Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? (Official Video) [4K]

Band Aid 40, November 25, 2024

On November 25th 1984, ‘the song that changed the world’ was recorded at SARM Studios in West London. This ‘shout that rang around the world’ was written by Bob Geldof of the Boomtown Rats and Midge Ure of Ultravox and sung by a bunch of young English pop stars who were more or less just out of school and had taken over the pop culture of the world. They hadn’t heard the song, or seen the lyrics but they turned up, on their only day off, and sang their hearts out.
They created a song which raised critical funds for the famine stricken in Ethiopia, prompted its brother recording ‘We Are The World’ by USA for Africa, fired the starting gun for Live Aid and Live 8, and culminated 20 years later in forcing the global political process to bend to its focused will at the Gleneagles G8 summit of 2005.

'Do They Know It’s Christmas?' topped the UK charts for five weeks and became one of the fastest-selling singles in British history. And it really did change the world.

Producer: Midge Ure
Video Director: Nigel Dick

The recording features the following artists (in alphabetical order):

Robert "Kool" Bell (Kool & the Gang)
Bono (U2)
Pete Briquette (Boomtown Rats)
Adam Clayton (U2)
Phil Collins (Genesis and Solo Artist)
Chris Cross (Ultravox)
Simon Crowe (Boomtown Rats)
Sara Dallin (Bananarama)
Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama)
Johnny Fingers (Boomtown Rats)
Bob Geldof (Boomtown Rats)
Boy George (Culture Club)
Glenn Gregory (Heaven 17)
Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet)
John Keeble (Spandau Ballet)
Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet)
Martin Kemp (Spandau Ballet)
Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran)
Marilyn
George Michael (Wham!)
Jon Moss (Culture Club)
Steve Norman (Spandau Ballet)
Rick Parfitt (Status Quo)
Nick Rhodes (Duran Duran)
Francis Rossi (Status Quo)
Sting (The Police)
Andy Taylor (Duran Duran)
James "J.T." Taylor (Kool & the Gang)
John Taylor (Duran Duran)
Roger A. Taylor (Duran Duran)
Dennis Thomas (Kool & the Gang)
Midge Ure (Ultravox)
Martyn Ware (Heaven 17)
Jody Watley (Solo Artist)
Paul Weller (The Style Council)
Keren Woodward (Bananarama)
Paul Young (Solo Artist)

Restoration and Grading by Filmfinity Productions
Clayton Baker and Trevor Brown.

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BAND AID - How the Money is Spent

In the financial year to 30 November 2024 Band Aid has awarded grants of £3m across 16 projects to date.
Activities in 2024 include:

Provision of life saving medicines and medical supplies
Access to basic healthcare for rural communities
Strengthening the support of health services in Tigray
Therapeutic food for malnourished children and vulnerable adults
Emergency grain supplies
Drought resistant crops
Income generating activities and vocational training
Construction of basic housing to support old and vulnerable people
Construction of emergency shelters for refugees
Provision of clean water and sanitation training across multiple refugee camps in Ethiopia
Training to prevent gender-based violence in communities
Hygiene and sanitation support for adolescent girls
Construction of schools and libraries, and provision of classroom furniture
Cash distributions for vulnerable households
Rehabilitation of boreholes and wells for schools and communities
School feeding programmes in Tigray to support children returning to education

The estimated number of beneficiaries totals more than 350,000 people.

Money raised from BandAid40 will continue to fund similar activities in Ethiopia and the surrounding countries.

More information can be found at

[donaldzschoche]

I was 41 years old in 1984. This beautiful song rang loudly in my heart and ears. I am 81 years old today and the song still rings loudly in my heart and ears. Merry Christmas all.

[show]

Can someone please invent a time machine so I can go back to the 80s and spend the rest of my life there . Please God

[hayduk]

Unbelievable, 40 years have passed! Just turned 55, this song takes me back to my teenage years - a time of hope, a time of common sense, a time when people could come together and agree.

[mredgeplayz]

To those who are still here when this song was first released, in any part of the world you are in, we are one and we still will be one with this song. Merry Christmas everyone !!

