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1984 song performed past Ring Aid

"Do They Know It's Christmas?"
Do They Know It's Christmas single cover - 1984.jpg

Comprehend artwork by Peter Blake
Single past Ring Aid
B-side
  • "Feed the Earth" (1984)
  • "I Yr On (Feed the Globe)" (1985)
Released three Dec 1984
Recorded 24-25 November 1984
Studio Sarm West Studios, London
Genre Christmas music
Length
  • 3:55 (7" version)
  • 6:twenty (12" version)
Label
  • Phonogram (UK)
  • Columbia (U.s.)
Songwriter(s)
  • Bob Geldof
  • Midge Ure
Producer(s)
  • Midge Ure
  • Trevor Horn (12" and 1985 reissue)

"Practise They Know It'south Christmas?" is a song written in 1984 past Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in reaction to television reports of the 1983–1985 famine in Federal democratic republic of ethiopia. It was first recorded in a single day at Sarm West Studios in Notting Colina, London on 25 November 1984 by Band Aid, a supergroup put together past Geldof and Ure and consisting mainly of some of the most popular British and Irish gaelic musical acts at the time.[1] The single was released in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland on 3 December 1984 and aided past considerable publicity it entered the UK Singles Chart at number one and stayed there for five weeks, becoming the Christmas number one of 1984.[2] It became the fastest selling single in UK nautical chart history, selling a million copies in the first week and passing three one thousand thousand sales on the last day of 1984,[iii] on the mode to displacing Wings'southward "Mull of Kintyre" every bit the biggest-selling single of all time in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland.[4] It held this championship until 1997 when it was overtaken by Elton John'southward "Candle in the Wind 1997", released in tribute to Princess Diana following her expiry.[5] The original version of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" has sold iii.8 million copies in the UK.[6] In a Uk poll in Dec 2012, it was voted 6th on the ITV idiot box special The Nation's Favourite Christmas Song.[7]

The song was also a major success effectually the world, reaching number one in thirteen other countries outside the Uk. In the US, the unmarried barbarous brusque of the top ten in the Billboard Hot 100 due to a lack of airplay, but it had sold an estimated two.5 1000000 copies in the U.s.a. past Jan 1985.[8] [9] Worldwide the single had sold eleven.7 million copies by 1989.[10] Geldof's cautious hope was that the single would raise £lxx,000 for Federal democratic republic of ethiopia, merely "Practice They Know It's Christmas?" raised £8 1000000 within twelve months of release.[11] The single'southward worldwide success in raising sensation and fiscal relief for the victims of the Ethiopian famine led the recording of several other charity singles in the Great britain and in other countries, such as "We Are the World" past USA for Africa. The song besides led to various spin-off charity events, such as Comic Relief, and the Live Help concert which would have place seven months later in July 1985.

"Practise They Know It's Christmas?" has been re-recorded iii times: in 1989, 2004 and 2014. All the re-recordings were also charity records; the 1989 and 2004 versions too provided money for famine relief, while the 2014 version was used to raise funds for the Ebola crunch in Due west Africa. All 3 of these versions also reached number one in the UK, with the 1989 and 2004 versions likewise becoming the Christmas number ones for their respective years. The 2004 version of the song was as well a UK million seller, with ane.8 meg copies sold.[vi]

Background [edit]

The vocal was inspired by a series of reports that Michael Buerk fabricated for BBC idiot box news programmes in 1984, which highlighted the dearth in Ethiopia that was taking place at the time.[12] The BBC News crew were the start to document the famine, with Buerk's report on 23 October describing information technology as "a biblical famine in the 20th century" and "the closest thing to hell on Earth".[13] The report featured nurse Claire Bertschinger who had to choose which child was well plenty to gain admission to the limited corporeality of nutrient at the feeding station and who were likewise sick to exist saved.[xiv] The reports shocked the U.k., motivating the British people to inundate relief agencies, such equally Save the Children, with donations, and as well to bring the world's attention to the crisis in Federal democratic republic of ethiopia.[fifteen] [16] The Boomtown Rats singer Bob Geldof and his then partner, telly presenter Paula Yates, watched the written report broadcast on 23 Oct and were as well deeply afflicted by it.[sixteen] On the nurse Bertschinger, Geldof stated "In her was vested the ability of life and decease. She had become godlike, and that is unbearable for anyone."[fourteen]

