lead singer Bono, re-recorded the 1984 song ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"", written by Band Aid organisers Bob Geldof and Midge Ure. Stone, who was born two years after the release of the original single, was not initially aware of who Bob Geldof was. The media gleefully reported that she repeatedly referred to him as Bob Gandalf. Despite some criticism, the single became the UK's biggest-selling single of 2004 as well as the 2004 Christmas"
"Andy Bown, among them ""Whatever You Want"", ""Again and Again"", and ""Rain"". In 1984, the year before Quo would open Live Aid, Parfitt and Rossi appeared on the Band Aid charity single, ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"". Bob Geldof asked Parfitt and Rossi to take part, knowing that although the group were from an entirely different musical era and background, their consistent chart success and fame would bring a certain amount of credibility to the project from the rock fraternity and ensure that the group's loyal following of fans (the ""Quo Army"") would support the cause and buy the record"
"Many of the people involved in the original Band Aid single appeared on the 1984 Christmas edition of ""Top of the Pops"", along with Slade, The Thompson Twins, Bronski Beat, Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Jim Diamond to mime to the record. This was the only time the original Band Aid single was performed live on television. However Bono could not attend, and Paul Weller mimed Bono's line. According to the film made by The Tube on the days of the recording 24–25 November 1984, Bob Geldof says The Edge from U2 was to have played guitar on the track"
"going to attend both Live Aid shows as well, but ""they all chickened out."" ""By default, I was the only one who did it,"" he later claimed. Bob Geldof, the organiser of Live Aid, originally asked Collins to be part of Geldof's first charity effort, Band Aid. Collins played the drums and performed backing vocals for Band Aid's UK number one hit in 1984, ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"". Collins first performed with Sting at Wembley, and together they performed ""In the Air Tonight"", ""Against All Odds"", ""Long Long Way to Go"" and ""Every Breath You Take"", accompanied by saxophonist"
"Aid and Live Aid phenomenon of the 1980s. Instead of publicising new Boomtown Rats release as planned, Bob Geldof announced the creation of the Band Aid project on Skinner's Radio 1 show in 1984. Then on 13 July 1985, Skinner made the opening announcement at Live Aid (""It's twelve noon in London ..."") as the event got underway. He also fronted the first hours of BBC TV's Bafta Award-winning coverage. In 2018, Skinner's original Live Aid opening announcement was featured in the remarkable recreation of the concert in the Queen bio-pic 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. In the spring of 1986, Skinner left"
"Band Aid, which continued throughout 1985 until its finale – the historical Live Aid concert on 13 July 1985. The concert was broadcast worldwide including SFR Yugoslavia. Beside ""Do They Know it's Christmas?"" and USA for Africa projects from the UK and USA respectively, plenty of other countries also joined in. For example: Canada, West Germany, Austria, Norway etc. The SFR Yugoslav pop and rock elite also joined Geldof's campaign and formed a Yugoslav Band Aid under the name YU Rock Misija. The group included Oliver Mandić, Željko Bebek, Marina Perazić, Momčilo Bajagić, Aki Rahimovski, Husein Hasanefendić, Slađana Milošević, Jura"
"further singles performed below expectations. George then provided a lead vocal role on the Band Aid international hit single ""Do They Know It's Christmas"". The single featured mostly British and Irish musical acts, and proceeds from the song were donated to feed famine victims in Africa during the 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia. Unlike many of the bands featured on the single, Culture Club did not perform at Live Aid in July 1985. In 1986, George performed a guest-starring cameo role in an episode titled ""Cowboy George"" of the television series ""The A-Team"". Also in 1986, Culture Club released their fourth"
"using artistic talent as art for charity. Some of the other early charity records came from the January 1979 Music for UNICEF Concert, with the likes of ABBA's ""Chiquitita"" and the Bee Gees' ""Too Much Heaven"" released as singles, all the royalties from which went to UNICEF. Band Aid's ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"" in November 1984 began the revolution of the charity record, which would be popularised throughout the 1980s. In the United States, charity records reached their peak with USA for Africa's ""We Are the World"" in 1985, but then essentially died out afterwards. In the United Kingdom,"
"In 1986, Geldof would be knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his efforts. Queen's performance at Live Aid was recreated in the band's 2018 biopic ""Bohemian Rhapsody"". Live Aid Live Aid was a dual-venue benefit concert held on Saturday 13 July 1985, and an ongoing music-based fundraising initiative. The original event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for relief of the ongoing Ethiopian famine. Billed as the ""global jukebox"", the event was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London, England, United Kingdom (attended by 72,000 people) and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United"
