Band Aid is back for Christmas 2024, but not everybody is happy about it. Ed Sheeran has denounced the 40th anniversary remix of Do They Know It’s Christmas? for using his vocals without his “permission”. Will supergroup founder Bob Geldof respond to a fellow superstar distancing himself from the project?
Sheeran recorded vocals for Band Aid 30 back in 2014, alongside One Direction, Sam Smith, Rita Ora and Ellie Goulding. But he says that, had he been approached about this year’s remix, he would have “respectfully declined” to be part of the campaign again.