On 2 November Yates travelled from the couple's domicile in London to the Tyne Tees studio in Newcastle upon Tyne where she was presenting the weekly live music show The Tube. Amid the acts performing on that calendar week'due south program were Ultravox, promoting their greatest hits album The Collection. Ultravox's front man Midge Ure was chatting to Yates in the dressing room after the bear witness when Geldof called her. On discovering that she was with Ure, an old friend of Geldof'south (they had previously worked together for charity when they appeared at the 1981 benefit evidence The Hugger-mugger Policeman's Ball in London), Geldof asked to speak to Ure and told him that he wanted to practice something to convalesce the suffering in Ethiopia. Ure immediately agreed to help and the pair arranged to meet and discuss ideas over tiffin the following Monday, 5 Nov, quickly coming to the conclusion that the best choice would be to make a clemency record.[xvi]

Following their meeting, Geldof immediately set nearly recruiting other well known musicians to participate on the record:

I then rang Sting and he said, yes, count me in, and then [Simon] Le Bon, he just immediately said tell me the appointment and we'll clear the diary. The same twenty-four hours I was passing by this antique shop and who is standing in in that location but Gary Kemp, only about to go off on tour to Japan. He said he was mad for information technology as well and to wait 10 days till they [Spandau Ballet] got dorsum in the country... all of a sudden it hitting me. I idea, 'Christ, we have got the real acme boys hither', all the big names in pop are all of a sudden set up and willing to do this... I knew then that we were off, and I just decided to go for all the rest of the faces and started to ring anybody up, asking them to do it.[17]

Further telephone calls from Geldof also secured promises of everybody involved in the record's making to provide their services free of accuse, including most of the UK music magazines, which donated advertising space in their publications to promote the single, Geldof'southward record label Phonogram who released the single, their parent company PolyGram who distributed it, and the creative person Peter Blake who created the single'south sleeve.[eighteen]

Composition [edit]

Bob Geldof (left) and Midge Ure (right) co-wrote the song. Ure would as well serve equally the song's producer.

Geldof and Ure's biggest problem was to exist able to come up with a song that could be recorded and released in time for Christmas. They both realised that they would have to write one themselves and not tape a encompass version; otherwise, they would take to pay royalties which would have to be subtracted from the amount raised for clemency. On the Monday afternoon Ure came up with the outline of what he felt sounded a Christmas-like melody on a portable keyboard, which he recorded onto a tape and sent to Geldof, who sarcastically told him that the tune sounded like the theme to Z-Cars.[19] Geldof came to Ure'south house the next 24-hour interval and together they worked on the tune with Geldof on his acoustic guitar. Geldof added lyrics based on a song he had originally written for the Boomtown Rats, as he subsequently recalled:

Information technology was lucky in a way, because I had already written this song, which I had provisionally chosen 'It's My World', and I knew it would be suitable if I just changed the words a bit and called it 'Do They Know Information technology's Christmas?' Midge, reliable as always, sent down this tune which is the sort of Christmassy fleck at the cease and we married the two together.[17]

Ure recorded Geldof and his guitar and used the recording to develop Geldof's ideas later back in his habitation studio, adding his ain melody onto the cease equally a chorus. He later stated that he had been unable to improve on Geldof's lyrics and left most of them as they were, with the exception of the line "And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time" – the original lyric substituted "Africa" with "Federal democratic republic of ethiopia" just Ure decided that this did non scan.[xix]

Geldof'south original idea had been to inquire Trevor Horn to produce the song. At the time Horn was an in-need producer, having produced the 3 number i singles in 1984 for Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Although Horn was receptive to the idea, he told Geldof that he would need at least half-dozen weeks to exist able to produce the vocal, which fabricated it impossible for it to be gear up by Christmas. He did, notwithstanding, offer the use of Sarm Westward Studios in Notting Hill in w London (endemic past Horn and his wife Jill Sinclair) free of charge for twenty-four hours on Sunday 25 November. Horn would subsequently remix and co-produce the 12" version of the single, as well every bit remixing the single for its 1985 re-release. In Horn's absence Ure was assigned the job of producer and he spent several days in his abode studio with his engineer Rik Walton to create the song's bankroll track, programming the keyboards and drum machines and using a sample of the drums from the championship track of Tears for Fears album The Pain for the song's intro. John Taylor of Duran Duran and Paul Weller visited Ure's studio the twenty-four hours before the recording at Sarm West in gild to add bass guitar and atomic number 82 guitar respectively, although Ure and Weller subsequently agreed that the lead guitar did non fit the predominantly synthesizer-based song and subsequently decided not to use Weller's contribution. Ure sang the original guide vocal, although Simon Le Bon and Sting both came to Ure's studio to add together the vocals for their lines.[xix]

