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"Do They Know It'due south Christmas?"
Do They Know It's Christmas single cover - 1984.jpg

Cover artwork by Peter Blake
Single by Band Aid
B-side
  • "Feed the Earth" (1984)
  • "1 Year On (Feed the World)" (1985)
Released 3 December 1984
Recorded 24-25 Nov 1984
Studio Sarm Westward Studios, London
Genre Christmas music
Length
  • 3:55 (7" version)
  • vi:20 (12" version)
Label
  • Phonogram (UK)
  • Columbia (US)
Songwriter(southward)
  • Bob Geldof
  • Midge Ure
Producer(s)
  • Midge Ure
  • Trevor Horn (12" and 1985 reissue)

"Do They Know It's Christmas?" is a vocal written in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in reaction to television set reports of the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia. It was beginning recorded in a single day at Sarm Westward Studios in Notting Hill, London on 25 November 1984 by Band Aid, a supergroup put together by Geldof and Ure and consisting mainly of some of the nigh popular British and Irish musical acts at the time.[i] The single was released in the United Kingdom on 3 Dec 1984 and aided past considerable publicity it entered the United kingdom Singles Chart at number 1 and stayed at that place for 5 weeks, becoming the Christmas number one of 1984.[two] It became the fastest selling unmarried in United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland chart history, selling a million copies in the first week and passing three million sales on the terminal twenty-four hours of 1984,[3] on the way to displacing Wings's "Mull of Kintyre" as the biggest-selling single of all time in the UK.[four] It held this title until 1997 when it was overtaken by Elton John'southward "Candle in the Wind 1997", released in tribute to Princess Diana following her death.[5] The original version of "Practice They Know It'southward Christmas?" has sold three.8 million copies in the UK.[6] In a UK poll in December 2012, information technology was voted sixth on the ITV tv special The Nation'due south Favourite Christmas Song.[seven]

The song was also a major success effectually the world, reaching number one in thirteen other countries outside the UK. In the US, the single fell short of the top x in the Billboard Hot 100 due to a lack of airplay, but it had sold an estimated 2.5 one thousand thousand copies in the US by January 1985.[8] [9] Worldwide the single had sold eleven.7 meg copies by 1989.[10] Geldof'south cautious promise was that the unmarried would raise £70,000 for Ethiopia, but "Do They Know It'due south Christmas?" raised £8 million within twelve months of release.[xi] The single's worldwide success in raising awareness and financial relief for the victims of the Ethiopian famine led the recording of several other charity singles in the United kingdom and in other countries, such as "We Are the Earth" past USA for Africa. The song also led to various spin-off clemency events, such as Comic Relief, and the Live Aid concert which would accept place seven months later on in July 1985.

"Do They Know It's Christmas?" has been re-recorded 3 times: in 1989, 2004 and 2014. All the re-recordings were also charity records; the 1989 and 2004 versions as well provided money for dearth relief, while the 2014 version was used to raise funds for the Ebola crunch in West Africa. All 3 of these versions likewise reached number 1 in the UK, with the 1989 and 2004 versions also becoming the Christmas number ones for their respective years. The 2004 version of the vocal was also a UK million seller, with 1.eight meg copies sold.[vi]

Groundwork [edit]

The vocal was inspired past a series of reports that Michael Buerk made for BBC boob tube news programmes in 1984, which highlighted the famine in Ethiopia that was taking place at the time.[12] The BBC News crew were the first to document the famine, with Buerk's report on 23 October describing it as "a biblical famine in the 20th century" and "the closest thing to hell on Earth".[13] The report featured nurse Claire Bertschinger who had to cull which child was well enough to gain admission to the limited amount of food at the feeding station and who were also sick to be saved.[fourteen] The reports shocked the Great britain, motivating the British people to inundate relief agencies, such as Save the Children, with donations, and also to bring the world's attention to the crisis in Federal democratic republic of ethiopia.[15] [16] The Boomtown Rats singer Bob Geldof and his then partner, television presenter Paula Yates, watched the written report circulate on 23 October and were also deeply affected by information technology.[16] On the nurse Bertschinger, Geldof stated "In her was vested the power of life and death. She had go godlike, and that is unbearable for anyone."[14]