"was at the time the joint highest-placed Bond theme on the UK chart where it reached number 2. It was the last single the band recorded as the original five-piece for close to twenty years. As a follow-up to the Christmas 1984 Band Aid single, Duran Duran performed in front of 90,000 people (and an estimated 1.5 billion TV viewers) at the Live Aid charity concert at John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 13 July 1985 while their Bond song held the top spot on the American charts. It was not intended to be a farewell performance—the band"
"by Bill Gordon with assistance from Zev Eizics of Australian Concert Entertainment. Band Aid co-founder Midge Ure was brought to Australia to head the day-long televised performances. Live satellite crosses to fellow co-founder Bob Geldof and other Band Aid performers were included. The concert raised $1 million which was paid to the Red Cross. Bill Gordon floated the idea of a UK concert with Ure utilising all of the performers of Band Aid's charity single ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"". Gordon visited Geldof and the Band Aid Committee in London in April 1985 to secure a place for Australia in"
"on both sides of the Atlantic, but like ""Wonderland"" (and, in fact, all subsequent releases) it was a commercial disappointment in the US, peaking at No. 70 on the ""Billboard"" album chart. On Christmas 1984, the four members participated in the Band Aid charity record ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"". They are among a small handful of acts to contribute a spoken message to the B-side of the single. Throughout 1984 and 1985 the band toured the UK, Europe, and to a lesser extent the US both as headliners and in support of such bigger-name artists as Queen and Roger"
"had 'planted a seed' and appeared to have affected Geldof in a similar manner. In 1984, Geldof responded to a BBC news report from Michael Buerk about the famine in Ethiopia by mobilising the pop world to do something about the images he had seen. With Midge Ure of Ultravox he wrote ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"" in order to raise funds. The song was recorded by various artists under the name of Band Aid. In its first week of release, the single became the UK's fastest-seller of all time, entering the chart at number one and going on to"
"during the 50th show in November 1984 that Bob Geldof allegedly ran into Midge Ure and suggested the idea of a fund-raising single for the Christmas market to help the Ethiopian famine, the project that would become Band Aid and later Live Aid. The Jam performed on the first edition of the show in 1982, it was their last live TV appearance together before they split up at the end of the year. The cornerstone of the shows was the live performances from three or four bands each week. In an era where most music TV shows featured non-stop miming,"
"1.4 million copies in the UK. Wham donated all their royalties from the single to the Ethiopian famine appeal to coincide with the fund-raising intentions of Band Aid's ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"", the song which kept them out of the top spot. Nevertheless, Band Aid's success meant that Michael had achieved #1 status in the UK within three separate entities in 1984—as a solo artist, as one half of a duo, and as part of a charity ensemble. At the end of 1985, the US ""Billboard"" charts listed ""Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"" as the number-three song and"
"African famine relief projects. Sport Aid's slogan was ""I Ran the World"", therefore Tears for Fears released ""Everybody Wants to Run the World"" (no. 5 in the UK and no. 4 in Ireland). Indirectly, the band were involved in the earlier Band Aid single ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"" from 1984, which featured a slowed down sample from their song ""The Hurting"" in the introduction. It was 1989 before the group released their third album, ""The Seeds of Love"" (on which Ian Stanley appeared for the last time as a member of Tears for Fears), at a reported production cost"
"in the music video). Released on 11 December 1989, the Band Aid II version spent three weeks at number one in the UK, becoming the Christmas number one single and the last number one single of the 1980s, and ended the year as the ninth biggest selling single of 1989. Musicians The sleeve also credits ""A Linn"" with playing drums on the record, a joking reference to the programmed Linn drum machine. Band Aid 20 recorded a third version of the song in November 2004 for the twentieth anniversary of the original recording, and again got to number one. The"