Recording [edit]

While Ure was occupied creating the song'due south backing track in the studio, Geldof was busy contacting various British and Irish artists to ask them to appear for the recording session. His program was to have the biggest names in British and Irish gaelic music at the time appear on the tape, and few declined: Geldof later revealed just three people had turned him down, but refused to disclose who.[17] Those he asked simply who were unable to appear instead sent recorded letters of support that appeared on the single's B-side, including David Bowie and Paul McCartney.[xx] Some other United kingdom act who had been successful in 1984, the Thompson Twins, were unable to appear on the Band Assist record every bit they were out of the land and were made aware of the recording too late to return and be involved in it, but they donated part of the proceeds of their then current single "Lay Your Hands on Me" to the Activity for Ethiopia charity.[18] [21]

Geldof and Ure arrived at Sarm West Studios at around 8am on Sunday 25 November with the media in attendance outside. With recording scheduled to begin at x:30am the artists began arriving. Geldof had bundled for the UK paper The Daily Mirror to have sectional access inside the studio, and ensured that a 'squad photo' was taken past the paper's lensman Brian Aris before any recording got under style, knowing that it would be prepare in time to appear in the post-obit day's edition of the newspaper and assist publicise the record.[eleven] The photo also appeared on the back cover of the single.

Ure played the backing track and guide vocals to the artists and then decided, as a manner of getting all involved straightaway, to record the climax first. The artists were put in a huge group and sang the 'Feed the world, let them know information technology's Christmas fourth dimension' refrain over and over again until it was complete. Having recorded the group, Ure chose Tony Hadley of Spandau Ballet to be the first singer into the studio to record his solo role. Hadley admitted that this had been nerve-wracking, knowing that all his contemporaries were watching him.[11] Ane by ane the other assigned singers then did as well, with Ure taping their efforts and so making notes on which segments would exist cutting into the final recording. Le Bon, despite having already recorded his role at Ure'south house, re-recorded information technology so he could be office of the moment. Sting also recorded his words again, this time to provide harmony vocals. Despite being lead singers themselves, both Geldof and Ure had already decided that they would not sing any solo lines, although both took role in the 'feed the world' finale. Ure afterwards stated in his autobiography that he was constantly contesting with Geldof, and telling him to exit when he would come into the production berth and wrongly tell the artist behind the microphone what to sing.[19]

During the recording session, Geldof (correct) persuaded a reluctant Bono (left) to sing the line "Well, this evening thank God it's them, instead of you".[22]

Phil Collins arrived with his unabridged drum kit to tape a live pulsate runway on top of the already programmed pulsate machine. He fix the kit and and then waited patiently until early evening until afterward all the vocals had been recorded. Ure was content with the get-go take that Collins performed, but the perfectionist Collins was unhappy with it and asked for a second take to be recorded, which he was satisfied with.[19]

Although the majority of the artists who took part were the UK or Ireland's biggest musical stars at the time, in that location were a few unusual participants. Members of the Usa group Kool & the Gang appeared on the record because they were signed to the aforementioned record label as the Boomtown Rats, and just happened to be visiting Phonogram'southward London offices on the day that Geldof walked in to pitch his idea for the charity single to the label.[nineteen] Singer Marilyn, who had scored a couple of chart hits a year earlier but whose star had faded throughout 1984, saw the opportunity to reclaim the spotlight and turned up to the recording despite non existence invited to take function, a fact disregarded past Geldof and Ure who felt whatsoever publicity was good publicity and the more stars they could go to appear on the tape, the better. Actor Nigel Planer, who had reached number two earlier in the year with a cover version of "Hole in My Shoe" in the guise of his character Neil from the television comedy serial The Immature Ones, too showed upward uninvited and in character as Neil to play up to the cameras, and after beingness tolerated for a while was sent abroad past Ure.[11]

