FireAid, featuring Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, Sting, Red Hot Chili Peppers and others in a fundraiser for Los Angeles-area ...

Just For One Day, running Jan. 26 to March 15 at CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre, retells the story of the Live Aid benefit concerts ...

FireAid, featuring Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, Sting, Red Hot Chili Peppers and others in a fundraiser for Los Angeles-area ...

British rockers Bob Geldof and Midge Ure expanded their Band Aid charity single “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” into daylong concerts in London and Philadelphia, starring dozens of music’s ...

Midge Ure on playing the 2025 Cruel Fest Line ... such notable bands as Visage and Thin Lizzy. He helped form Band Aid where he produced and co-wrote the smash charity single 'Do ...

beginning with the 1984 entourage of primarily British and Irish singers known as Band Aid, recording “Do They Know It’s Christmas?,” co-written by Geldof and Midge Ure of Ultravox.

A devastating famine in Ethiopia inspired Geldof to launch Band Aid in 1984, writing Do They Know It's Christmas? alongside Ultravox frontman Midge Ure and then organise the fundraising Live Aid ...

Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas? The song was inspired by the BBC’s coverage of the 1984 famine in Ethiopia. Michael Burke’s reporting so moved Boomtown Rats singer Bob Geldof that he contacted ...

With the exception of Geldof and his Band Aid co-writer Midge Ure, it omits pop stars as characters. It’s a choice that allows it to play freer with the music and not be bogged down by naff ...