On ii Nov Yates travelled from the couple's home in London to the Tyne Tees studio in Newcastle upon Tyne where she was presenting the weekly live music show The Tube. Amongst the acts performing on that week's program were Ultravox, promoting their greatest hits anthology The Drove. Ultravox's front man Midge Ure was chatting to Yates in the dressing room after the show when Geldof called her. On discovering that she was with Ure, an old friend of Geldof's (they had previously worked together for charity when they appeared at the 1981 benefit show The Clandestine Policeman's Ball in London), Geldof asked to speak to Ure and told him that he wanted to do something to alleviate the suffering in Federal democratic republic of ethiopia. Ure immediately agreed to help and the pair arranged to see and discuss ideas over tiffin the following Monday, 5 November, chop-chop coming to the conclusion that the best option would be to brand a charity record.[16]

Following their meeting, Geldof immediately set well-nigh recruiting other well known musicians to participate on the record:

I then rang Sting and he said, yes, count me in, and and so [Simon] Le Bon, he but immediately said tell me the engagement and we'll clear the diary. The same solar day I was passing by this antique store and who is standing in at that place but Gary Kemp, just about to go off on tour to Japan. He said he was mad for it as well and to wait 10 days till they [Spandau Ballet] got dorsum in the country... suddenly it hitting me. I thought, 'Christ, we accept got the real top boys here', all the big names in pop are all of a sudden gear up and willing to practise this... I knew then that we were off, and I only decided to go for all the rest of the faces and started to ring everyone up, asking them to do it.[17]

Further phone calls from Geldof also secured promises of everybody involved in the record'southward making to provide their services free of accuse, including virtually of the UK music magazines, which donated advertising infinite in their publications to promote the single, Geldof'southward record label Phonogram who released the single, their parent company PolyGram who distributed it, and the artist Peter Blake who created the unmarried'south sleeve.[xviii]

Composition [edit]

Bob Geldof (left) and Midge Ure (right) co-wrote the song. Ure would besides serve as the song'due south producer.

Geldof and Ure's biggest problem was to exist able to come upwardly with a song that could exist recorded and released in time for Christmas. They both realised that they would accept to write one themselves and not record a encompass version; otherwise, they would have to pay royalties which would have to exist subtracted from the amount raised for clemency. On the Monday afternoon Ure came up with the outline of what he felt sounded a Christmas-like melody on a portable keyboard, which he recorded onto a tape and sent to Geldof, who sarcastically told him that the tune sounded similar the theme to Z-Cars.[19] Geldof came to Ure's house the adjacent day and together they worked on the tune with Geldof on his audio-visual guitar. Geldof added lyrics based on a vocal he had originally written for the Boomtown Rats, as he afterwards recalled:

It was lucky in a way, because I had already written this song, which I had provisionally chosen 'It's My Earth', and I knew it would be suitable if I but changed the words a bit and called it 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' Midge, reliable as e'er, sent down this melody which is the sort of Christmassy scrap at the end and we married the two together.[17]

Ure recorded Geldof and his guitar and used the recording to develop Geldof's ideas later back in his home studio, adding his own melody onto the end as a chorus. He later stated that he had been unable to improve on Geldof's lyrics and left nigh of them as they were, with the exception of the line "And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time" – the original lyric substituted "Africa" with "Ethiopia" but Ure decided that this did non scan.[19]

Geldof's original thought had been to ask Trevor Horn to produce the song. At the time Horn was an in-demand producer, having produced the three number one singles in 1984 for Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Although Horn was receptive to the idea, he told Geldof that he would need at least 6 weeks to be able to produce the song, which made information technology impossible for it to be set by Christmas. He did, however, offer the use of Sarm West Studios in Notting Colina in w London (owned by Horn and his married woman Jill Sinclair) free of charge for twenty-four hours on Dominicus 25 November. Horn would later remix and co-produce the 12" version of the single, besides as remixing the single for its 1985 re-release. In Horn's absence Ure was assigned the task of producer and he spent several days in his domicile studio with his engineer Rik Walton to create the song's backing track, programming the keyboards and pulsate machines and using a sample of the drums from the title track of Tears for Fears album The Hurting for the song'south intro. John Taylor of Duran Duran and Paul Weller visited Ure's studio the day before the recording at Sarm Westward in order to add bass guitar and lead guitar respectively, although Ure and Weller later agreed that the lead guitar did not fit the predominantly synthesizer-based song and subsequently decided non to use Weller's contribution. Ure sang the original guide vocal, although Simon Le Bon and Sting both came to Ure's studio to add the vocals for their lines.[nineteen]