Geldof also asked Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt, the two frontmen of rock band Status Quo, to take part, knowing that although the group were from an entirely different musical era and groundwork, their consequent chart success and fame would bring a certain amount of brownie to the project from the rock fraternity and ensure that the grouping's loyal post-obit of fans (the "Quo Army") would purchase the record in large numbers.[19] Ure's original thought was for Rossi and Parfitt to sing the "hither'south to you" harmonies in the song's bridge, but he had to shelve the thought because Parfitt could not hit the high notes. This section was eventually taken on by Weller, Sting and Glenn Gregory. Rossi privately told Ure afterwards that in the studio he sang most of Condition Quo's vocal parts and that Parfitt just usually sang onstage, and that Ure should have kept Parfitt abroad from the microphone. Parfitt admitted in a 2004 documentary that he and Rossi had been extremely hungover from partying the night earlier, and were in no fit state to endeavor to tape their vocals.[11] Withal, according to the announcer Robin Eggar, who at the fourth dimension was music correspondent for The Daily Mirror and who was the simply announcer nowadays throughout the recording of the song, the pair were able to contribute in other ways: "One time Status Quo produced their bag of cocaine and the booze started to period – I brought vi bottles of vino from my flat, which disappeared in a infinitesimal – information technology became a political party."[23]

Geldof had been nifty to include Culture Club's Boy George on the single, at the time one of the biggest music stars in the world, and had called him in New York the 24-hour interval before the recording to insist that George turn upward. By midday, with George still absent-minded, an irate Geldof telephoned him again enervating to know where he was. Having only gone to bed a few hours before, a sleepy George was woken upwards by Geldof insisting that he go onto a Concorde transatlantic flight later that morning. However, George went back to sleep post-obit the phone call, and but made it onto the concluding Concorde flight of the day afterward that afternoon. George somewhen arrived at Sarm West at 6pm and went immediately into the recording booth to deliver his lines, the last solo artist of the day.[xi] One time George's contribution had been recorded, Ure began working on the mix as the participants began to party in the studio. A B-side, titled "Feed the World", was also produced by Trevor Horn in his own studio, using the same instrumental track as the A-side and featuring messages from artists who had been at the recording, and too from those who had been unable to attend, including David Bowie, Paul McCartney, the members of Big Land and Holly Johnson from Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Before parting the Sarm Studio, Geldof recorded a statement, which featured every bit the last message on "Feed the World". Geldof'southward spoken-word argument said:

This tape was recorded on the 25th of November 1984. It's now viii AM in the forenoon of the 26th. We've been here 24 hours and I recall it's fourth dimension we went home. Then from me, Bob Geldof, and Midge, we'd say, 'Adept morning to you all, and a million thanks to everyone on the record. Have a lovely Christmas.'[24]

Way and content [edit]

The song comprises two parts: a poetry and bridge which allow individual singers to perform different lines; and a chorus in the class of ii repeated phrases by ensemble. The first line of the recording is sung by Paul Young on the 1984 version, Kylie Minogue on the 1989 version, Chris Martin of Coldplay on the 2004 version, and One Direction on the 2014 version. The opening line was sung by David Bowie at the Live Assistance concert in 1985.[25]

Release and promotion [edit]

The following morning Geldof appeared on Mike Read's BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show to promote the tape and promised that every penny would go to the cause. Well-nigh record retailers agreed to sell the record at its cost price of £i.35 including VAT:[18] still, some refused, citing cost pressures. Geldof was also incensed that the British Government refused to waive the VAT on the sales of the single.[26] He made the headlines by publicly standing up to Prime number Minister Margaret Thatcher. In the end the government relented and donated an amount to the charity equal to the amount of taxation they had collected on the single.[27]

Radio 1 began to play the vocal every hour – unremarkably an A-list single got seven or viii plays per day. The number one single at the time of its release was "I Should Have Known Better" by Jim Diamond, and Diamond was quoted as saying, "I'm delighted to exist at number one, but side by side calendar week I don't want people to buy my record; I want them to purchase Band Assistance instead".[28]

The song had advance orders of 250,000 within a week of its recording,[29] and orders from record dealers had topped ane million past viii December. In guild to see demand, Phonogram had all 5 of their European factories put to work pressing the single.[26]

