Band aid

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Singles
Do They Know It's Christmas? (Band Aid)
  DE 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 
gold
gold
December 31, 1984 (48 weeks)
  AT 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link January 15, 1985 (36 weeks)
  CH 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link December 23, 1984 (23 weeks)
  UK 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 
silver
silver
December 15, 1984 (80 weeks)
  US 13 
gold
gold
12/22/1984 (9 weeks)
Do They Know It's Christmas? (Band Aid II)
  DE 74 01/08/1990 (1 week)
  CH 24 01/14/1990 (4 weeks)
  UK 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 
platinum
platinum
December 23, 1989 (6 weeks)
Do They Know It's Christmas? (Band Aid 20)
  DE 7th 12/13/2004 (21 weeks)
  AT 15th 12/12/2004 (18 weeks)
  CH 7th 12/12/2004 (8 weeks)
  UK 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum
12/11/2004 (12 weeks)
Do They Know It's Christmas? (Band Aid 30)
  DE 2 11/28/2014 (11 weeks)
  AT 5 11/28/2014 (9 weeks)
  CH 5 11/23/2014 (6 weeks)
  UK 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 
gold
gold
11/29/2014 (6 weeks)
  US 63 December 06, 2014 (1 week)
Do They Know It's Christmas? (Band Aid 30 - German version)
  DE 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 05/12/2014 (5 weeks)
  AT 10 05/12/2014 (3 weeks)
  CH 21st 11/30/2014 (2 weeks)

Band Aid (actually "music group help", but derived from a sticking plaster of the same name meaning band = bandage / bandage) was a band project by international pop stars that was founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure with the aim of raising money for to gather the famine victims in Ethiopia . The song Do They Know It's Christmas? is now one of the Christmas carol classics that return to the charts in many countries at Christmas time . Three versions were number one Christmas hits in the UK .

Band aid

On November 28, 1984, the single Do They Know It's Christmas? published in the UK . The song reached number 1 in 13 countries, including the Federal Republic of Germany.

After the success of Band Aid, Bob Geldof organized a worldwide benefit concert Live Aid on July 13, 1985 . Participants in the first Band Aid project (according to the order on the album cover ):

The album cover designer, Peter Blake , was also mentioned.

Not on the album cover of the Phonogram single, but in the booklet of The Story of the Official Band Aid Video :

Paula Yates , Geldof's partner at the time and later wife , is also listed there .

Band Aid singles on the Mercury label also list Annie Lennox ( Eurythmics ) and Nigel Planer (from the comedy series The Young Ones ) as contributors.

The example of Band Aid was followed by pop stars in other countries. USA for Africa was founded in the USA in early 1985 . The worldwide success of their single We Are the World also helped alleviate the misery in Africa. In Germany, the Band für Afrika project initiated by Herbert Grönemeyer reached number 3 in the charts with the single Nackt im Wind .

Band Aid II

Five years later, in 1989, after another drought in Ethiopia, a second Band Aid project was formed. Under the name Band Aid II , Do They Know It's Christmas? recorded a second time; this time in the typical sound of the producers Stock Aitken Waterman . This recording also reached number 1 in the British charts, but it flopped in all other countries.

Band Aid II consisted of:
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 and Wet Wet Wet .

Band Aid 20

20 years after Band Aid became Do They Know It's Christmas? Re-recorded in 2004 at the suggestion of music journalist Dominic Mohan (from The Sun ). Again the occasion was a famine in Africa , this time in Darfur in Sudan . The single was produced by Nigel Godrich .

On the first day of sales (November 29, 2004) the song was sold 72,000 times in the UK (first week: 290,000).

The new formation Band Aid 20 consists of the following British and Irish stars: Bono , Keane , Paul McCartney , Sugababes , Skye Edwards ( Morcheeba ), Robbie Williams , Dido , Jamelia , Justin Hawkins ( The Darkness ), Chris Martin ( Coldplay ), Fran Healy ( Travis ), Beverley Knight , Busted , Ms. Dynamite , Danny Goffey ( Supergrass ), Katie Melua , Will Young , Natasha Bedingfield , Snow Patrol , Shaznay Lewis , Joss Stone , Rachel Stevens , The Thrills , Róisín Murphy ( Moloko ), Lemar , Estelle , Neil Hannon ( The Divine Comedy ), Feeder , Thom Yorke as well as Jonny Greenwood (both Radiohead ) and Dizzee Rascal .