Recording [edit]

While Ure was occupied creating the song's bankroll track in the studio, Geldof was decorated contacting diverse British and Irish artists to ask them to appear for the recording session. His plan was to have the biggest names in British and Irish music at the time appear on the tape, and few declined: Geldof later revealed just three people had turned him downwardly, but refused to disclose who.[17] Those he asked only who were unable to announced instead sent recorded messages of support that appeared on the single's B-side, including David Bowie and Paul McCartney.[20] Another UK deed who had been successful in 1984, the Thompson Twins, were unable to appear on the Band Aid record as they were out of the country and were made enlightened of the recording too late to render and be involved in it, simply they donated part of the proceeds of their and then current unmarried "Lay Your Easily on Me" to the Action for Ethiopia charity.[18] [21]

Geldof and Ure arrived at Sarm West Studios at around 8am on Sunday 25 November with the media in attendance outside. With recording scheduled to begin at 10:30am the artists began arriving. Geldof had arranged for the UK paper The Daily Mirror to have exclusive access inside the studio, and ensured that a 'team photograph' was taken past the newspaper's photographer Brian Aris before any recording got under style, knowing that it would be gear up in time to appear in the post-obit solar day's edition of the paper and help publicise the record.[11] The photograph likewise appeared on the dorsum cover of the single.

Ure played the backing rail and guide vocals to the artists and then decided, as a way of getting all involved straightaway, to tape the climax first. The artists were put in a huge group and sang the 'Feed the world, let them know it's Christmas fourth dimension' refrain over and over once more until it was complete. Having recorded the group, Ure chose Tony Hadley of Spandau Ballet to be the first vocalist into the studio to record his solo part. Hadley admitted that this had been nerve-wracking, knowing that all his contemporaries were watching him.[11] Ane past one the other assigned singers then did likewise, with Ure taping their efforts and so making notes on which segments would be cutting into the final recording. Le Bon, despite having already recorded his role at Ure's house, re-recorded it so he could exist part of the moment. Sting also recorded his words over again, this time to provide harmony vocals. Despite being lead singers themselves, both Geldof and Ure had already decided that they would non sing any solo lines, although both took part in the 'feed the world' finale. Ure subsequently stated in his autobiography that he was constantly contesting with Geldof, and telling him to leave when he would come into the production booth and wrongly tell the creative person behind the microphone what to sing.[19]

During the recording session, Geldof (right) persuaded a reluctant Bono (left) to sing the line "Well, this evening give thanks God it's them, instead of you".[22]

Phil Collins arrived with his entire drum kit to record a live pulsate track on superlative of the already programmed drum motorcar. He gear up upward the kit and and so waited patiently until early evening until after all the vocals had been recorded. Ure was content with the first have that Collins performed, just the perfectionist Collins was unhappy with it and asked for a second accept to be recorded, which he was satisfied with.[xix]

Although the majority of the artists who took role were the U.k. or Ireland's biggest musical stars at the time, there were a few unusual participants. Members of the U.s. group Kool & the Gang appeared on the record because they were signed to the same record label as the Boomtown Rats, and just happened to exist visiting Phonogram'south London offices on the day that Geldof walked in to pitch his thought for the charity unmarried to the label.[xix] Singer Marilyn, who had scored a couple of chart hits a year earlier but whose star had faded throughout 1984, saw the opportunity to reclaim the spotlight and turned upwards to the recording despite not being invited to accept part, a fact overlooked by Geldof and Ure who felt any publicity was good publicity and the more stars they could get to appear on the record, the better. Actor Nigel Planer, who had reached number ii earlier in the year with a embrace version of "Hole in My Shoe" in the guise of his grapheme Neil from the tv set comedy serial The Young Ones, also showed upwards uninvited and in character as Neil to play upwards to the cameras, and later on being tolerated for a while was sent abroad past Ure.[11]