"Practise They Know Information technology's Christmas?" was released on Mon 3 December 1984.[2] It received further publicity from a launch party on 7 December at the Royal Albert Hall during the charity event "Dinner at Albert'due south", an evening of music to raise coin for Relieve the Children and the Ethiopia Famine Relief Fund.[30] The single entered the UK Singles Chart the following week at number one, outselling all the other records in the chart put together, with the 7" single lone selling 200,000 copies in the commencement ii days of release.[26]

Released in the United states of america on x Dec 1984 on Columbia Records,[31] "Do They Know Information technology's Christmas?" sold ane.9 million copies in its first eleven days on release[3] simply did non reach number one there, due to the more than complex nature of the nautical chart arrangement, which counted airplay too as sales. Despite outselling the official number one by four to one, information technology did not brand the top ten due to a lack of airplay, ultimately peaking at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100.[8]

Due to the time constraints of releasing the single as quickly equally possible, the promotional video for the song simply featured footage from the recording session. David Bowie, who had been Geldof's original choice to sing the song's opening line but who had been unable to attend the recording, flew into England from Switzerland to record a curt introduction for the video to be played on the BBC's flagship goggle box music show Tiptop of the Pops. Nevertheless, Geldof was unhappy when he discovered that the show's regulations meant that the song and its video could not be played until information technology had actually charted. Undeterred, he contacted BBC1 controller Michael Grade directly and persuaded Grade to lodge that every programme preceding that calendar week'southward episode of Top of the Pops should showtime five minutes early to make space to broadcast the song's video (complete with Bowie'due south introduction) but before the show.[28]

Each week of its stay at number one, the video was shown on Meridian of the Pops. Even so, for the Christmas Twenty-four hour period special edition of the plan, most of the artists on the tape appeared in the studio to mime to the song as it was relayed through the speaker arrangement. The ii nigh notable absentees were George Michael and Bono: during Michael's line the cameras focused on the studio audience, while Paul Weller mimed Bono's line to the camera.[32]

The charity received a further heave during Band Aid's five week tenure at the top of the U.k. charts with Wham! at number two with their double A-side "Last Christmas"/"Everything She Wants". Wham! singer George Michael had appeared on the Ring Aid unmarried and he and swain band fellow member Andrew Ridgeley donated all the royalties from their single to the Band Aid Trust.[33] As of 2021, "Last Christmas" has sold almost two 1000000 copies, and until it reached number one in Jan 2021 information technology held the record for the biggest-selling single never to attain number one in the Great britain.[34] [35]

A 30-minute video titled 'Do They Know Information technology'south Christmas?' – The Story of the Official Band Aid Video was released in the United kingdom on 15 December 1984 and in the Usa on 18 December 1984 on VHS and Betamax formats.[31] The video featured documentary footage shot at the recording session and interviews with Geldof and Ure, likewise equally the completed promotional video.[26] At the 1986 Grammy Awards the song's video was nominated for the Best Music Video, Short Grade honor, eventually losing out to its US counterpart song "Nosotros Are the Earth".[36]

Reception and criticism [edit]

The reception in December 1984 to the original single from the UK music printing was mixed. Under a caption of "TURKEY" (a double meaning referring both to the traditional Christmas dinner and an creative failure), the biggest selling music paper NME dismissed the song with the unmarried line, "Millions of Dead Stars write and perform rotten tape for the right reasons".[37] The other two major music papers looked upon the record more favourably, recognising that while musically the vocal was flawed, its intentions were beauteous. Sounds said, "It's far from brilliant (if not quite the Banal Aid some have predicted) but yous tin have fun playing Spot the Star on the vocals, and it deserves to sell by the truckload".[38] Melody Maker stated, "Inevitably, afterwards such massive publicity, the record itself is something of an anti-climax, even though Geldof's sense of universal melodrama is perfectly suited to this kind of epic musical manifesto. Midge Ure's large-screen product and the emotional vocal deliveries of the various celebrities matches the demonstrative sweep of Geldof's lyric, which veers occasionally toward an uncomfortably generalised sentimentality which threatens to turn righteous pleading into pompous indignation. On the other manus, I'thousand sure it's impossible to write flippantly about something equally fundamentally dreadful every bit the Federal democratic republic of ethiopia famine."[39]