"and US, and was Michael's first solo effort as a single. In 1985 Michael received the first of his three Ivor Novello Awards for Songwriter of the Year from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. Michael sang on the original Band Aid recording of ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"" (which became the UK Christmas number one) and donated the profits from ""Last Christmas"" and ""Everything She Wants"" to charity. Michael sang ""Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"" with Elton John at Live Aid at Wembley Stadium in London on 13 July 1985. He also contributed background"
"Live Aid Live Aid was a dual-venue benefit concert held on Saturday 13 July 1985, and an ongoing music-based fundraising initiative. The original event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for relief of the ongoing Ethiopian famine. Billed as the ""global jukebox"", the event was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London, England, United Kingdom (attended by 72,000 people) and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (attended by about 100,000 people). On the same day, concerts inspired by the initiative happened in other countries, such as the Soviet Union, Canada, Japan, Yugoslavia,"
"Live Aid in 1985, singing ""Caribbean Queen"" and ""Loverboy"", from JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. His 1986 album ""Love Zone"" also sold well. It included the successful singles ""When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going"", the theme from the film ""The Jewel of the Nile;"" this was a No. 1 success in the UK and a No. 2 in the United States; and ""There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)"" (a US No. 1, and also a major UK success). Also included were the title track and ""Love Is Forever"", which were No. 10 and No. 16 US"
"Stadium was the venue for an enormous 16-hour charity rock concert, largely the brain-child of Irish singer Bob Geldof, in partnership with Midge Ure from Ultravox. Shocked by the famine in Ethiopia, Geldof had created Band Aid, which had released the single Do They Know It’s Christmas/Feed The World in late 1984. Now he had helped arrange a live charity event on an as yet unheard-of scale. As Geldof later said “Wembley had to be the centrepiece: for the thing to have any authority it had to be staged at Wembley.” It was held simultaneously with John F. Kennedy Stadium"
"""Last Christmas""/""Everything She Wants"" also ended up selling over a million copies and became the biggest-selling single never to reach number 1 in the UK. A 30-minute video titled ""<nowiki>'</nowiki>Do They Know It's Christmas?' – The Story of the Official Band Aid Video"" was released in the UK on 15 December 1984 and in the US on 18 December 1984 on VHS and Betamax formats. The video featured documentary footage shot at the recording session and interviews with Geldof and Ure, as well as the completed promotional video. At the 1986 Grammy Awards the song's video was nominated for the"
"Live Aid concerts, held July 13, 1985, which were an outgrowth of the 1984 charity single ""Do They Know It's Halloween?"" and became the largest musical concert in history with performers on two main stages, one in London, England and the other in Philadelphia, USA (plus some other acts performing in other countries) and televised worldwide. The concert lasted 16 hours and featured nearly everybody who was in the forefront of rock and pop in 1985. The charity event raised millions of dollars for famine relief in Africa. Live Aid became a model for many other fund-raising and consciousness-raising efforts,"
"Band Aid hit, ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"" with Bob Geldof. Ure was rehearsing with Ultravox for an episode of the Channel 4 music show ""The Tube"" when host Paula Yates handed him the phone. It was her then husband, Geldof, who proceeded, recalls Ure, ""to rant on about the Michael Buerk BBC news report on the Ethiopian famine"". Geldof provided the initial lyrics, with Ure working the musical theme on a small keyboard in his kitchen. The second half was composed by Ure, with the bridging chorus only assembled in the studio when the artists had gathered. Ure has"
"Hear 'n Aid Hear 'n Aid was a one-time collaboration of various individual hard rock and heavy metal artists in 1985 to raise money for famine relief in Africa. According to Ronnie James Dio's MySpace profile, the project raised $1 million within a year. While attending a 48-hour charity ""Radiothon"" at the radio station KLOS, Dio members Jimmy Bain and Vivian Campbell noticed that representation from hard rock or heavy metal stars was low. In light of the success of Band Aid's ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"" and USA for Africa's ""We Are the World"", they forwarded an idea to"
"albums worldwide. In 1984, the year before Quo would open Live Aid, Rossi and Parfitt appeared on the Band Aid charity single, ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"" Rossi has also enjoyed minor success with brief projects outside Quo. In 1985 when the band was on hold, he recorded two singles and a (so far unreleased) album – which was provisionally titled ""Flying Debris"" – with his longtime writing partner Bernie Frost. The single releases were ""Modern Romance (I Want to Fall in Love Again)"" (UK No. 54), and ""Jealousy"". In 1996 he issued a solo album, ""King of the Doghouse"","