Geldof also asked Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt, the two frontmen of rock band Status Quo, to take function, knowing that although the group were from an entirely different musical era and background, their consistent nautical chart success and fame would bring a certain amount of credibility to the project from the rock fraternity and ensure that the group's loyal post-obit of fans (the "Quo Ground forces") would buy the record in large numbers.[19] Ure's original thought was for Rossi and Parfitt to sing the "here'south to yous" harmonies in the vocal's bridge, but he had to shelve the thought because Parfitt could not hit the high notes. This section was eventually taken on by Weller, Sting and Glenn Gregory. Rossi privately told Ure after that in the studio he sang near of Status Quo's vocal parts and that Parfitt but normally sang onstage, and that Ure should have kept Parfitt away from the microphone. Parfitt admitted in a 2004 documentary that he and Rossi had been extremely hungover from partying the night before, and were in no fit state to effort to record their vocals.[xi] However, co-ordinate to the journalist Robin Eggar, who at the time was music correspondent for The Daily Mirror and who was the simply journalist present throughout the recording of the song, the pair were able to contribute in other means: "Once Condition Quo produced their bag of cocaine and the alcohol started to flow – I brought half dozen bottles of wine from my flat, which disappeared in a minute – it became a party."[23]

Geldof had been keen to include Culture Club'south Boy George on the single, at the fourth dimension one of the biggest music stars in the world, and had called him in New York the mean solar day before the recording to insist that George turn up. By midday, with George nevertheless absent, an irate Geldof telephoned him again demanding to know where he was. Having just gone to bed a few hours before, a sleepy George was woken upwards past Geldof insisting that he go onto a Concorde transatlantic flight later that morning time. Notwithstanding, George went back to sleep following the telephone telephone call, and only made it onto the terminal Concorde flight of the twenty-four hour period later that afternoon. George somewhen arrived at Sarm West at half dozenpm and went immediately into the recording booth to evangelize his lines, the last solo artist of the twenty-four hour period.[11] Once George's contribution had been recorded, Ure began working on the mix every bit the participants began to political party in the studio. A B-side, titled "Feed the Earth", was likewise produced by Trevor Horn in his own studio, using the aforementioned instrumental rail as the A-side and featuring messages from artists who had been at the recording, and likewise from those who had been unable to attend, including David Bowie, Paul McCartney, the members of Big Country and Holly Johnson from Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Before departing the Sarm Studio, Geldof recorded a statement, which featured every bit the last bulletin on "Feed the Earth". Geldof'southward spoken-discussion statement said:

This record was recorded on the 25th of November 1984. It'south now eight AM in the morning of the 26th. We've been here 24 hours and I call up information technology's time nosotros went home. Then from me, Bob Geldof, and Midge, we'd say, 'Skilful morning to you lot all, and a million cheers to everyone on the record. Accept a lovely Christmas.'[24]

Mode and content [edit]

The song comprises ii parts: a poesy and bridge which allow individual singers to perform unlike lines; and a chorus in the form of two repeated phrases by ensemble. The showtime line of the recording is sung by Paul Young on the 1984 version, Kylie Minogue on the 1989 version, Chris Martin of Coldplay on the 2004 version, and Ane Management on the 2014 version. The opening line was sung past David Bowie at the Live Aid concert in 1985.[25]

Release and promotion [edit]

The following forenoon Geldof appeared on Mike Read'due south BBC Radio one Breakfast Show to promote the record and promised that every penny would become to the cause. Well-nigh record retailers agreed to sell the tape at its toll price of £1.35 including VAT:[18] nonetheless, some refused, citing price pressures. Geldof was also incensed that the British Authorities refused to waive the VAT on the sales of the single.[26] He made the headlines by publicly continuing upward to Prime number Minister Margaret Thatcher. In the terminate the government relented and donated an amount to the charity equal to the corporeality of tax they had collected on the single.[27]

Radio 1 began to play the vocal every hour – commonly an A-list single got seven or viii plays per day. The number one single at the time of its release was "I Should Have Known Better" by Jim Diamond, and Diamond was quoted as saying, "I'm delighted to be at number ane, but next week I don't want people to buy my tape; I desire them to buy Ring Aid instead".[28]

The song had advance orders of 250,000 within a week of its recording,[29] and orders from record dealers had topped one million past 8 December. In order to run across demand, Phonogram had all v of their European factories put to work pressing the single.[26]