In contemporary times, the song has received criticism for what has been described as a colonial western-centric viewpoint and condescending stereotypical descriptions of Africa, notably the phrase sung by Bono: Well this evening thank God information technology's them instead of you.[40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] For the 2014 version, several lyrics that were previously criticised were rewritten, and the song was changed to focus on Ebola rather than the original version's famine.[46] [47] The new lyrics have also been criticised as promoting stereotypes and condescension.[48] [49] [50] [51] [52] However, criticism from Africans regarding the vocal remained: in 2014, African activists and Twitter users complained that the song overlooked the diversity of the continent of Africa and ultimately did more damage than proficient for the people.[53] Musician Fuse ODG turned downward a asking to sing on the 2014 version, stating that the lyrics of the song do not reflect what Africa truly is. He cited lyrics such equally "In that location is no peace and joy in due west (sic) Africa this Christmas"; saying he goes to Ghana yearly for the sole purpose of peace and joy, so singing such lyrics would be a blatant lie.[54] [55] [56] [57]

Geldof and Ure themselves later recognised the musical limitations of "Exercise They Know It'due south Christmas?": in his typically blunt mode, Geldof told Australia's Daily Telegraph in 2010, "I am responsible for 2 of the worst songs in history. The other one is 'We Are the Globe'."[58] Ure's cess in his autobiography was that "it is a song that has nothing to exercise with music. Information technology was all about generating coin... The song didn't matter: the song was secondary, almost irrelevant."[19]

In 2005, a parody version entitled "Do They Know It's Hallowe'en?" was created to poke fun at the lyrics in the original version.[59]

1985 reissue [edit]

"Do They Know It's Christmas?" was reissued the following year on 29 November 1985,[sixty] reaching number three in the Britain Singles Chart the week following Christmas. The 1985 single was remixed by Trevor Horn, the intended producer of the original version, and information technology included an updated B-side entitled "1 Year On (Feed the Earth)", beginning and ending with a recording of a phone message from Geldof and in between featuring Ure reciting a list of what had been bought with the money raised during the previous 12 months.[60]

Personnel [edit]

(adapted from credits on back embrace of the record sleeve)[61] [a]

Notes

  1. ^ Annie Lennox's name also appears on the sleeve credits as a recorded message from her was due to exist included on the B-side, merely the message did not arrive in fourth dimension before the record was pressed.
  2. ^ Midge Ure stated in his autobiography that most of the bass line was created and played on a synthesizer (afterward revealed to be the OSCar[62]), just that John Taylor had added some bass guitar to the song in Ure's dwelling studio on 24 November 1984.

Charts [edit]

Certifications and sales [edit]

Band Aid Ii [edit]

"Do They Know It's Christmas?"
Do They Know It's Christmas single cover - 1989.jpg
Single past Band Help Ii
B-side "Practise They Know It's Christmas?" (Instrumental)
Released xi Dec 1989
Recorded 2–3 December 1989 at The Hit Manufactory, London
Genre Christmas music
Length iv:25
Label
  • PWL
  • Polydor
Songwriter(southward)
  • Bob Geldof
  • Midge Ure
Producer(south) Stock Aitken Waterman

A second version of "Do They Know It'due south Christmas?" was recorded under the name of Band Aid Two in 1989, overseen by the most successful British production team of the belatedly 1980s, Stock Aitken Waterman. Geldof had telephoned Pete Waterman to ask him to produce a new version of the vocal to aid the ongoing situation in Ethiopia, and within 24 hours the recording session had been bundled at Stock Aitken Waterman'due south studios on London's Southward Bank. The recording took identify over the weekend of two and 3 Dec,[106] and featured several artists who had already been produced by SAW, including Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Bananarama, Sonia, and Cliff Richard, as well equally other artists who had large hits in 1989, such as Lisa Stansfield, Jimmy Somerville, Wet Wet Moisture and Bros. Bananarama'due south Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward became the only artists to appear on both the 1984 and 1989 versions of the record. Siobhan Fahey, who had been function of Bananarama's line-up at the time the first recording of the vocal was released, had left the group in 1988.

The lyrics were rearranged for a more traditional 'verse and chorus' structure, with the opening verse existence split in two with a brusk repeat of the ending chorus existence played at the end of both, followed by the "here'southward to you lot" section and a final diffuse version of the closing chorus (with commentary by Michael Buerk played over the outro in the music video).

