20
December
2020
Do They Know It’s Christmas? [Sakgra Mashup]
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Do They Know It’s Christmas? [Sakgra Mashup] was released on 20 December 2020.
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Do They Know It's Christmas?
Do They Know It’s Christmas? is a song written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in reaction to television reports of the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia.
It was first recorded by Band Aid, a supergroup put together by Geldof and Ure and consisting mainly of the biggest British and Irish musical acts at the time, and released in the UK on 3rd December 1984.
A second version of Do They Know It’s Christmas? was recorded under the name of Band Aid II in 1989, overseen by the most successful British production team of the late 1980s, Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW).
Geldof had telephoned Pete Waterman to ask him to produce a new version of the song to aid the ongoing situation in Ethiopia, and it featured several artists who had big hits in 1989, many having already been produced by SAW. It was released in the UK on 11th December 1989.
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