“Bono took me aside and asked if I was sure I wanted him to sing this line”: Bob Geldof remembers what the U2 singer said to him before he recorded his vocals on Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas?

Whatever your thoughts on it - and Ed Sheeran’s have changed, it turns out - Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas? represents a key moment in pop history.

Released in 1984 to raise money for the famine in Ethiopia, It birthed the concept of the star-studded charity single and featured some of the biggest music stars of the time.