"Practice They Know It's Christmas?" was released on Monday 3 December 1984.[two] It received farther publicity from a launch political party on vii December at the Royal Albert Hall during the charity outcome "Dinner at Albert'southward", an evening of music to heighten coin for Salvage the Children and the Ethiopia Famine Relief Fund.[30] The unmarried entered the UK Singles Chart the following week at number 1, outselling all the other records in the nautical chart put together, with the 7" single alone selling 200,000 copies in the get-go two days of release.[26]

Released in the US on ten Dec 1984 on Columbia Records,[31] "Practise They Know It'due south Christmas?" sold i.9 million copies in its first eleven days on release[3] but did not accomplish number ane at that place, due to the more complex nature of the chart organisation, which counted airplay also as sales. Despite outselling the official number one by four to one, it did not make the top ten due to a lack of airplay, ultimately peaking at number thirteen on the Billboard Hot 100.[8]

Due to the fourth dimension constraints of releasing the single as quickly as possible, the promotional video for the song simply featured footage from the recording session. David Bowie, who had been Geldof'southward original choice to sing the vocal's opening line but who had been unable to attend the recording, flew into England from Switzerland to record a short introduction for the video to be played on the BBC'due south flagship television music show Top of the Pops. Even so, Geldof was unhappy when he discovered that the testify's regulations meant that the vocal and its video could not be played until it had actually charted. Undeterred, he contacted BBC1 controller Michael Grade directly and persuaded Grade to order that every programme preceding that week's episode of Top of the Pops should start 5 minutes early to brand space to circulate the vocal'southward video (consummate with Bowie's introduction) just before the show.[28]

Each week of its stay at number one, the video was shown on Top of the Pops. However, for the Christmas Day special edition of the program, about of the artists on the record appeared in the studio to mime to the song as information technology was relayed through the speaker organization. The two near notable absentees were George Michael and Bono: during Michael's line the cameras focused on the studio audition, while Paul Weller mimed Bono's line to the camera.[32]

The charity received a further boost during Band Aid'southward five calendar week tenure at the pinnacle of the UK charts with Wham! at number two with their double A-side "Last Christmas"/"Everything She Wants". Wham! vocaliser George Michael had appeared on the Band Help unmarried and he and fellow band member Andrew Ridgeley donated all the royalties from their single to the Band Assistance Trust.[33] As of 2021, "Last Christmas" has sold almost two million copies, and until information technology reached number 1 in January 2021 it held the record for the biggest-selling single never to reach number ane in the UK.[34] [35]

A thirty-minute video titled 'Practice They Know It's Christmas?' – The Story of the Official Band Aid Video was released in the UK on 15 December 1984 and in the U.s.a. on eighteen December 1984 on VHS and Betamax formats.[31] The video featured documentary footage shot at the recording session and interviews with Geldof and Ure, as well as the completed promotional video.[26] At the 1986 Grammy Awards the song'south video was nominated for the Best Music Video, Short Form honor, eventually losing out to its Usa counterpart song "We Are the World".[36]

Reception and criticism [edit]

The reception in Dec 1984 to the original single from the U.k. music press was mixed. Under a caption of "TURKEY" (a double meaning referring both to the traditional Christmas dinner and an creative failure), the biggest selling music paper NME dismissed the song with the single line, "Millions of Dead Stars write and perform rotten record for the right reasons".[37] The other two major music papers looked upon the record more favourably, recognising that while musically the song was flawed, its intentions were admirable. Sounds said, "It's far from brilliant (if not quite the Bland Aid some accept predicted) but y'all tin can take fun playing Spot the Star on the vocals, and information technology deserves to sell past the truckload".[38] Melody Maker stated, "Inevitably, later on such massive publicity, the record itself is something of an anti-climax, even though Geldof's sense of universal melodrama is perfectly suited to this kind of epic musical manifesto. Midge Ure'due south large-screen production and the emotional vocal deliveries of the diverse celebrities matches the demonstrative sweep of Geldof's lyric, which veers occasionally toward an uncomfortably generalised sentimentality which threatens to plow righteous pleading into pompous indignation. On the other paw, I'm sure it'due south impossible to write flippantly nigh something equally fundamentally dreadful as the Ethiopia dearth."[39]