Released on 11 December 1989,[106] the Band Aid Ii version spent three weeks at number one in the Britain, condign the Christmas number ane single and the last number 1 single of the 1980s, and ended the twelvemonth equally the 9th biggest selling unmarried of 1989.[107]

Personnel [edit]

(adapted from credits on back encompass of the record sleeve)[108]

  • Bananarama
  • Big Fun
  • Bros
  • Cathy Dennis
  • D Mob
  • Jason Donovan
  • Kevin Godley
  • Glen Goldsmith
  • Kylie Minogue
  • The Pasadenas
  • Chris Rea
  • Cliff Richard
  • Jimmy Somerville
  • Sonia
  • Lisa Stansfield
  • Technotronic (incorrectly listed equally "Technotronics" on the record sleeve)
  • Wet Moisture Moisture

Musicians

  • Matt Aitken – keyboards, guitar
  • Luke Goss – drums
  • Chris Rea – guitar
  • Mike Stock – keyboards

The sleeve as well credits "A Linn" with playing drums on the record, a joking reference to the programmed Linn drum machine.

Charts and certifications [edit]

Ring Aid 20 [edit]

"Exercise They Know It's Christmas?"
Do They Know It's Christmas single cover - 2004.jpg
Single past Ring Help 20
B-side
  • "Practise They Know It's Christmas?" (original Ring Aid version)
  • "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (performed at Live Aid, 1985)
Released 29 Nov 2004 (2004-11-29) [118]
Recorded 12–14 November
Studio
  • Mayfair (Primrose Colina)
  • AIR (Hampstead, London)
Genre Christmas music
Length 5:07
Label Mercury
Songwriter(south)
  • Bob Geldof
  • Midge Ure
Producer(south) Nigel Godrich
Music video
Band Assistance 20 "Do They Know It'due south Christmas?" at MTV Britain

Ring 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 recording and release of the single tied in with the release of the Live Help concert on DVD for the first time.[119] The idea was prompted by Coldplay'due south Chris Martin, although Geldof and Ure both got chop-chop involved. Geldof did the publicity and educated the younger artists on the issues (some of whom had non been born, or were very young, when the original was recorded) while Ure assisted producer Nigel Godrich and filmed the upshot for the corresponding documentary.

The gathering of the artists to tape the song'due south chorus took identify at AIR Studios in Hampstead in n London on Lord's day fourteen Nov 2004, although the backing track and many of the solo lines had been recorded over the previous two days.[119] [120] Damon Albarn did not take function in the recording merely turned up to serve tea to the participants.[120]

This version of the song featured an actress segment—a rap by Dizzee Rascal in the midst of the "here's to you" section. Bono flew in peculiarly from Republic of ireland late on Sunday evening to sing the aforementioned line every bit he had done ii decades before,[121] making him the sixth artist to appear on ii versions, in addition to Geldof, Ure, Paul McCartney, Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward (Bananarama).

Personnel [edit]

Charts and certifications [edit]

Ring Assist thirty [edit]

"Practice They Know It's Christmas? (2014)"
Band Aid 30 - Do They Know It's Christmas? (2014).png
Single by Band Aid xxx
Released 17 Nov 2014
Recorded fifteen November 2014
Studio Sarm West Studios, London
Genre Christmas music
Length three:48
Label
  • Virgin EMI
  • Isle
Songwriter(s)
  • Bob Geldof
  • Midge Ure
Producer(south) Paul Epworth

At a press briefing on ten November 2014, Geldof and Ure appear that some other group of artists would come together to re-record the song, this time under the banner of Band Aid 30 and in assistance of the Ebola crunch. The 2014 version was recorded on Saturday 15 November 2014 and released on the following Monday, 17 November.[150]

Background [edit]

Tracey Emin provided the artwork and Paul Epworth produced the track. Vocal contributions came from artists including Ed Sheeran, One Direction, Paloma Faith, Ellie Goulding, Seal, Sam Smith, Sinéad O'Connor, Rita Ora, Emeli Sandé, Bastille and Olly Murs. Returning guest musicians from previous versions of the vocal included Chris Martin (who recorded the opening lines of the 2004 version) and Bono (who sang the tenth line in both the 1984 and 2004 versions).[151] Different the previous versions, where lyrics were almost identical to the original, the lyrics were altered to accost the then-ongoing outbreak. The lyric changes include:

  • "Where the only water flowing is the bitter sting of tears" is replaced with "Where a osculation of love tin can kill y'all and there'south expiry in every tear"
  • "Well tonight give thanks God it'southward them instead of y'all" is replaced with "Well tonight we're reaching out and touching y'all"
  • "Well, in that location won't be snowfall in Africa this Christmas time" is replaced with "Bring peace and joy this Christmas to Westward Africa".
  • "The greatest gift they'll become this year is life" is replaced with "A song of hope where at that place's no hope this night".
  • "Where nothing e'er grows, no rain or rivers menstruum" is replaced with "Why is condolement to be feared? Why is to touch to be scared?".
  • "Underneath that burning sunday" is replaced with "And all there is to come".
  • "Exercise they know..." is rephrased as "How tin can they know...".
  • During the coda, "Feed the earth" alternates with "Heal the earth".

Personnel [edit]

[152]

German version [edit]

A High german-language version of "Do They Know It'south Christmas?" was released on 21 Nov 2014. It was produced past Vincent Sorg and Tobias Kuhn and features vocals from artists including 2raumwohnung, Andreas Bourani, Dice Toten Hosen, Jan Delay, Joy Denalane, Max Raabe, Milky Hazard, Peter Maffay, Silbermond, Thees Uhlmann, and Wolfgang Niedecken.[153]

Rail listing [edit]

Digital download
No. Title Length
i. "Exercise They Know Information technology'south Christmas? (2014)" three:48
German digital download – German version
No. Title Length
i. "Do They Know Information technology's Christmas? (2014)" (Deutsche version) three:55
German CD single
No. Title Length
1. "Do They Know It's Christmas? (2014)" (Deutsche version) 3:56
2. "Do They Know Information technology'due south Christmas? (2014)" iii:fifty
German CD maxi-single
No. Title Length
1. "Do They Know It's Christmas? (2014)" (Deutsche version) 3:56
2. "Practice They Know It's Christmas? (2014)" 3:50
three. "Do They Know Information technology's Christmas? (2004 version)" (Ring Aid twenty) five:06
4. "Do They Know It's Christmas? (1989 version)" (Band Aid II) 4:22
5. "Practice They Know Information technology'southward Christmas? (1984 version)" (Ring Assistance) three:52

Charts and certifications [edit]

Release history [edit]

Glee Cast version [edit]

"Practice They Know It's Christmas?"
Single past Glee cast
from the album Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album Volume two
Released xv November 2011
Recorded 2011
Genre Pop, Christmas music
Length 3:25
Label Columbia
Songwriter(due south)
  • Bob Geldof
  • Midge Ure

The vocal was covered past the cast of Glee and was released in 2011 every bit a single and alongside the total-length album Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album Volume 2. The song was featured in the flavour three Christmas episode, "Extraordinary Merry Christmas".[186]

Charts [edit]

Band Help Liverpool version [edit]

In December 2020, a group of musicians from Liverpool recorded a version of "Practice They Know It's Christmas" under the name Band Aid Liverpool as a charity record in support of Shelter. Retitled "Practice They Know It'south Christmas (Feed the Globe)" with lyrics referring to places on Merseyside, the project was given the become-ahead by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, with Ring Aid Liverpool releasing their cover version on x December 2020.[190]

Keith Lemon and Friends version [edit]

In December 2020, comedian Leigh Francis recorded a version of the song in honour of belatedly TV presenter Caroline Flack, with gain raising coin for the Trussell Trust, Crisis, UNICEF, Shelter and Samaritans. His version, recorded in grapheme every bit Keith Lemon and the Bear from Bo' Selecta!, featured Emma Bunton, Peter Andre and Ronan Keating (with Keating besides turning up on a version of LadBaby's "Don't Stop Me Eatin'", some other 2020 Christmas number 1 contender raising money for the Trussell Trust).[191]

See likewise [edit]

  • "Starvation/Tam Tam Pour 50'Ethiopie", a 1985 charity single featuring British and African artists
  • "Tears Are Not Enough", a 1985 clemency unmarried recorded by Northern Lights, a supergroup of Canadian artists

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