Band Aid 30

For the 30th anniversary, initiator Geldof recorded a new edition of the song to raise money to fight the Ebola epidemic in parts of West Africa . Therefore, the lines of text "Where a kiss of love can kill you" were (Where a kiss of love can kill you) and "And there is death in every tear" (And there is death in every tear) was added, suggesting the transfer of the Ebola virus is related to body fluids.

The following musicians participated in the formation: One Direction , Chris Martin ( Coldplay ), Sinéad O'Connor , Bono ( U2 ), Robert Plant ( Led Zeppelin ), Guy Garvey ( Elbow ), Sam Smith , Ellie Goulding , Ed Sheeran , Olly Murs , Clean Bandit , Emeli Sandé , Rita Ora , Bastille , Paloma Faith . The new version was recorded on November 15, 2014, and went on sale two days later when it first aired on The X Factor on British television.

Carla Bruni , Johnny Hallyday and Daft Punk are working on a French version .

German version

For the 30th anniversary of Do They Know It's Christmas , there was a version of the song with a German text, written by Campino , Marteria , Thees Uhlmann and Sebastian Wehlings for the first time . The song was produced by Vincent Sorg , Tobias Kuhn and the band Die Toten Hosen , was released as a single on November 21, 2014 and reached number one in the German single charts in December 2014.

Participants in the German version of Band Aid 30 in the order of their use in the song:
Campino , Philipp Poisel , Clueso , Seeed , Andreas Bourani , Ina Müller , Jan Delay , Marteria , Michi Beck from the Fantastischen Vier , Max Herre , Cro , Sportfreunde Stiller , Silbermond , Milky Chance , Max Raabe , Wolfgang Niedecken , Udo Lindenberg , Sammy Amara von den Broilers , Anna Loos , Peter Maffay , Thees Uhlmann , Gentleman , Patrice , Jan Josef Liefers , Adel Tawil , 2raumwohnung , Donots , Jennifer Rostock and Joy Denalane .

Members of the Band Aid projects at Live Aid and Live 8

Many of the artists participating in the Band Aid projects also appeared on Live Aid and Live 8 . While the entire band Aid performed at Live Aid, the following artists were (also) involved in Live 8:

Kylie Minogue (Band Aid II) and Jamelia (Band Aid 20) were also supposed to appear on Live 8 , but these appearances did not occur.

Similar projects

Bob Geldof's idea of gathering the UK's biggest stars for a benefit single in a studio drew wide circles and encouraged musicians in numerous other countries to undertake similar projects , mostly as part of Live Aid .

In 2003 numerous German musicians who became famous through casting shows covered the song Do They Know It's Christmas? Under the name TV Allstars . , The proceeds went to the SOS Children's Villages campaign worldwide .

criticism

The Band Aid projects are accused of generating an unreflective view of the African continent and of pushing the people there into a pure victim role.

One day after the publication, the singer Patrice , who was involved in the Band Aid 30 project, distanced himself from his participation: “I have many relatives in Sierra Leone, one of the heavily affected countries. The spread of the most blatant 'Charity Porn', as shown in the opening sequence of the video, is therefore perhaps particularly close to me. In any case, I cannot and will not accept that in silence. ”Referring to the Band Aid 30 logo, he criticized that it shows the African continent, although only three countries were affected by the Ebola epidemic.

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  1. ↑ Chart sources Band Aid: DE1 DE2 AT CH UK US
  2. ↑ Chart sources Volume Aid II: DE CH UK
  3. ↑ Chart sources Band Aid 20: DE AT CH UK
  4. ↑ Chart sources Band Aid 30: DE AT CH UK US
  5. ↑ Chart sources Band Aid 30 (German version): DE AT CH
  6. ↑ Band Aid 2014: “Do They Know It's Christmas?” With One Direction, Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Renzo Wellinger, Musikmarkt, November 17, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musikmarkt.de
  7. ↑ Volume Aid 30 in German: Text order and artists involved , Stern Online, November 24, 2014
  8. ↑ Aid for Africa - is that colonialist? . The daily mirror. Retrieved November 27, 2014.
  9. ↑ "Band Aid 30" stirs up nasty prejudices  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Young. Retrieved November 27, 2014.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.zeitjung.de  
  10. ↑ Patrice regrets participating in Band Aid 30 . tonspion.de. Retrieved November 27, 2014.