In contemporary times, the vocal has received criticism for what has been described as a colonial western-axial viewpoint and condescending stereotypical descriptions of Africa, notably the phrase sung by Bono: Well this evening thank God it's them instead of you.[40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] For the 2014 version, several lyrics that were previously criticised were rewritten, and the vocal was changed to focus on Ebola rather than the original version's famine.[46] [47] The new lyrics have besides been criticised as promoting stereotypes and condescension.[48] [49] [50] [51] [52] However, criticism from Africans regarding the song remained: in 2014, African activists and Twitter users complained that the song disregarded the multifariousness of the continent of Africa and ultimately did more harm than expert for the people.[53] Musician Fuse ODG turned down a asking to sing on the 2014 version, stating that the lyrics of the song do non reflect what Africa truly is. He cited lyrics such equally "There is no peace and joy in westward (sic) Africa this Christmas"; maxim he goes to Ghana yearly for the sole purpose of peace and joy, and then singing such lyrics would be a blatant lie.[54] [55] [56] [57]

Geldof and Ure themselves later recognised the musical limitations of "Do They Know It's Christmas?": in his typically blunt manner, Geldof told Australia'south Daily Telegraph in 2010, "I am responsible for 2 of the worst songs in history. The other one is 'We Are the World'."[58] Ure'due south cess in his autobiography was that "it is a song that has nothing to do with music. It was all nearly generating money... The vocal didn't thing: the song was secondary, almost irrelevant."[19]

In 2005, a parody version entitled "Exercise They Know It'due south Hallowe'en?" was created to poke fun at the lyrics in the original version.[59]

1985 reissue [edit]

"Do They Know It's Christmas?" was reissued the following year on 29 November 1985,[60] reaching number three in the Great britain Singles Chart the week following Christmas. The 1985 single was remixed by Trevor Horn, the intended producer of the original version, and it included an updated B-side entitled "One Year On (Feed the Earth)", beginning and ending with a recording of a phone message from Geldof and in betwixt featuring Ure reciting a list of what had been bought with the money raised during the previous 12 months.[60]

Personnel [edit]

(adjusted from credits on dorsum cover of the tape sleeve)[61] [a]

Notes

  1. ^ Annie Lennox's name also appears on the sleeve credits as a recorded message from her was due to exist included on the B-side, but the message did not make it in fourth dimension before the record was pressed.
  2. ^ Midge Ure stated in his autobiography that most of the bass line was created and played on a synthesizer (subsequently revealed to be the OSCar[62]), just that John Taylor had added some bass guitar to the song in Ure's home studio on 24 November 1984.

Charts [edit]

Certifications and sales [edit]

Band Aid II [edit]

"Do They Know It's Christmas?"
Do They Know It's Christmas single cover - 1989.jpg
Single by Band Aid Two
B-side "Do They Know Information technology's Christmas?" (Instrumental)
Released 11 December 1989
Recorded 2–3 December 1989 at The Hit Manufactory, London
Genre Christmas music
Length iv:25
Label
  • PWL
  • Polydor
Songwriter(southward)
  • Bob Geldof
  • Midge Ure
Producer(s) Stock Aitken Waterman

A second version of "Do They Know It'southward Christmas?" was recorded under the name of Band Help II in 1989, overseen by the virtually successful British production team of the late 1980s, Stock Aitken Waterman. Geldof had telephoned Pete Waterman to ask him to produce a new version of the song to help the ongoing situation in Federal democratic republic of ethiopia, and within 24 hours the recording session had been arranged at Stock Aitken Waterman'due south studios on London's South Depository financial institution. The recording took place over the weekend of 2 and 3 December,[106] and featured several artists who had already been produced past SAW, including Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Bananarama, Sonia, and Cliff Richard, as well as other artists who had big hits in 1989, such equally Lisa Stansfield, Jimmy Somerville, Wet Wet Wet and Bros. Bananarama'south Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward became the merely artists to announced on both the 1984 and 1989 versions of the record. Siobhan Fahey, who had been part of Bananarama's line-upwards at the time the beginning recording of the song was released, had left the group in 1988.

The lyrics were rearranged for a more traditional 'verse and chorus' construction, with the opening verse existence split in ii with a short echo of the ending chorus existence played at the cease of both, followed by the "here's to you" department and a terminal lengthened version of the closing chorus (with commentary past Michael Buerk played over the outro in the music video).

