Band Aid - "Do They Know It's Christmas" original documentary

Back in 1984, a bollocks load of UK pop stars got together at the urging of Irish band Boomtown Rats' leader Bob Geldof to record a charity song to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. The gang of pop stars was dubbed Band Aid and the song was "Do They Know It's Christmas?", which eventually earned over 8 million pounds sterling for famine relief and helped re-ignite charity work by pop stars, leading to the even larger LiveAid in summer 1985.

This original 29-minute documentary in three parts below documents the day and night that the cream of UK pop stars and musicians came together in one vision to help others in need.

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And for extra credit, here's a more recent clip on a few of the singers involved with the line "And tonight thank God it's them, instead of you..."