[scottmccaw-zo]

This is will forever be the best version. Nothing will replace it

[TheBrettWilson]

0:05 Bob Geldof (The Boomtown Rats)
0:09 John Taylor (Duran Duran)
0:12 Sting (The Police)
0:14 Paul Young
0:30 Boy George (Culture Club)
0:45 Phil Collins (Genesis)
0:48 George Michael (Wham!)
0:59 Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran)
1:08 Sting and Simon Le Bon
1:13 Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet)
1:18 Sting
1:21 Sting, Bono (U2), Simon Le Bon
1:29 Bono
1:36 Phil Collins
1:39 Paul Weller (The Style Council)
1:41 Sting
1:43 Boy George
1:44 Stuart Bruce (engineer), Midge Ure (Ultravox), Jon Moss (Culture Club)
1:47 Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet), John Taylor
1:49 Simon Le Bon
1:51 Gary Kemp, Paula Yates
1:53 Boy George
1:55 Bono, George Michael, Glenn Gregory (Heaven 17), Paul Young
1:59 Paul Weller
2:02 Gary Kemp, John Taylor
2:04 George Michael, Glenn Gregory, Midge Ure, Bono
2:07 Paul Young
2:10 Boy George
2:12 Marilyn, Glenn Gregory
2:14 Paul Young
2:16 Marilyn, Glenn Gregory
2:18 Paul Young
2:27 Bananarama (L-R: Keren Woodward, Siobhan Fahey, Sara Dallin)
2:28 Kool & the Gang (L-R: Robert “Kool” Bell, James “JT” Taylor, Dennis Thomas)
2:30 Jody Watley (Shalamar)
2:31 Marilyn
2:32 Phil Collins
2:33 Paula Yates & daughter Fifi
2:37 Midge Ure
2:38 Jody Watley
2:39 Simon Le Bon, Bob Geldof
2:41 Bono, Jon Moss, Simon Crowe (Boomtown Rats), Sting, George Michael
2:45 Jon Moss, Bob Geldof, Gary Kemp, John Taylor
2:47 Left: Criss Cross (Ultravox) Right: Francis Rossi (Status Quo)
2:49 Bananarama (L-R: Keren Woodward, Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey)
2:52 Paul Young, Midge Ure, Tony Hadley, Rick Parfitt (Status Quo)
2:53 Francis Rossi (Status Quo)
2:58 Keren Woodward, John Taylor, Glenn Gregory, Jody Watley, Paul Young, Midge Ure
3:01 Phil Collins, Bono, Jon Moss, Sting, George Michael, Keren Woodward
3:06 Simon Le Bon, Bob Geldof, Dennis Thomas, Paul Weller, Phil Collins
3:10 Robert “Kool” Bell
3:12 Tony Hadley
3:14 James “JT” Taylor
3:15 Bono, Jon Moss, Sting, Keren Woodward, Simon Crowe, George Michael, Sara Dallin
3:18 R-L Martyn Ware (Heaven 17), Nick Rhodes, Marilyn, Keren Woodward, Gary Kemp, Sara Dallin,
3:21 Paul Young
3:26 Rick Parfitt
3:28 Marilyn
3:31 Jon Moss
3:33 George Michael
3:35 Nick Rhodes (Duran Duran)
3:37 Andy Taylor (Duran Duran)

[ramongonzalez]

Timeless. They were all so young and good looking. My favorite era for music.🎄

[benjamindiequez]

They all are so young !!! So was I, just turned 60, this was made when I was 21!

[marthabrittain]

Looking back we were so lucky to have such musical talent in the 80s. Great memories

[arinsalhaogullari]

I was 15 years old when this was released. We were the generation that believed we could change the world!

[MustangMike]

Phil Collins can play those drums to perfection. I love this song.

[mikemikey]

I am an African who was living African when this song was made and I can’t appreciate it enough. May God bless all those who contributed to its success…and to all those of them who have departed this life, eternal rest grant them O’Lord! ❤

[johnschoonover]

Who's still around listening and chillin out to this great tune.2024!

[LatterdayLamanite]

I was fifteen years old when this song hit the air waves. Now I'm 55 and revisiting this song as I do every Christmas holiday. This is now a timeless classic. I sure do miss the 80s. Merry Christmas, everyone!

[dwaynne_way]

December 2024 anyone? To think this was released exactly 40 years ago in 1984. One of my FAVOURITE Christmas songs 🎄🎁🎅☃️

[fernandorosales]

Does anybody else cry watching this? Or it was as just me?

[reviewwriter]

The amount of talent in one room...never will we see that again

[emmalyckajacobsson]

A friend of mine was orphaned in that famine and as a baby brought to Sweden in a paperbox to be adopted. That rescue in Ethiopia was with money from this record.

[jbsMUWcreations]

Happy 40th Anniversary to this song!!!❄️🎄❤️🎉🌏🌨️
(November 30, 1984 - November 30, 2024)

[nickybreed]

22 years old in 1984 and now 62 years old and still listening to the 1984 original