Released on 11 December 1989,[106] the Band Help II version spent 3 weeks at number one in the United kingdom, condign the Christmas number one single and the last number i unmarried of the 1980s, and ended the year equally the ninth biggest selling single of 1989.[107]

Personnel [edit]

(adapted from credits on back cover of the tape sleeve)[108]

  • Bananarama
  • Big Fun
  • Bros
  • Cathy Dennis
  • D Mob
  • Jason Donovan
  • Kevin Godley
  • Glen Goldsmith
  • Kylie Minogue
  • The Pasadenas
  • Chris Rea
  • Cliff Richard
  • Jimmy Somerville
  • Sonia
  • Lisa Stansfield
  • Technotronic (incorrectly listed equally "Technotronics" on the record sleeve)
  • Wet Wet Wet

Musicians

  • Matt Aitken – keyboards, guitar
  • Luke Goss – drums
  • Chris Rea – guitar
  • Mike Stock – keyboards

The sleeve also credits "A Linn" with playing drums on the record, a joking reference to the programmed Linn pulsate machine.

Charts and certifications [edit]

Band Aid twenty [edit]

"Practise They Know It'due south Christmas?"
Do They Know It's Christmas single cover - 2004.jpg
Single past Band Aid 20
B-side
  • "Exercise They Know Information technology's Christmas?" (original Ring Aid version)
  • "Practice They Know It's Christmas?" (performed at Live Aid, 1985)
Released 29 Nov 2004 (2004-11-29) [118]
Recorded 12–fourteen November
Studio
  • Mayfair (Primrose Hill)
  • AIR (Hampstead, London)
Genre Christmas music
Length 5:07
Label Mercury
Songwriter(southward)
  • Bob Geldof
  • Midge Ure
Producer(s) Nigel Godrich
Music video
Band Aid twenty "Exercise They Know It's Christmas?" at MTV UK

Ring Assistance xx recorded a tertiary version of the song in Nov 2004 for the twentieth anniversary of the original recording, and again got to number one. The recording and release of the single tied in with the release of the Live Aid concert on DVD for the first time.[119] The idea was prompted by Coldplay'southward Chris Martin, although Geldof and Ure both got quickly involved. Geldof did the publicity and educated the younger artists on the issues (some of whom had non been built-in, or were very young, when the original was recorded) while Ure assisted producer Nigel Godrich and filmed the event for the corresponding documentary.

The gathering of the artists to record the song's chorus took identify at AIR Studios in Hampstead in north London on Sunday 14 November 2004, although the bankroll track and many of the solo lines had been recorded over the previous ii days.[119] [120] Damon Albarn did not take part in the recording but turned upward to serve tea to the participants.[120]

This version of the song featured an extra segment—a rap past Dizzee Rascal in the midst of the "here'southward to you" section. Bono flew in especially from Ireland late on Dominicus evening to sing the aforementioned line as he had done two decades earlier,[121] making him the sixth artist to appear on two versions, in addition to Geldof, Ure, Paul McCartney, Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward (Bananarama).

Personnel [edit]

Charts and certifications [edit]

Band Aid 30 [edit]

"Do They Know Information technology'due south Christmas? (2014)"
Band Aid 30 - Do They Know It's Christmas? (2014).png
Single by Band Aid 30
Released 17 November 2014
Recorded 15 November 2014
Studio Sarm West Studios, London
Genre Christmas music
Length 3:48
Label
  • Virgin EMI
  • Island
Songwriter(s)
  • Bob Geldof
  • Midge Ure
Producer(s) Paul Epworth

At a press briefing on ten November 2014, Geldof and Ure announced that some other grouping of artists would come up together to re-record the song, this time under the banner of Ring Aid 30 and in aid of the Ebola crunch. The 2014 version was recorded on Sat 15 November 2014 and released on the post-obit Monday, 17 November.[150]

Groundwork [edit]

Tracey Emin provided the artwork and Paul Epworth produced the track. Vocal contributions came from artists including Ed Sheeran, One Management, Paloma Faith, Ellie Goulding, Seal, Sam Smith, Sinéad O'Connor, Rita Ora, Emeli Sandé, Guardhouse and Olly Murs. Returning guest musicians from previous versions of the vocal included Chris Martin (who recorded the opening lines of the 2004 version) and Bono (who sang the tenth line in both the 1984 and 2004 versions).[151] Unlike the previous versions, where lyrics were nigh identical to the original, the lyrics were altered to address the then-ongoing outbreak. The lyric changes include:

