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Latest version of Do They Know It’s Christmas fundraiser reignites debate about ‘problematic’ lyrics and imagery

“I was able to say, this is not soggy liberalism; this is coded anger,” Geldof recalls

In November 1984, BBC journalist Michael Buerk presented a series of dispatches from the small town of Korem in northern Ethiopia. He described the scenes he encountered as a famine of “biblical proportions” and that aid workers in the region had told him it was “the closest thing to hell…

But how effective will it be as a fundraiser?

Band Aid is back with the '2024 Ultimate Mix' to mark 40 years of the 'song that changed the world'.

Organiser Sir Bob Geldof said the song serves as a rebuke to the Eighties notion that ‘greed is good’

Fortieth-anniversary edition is spliced together by Trevor Horn from previous versions of the song, including snippets of George Michael, Ed Sheeran and more

Pixie Geldof kept her gorgeous rainbow wedding dress "hanging in [her] sitting room for like a year and a half" because she loved it so much.

Unseen footage from the very first Band Aid recording session for 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' will air in a new BBC documentary about the 1984 charity single.