The quality control on charity singles is often hit or miss but what can be relied upon with most recording sessions for that sort of thing is the utter hilarity they throw up in putting disparate, they’d-never-usually-cross-paths artists in the same place. Band Aid 20, which itself turned 20 last month, offered up more insane crossovers than most, a tangling of A-list pop stars, Z-list pop stars, reality show winners, all-time legends, furrow-browed art-rockers, rappers, indie heroes and Danel Bedingfield.
The whole thing was overseen by illustrious producer Nigel Godrich, the man behind the mixing desk for OK Computer and every Radiohead album after, and in 2009 he told The Guardian how it all came about.