  • "Where the simply water flowing is the bitter sting of tears" is replaced with "Where a kiss of dearest can impale you lot and in that location's death in every tear"
  • "Well this evening thank God it'south them instead of you" is replaced with "Well tonight we're reaching out and touching you"
  • "Well, there won't exist snow in Africa this Christmas time" is replaced with "Bring peace and joy this Christmas to Due west Africa".
  • "The greatest gift they'll get this year is life" is replaced with "A song of hope where there's no hope tonight".
  • "Where nothing e'er grows, no rain or rivers flow" is replaced with "Why is comfort to be feared? Why is to bear on to exist scared?".
  • "Underneath that burning lord's day" is replaced with "And all there is to come".
  • "Exercise they know..." is rephrased as "How tin can they know...".
  • During the coda, "Feed the world" alternates with "Heal the earth".

Personnel [edit]

[152]

German version [edit]

A High german-linguistic communication version of "Practice They Know It'south Christmas?" was released on 21 Nov 2014. It was produced past Vincent Sorg and Tobias Kuhn and features vocals from artists including 2raumwohnung, Andreas Bourani, Die Toten Hosen, Jan Delay, Joy Denalane, Max Raabe, Milky Chance, Peter Maffay, Silbermond, Thees Uhlmann, and Wolfgang Niedecken.[153]

Track listing [edit]

Digital download
No. Title Length
1. "Practice They Know It's Christmas? (2014)" 3:48
German digital download – German version
No. Title Length
1. "Do They Know It'south Christmas? (2014)" (Deutsche version) three:55
German language CD single
No. Title Length
ane. "Exercise They Know It's Christmas? (2014)" (Deutsche version) three:56
2. "Practice They Know Information technology's Christmas? (2014)" iii:50
German CD maxi-single
No. Title Length
1. "Practise They Know It'due south Christmas? (2014)" (Deutsche version) 3:56
2. "Do They Know It's Christmas? (2014)" iii:fifty
3. "Practice They Know It's Christmas? (2004 version)" (Band Aid 20) v:06
iv. "Exercise They Know Information technology'southward Christmas? (1989 version)" (Ring Aid Ii) 4:22
v. "Do They Know Information technology's Christmas? (1984 version)" (Ring Assist) iii:52

Charts and certifications [edit]

Release history [edit]

Glee Bandage version [edit]

"Do They Know It'due south Christmas?"
Unmarried by Glee cast
from the album Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album Volume 2
Released xv November 2011
Recorded 2011
Genre Popular, Christmas music
Length 3:25
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s)
  • Bob Geldof
  • Midge Ure

The song was covered by the cast of Glee and was released in 2011 equally a single and alongside the full-length anthology Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album Volume 2. The song was featured in the season iii Christmas episode, "Extraordinary Merry Christmas".[186]

Charts [edit]

Band Aid Liverpool version [edit]

In December 2020, a group of musicians from Liverpool recorded a version of "Do They Know It's Christmas" under the name Band Help Liverpool every bit a charity record in support of Shelter. Retitled "Do They Know It's Christmas (Feed the Earth)" with lyrics referring to places on Merseyside, the projection was given the go-alee by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, with Ring Aid Liverpool releasing their embrace version on 10 December 2020.[190]

Keith Lemon and Friends version [edit]

In December 2020, comedian Leigh Francis recorded a version of the song in honour of belatedly Telly presenter Caroline Flack, with gain raising money for the Trussell Trust, Crunch, UNICEF, Shelter and Samaritans. His version, recorded in character as Keith Lemon and the Carry from Bo' Selecta!, featured Emma Bunton, Peter Andre and Ronan Keating (with Keating too turning up on a version of LadBaby'due south "Don't Stop Me Eatin'", another 2020 Christmas number one contender raising coin for the Trussell Trust).[191]

Come across also [edit]

  • "Starvation/Tam Tam Pour 50'Ethiopie", a 1985 charity single featuring British and African artists
  • "Tears Are Not Plenty", a 1985 charity unmarried recorded by Northern Lights, a supergroup of Canadian artists

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