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'Band Aid Thirty'-British artists release new Christmas song against Ebola
Band Aid/YouTube ^ | 11/17/14

Posted on 11/17/2014 8:16:26 AM PST by hoagy62

Remember "Band Aid" back in 1985, the project that raised funds to help Africans during the huge drought they were having? Well, they've done it again, and this time, it's about Ebola.

Midge Uri and Sir Bob Geldof teamed up again to re-do the song "Do They Know It's Christmas" with updated lyrics that change the focus from drought to the Ebola virus. Several British artists showed up for the song's taping, including the band One Direction, Seal, Sinead O'Connor, and Bono of U2.

I watched the video and the song is pretty well-done with the new lyrics and all. One bit of warning: the first 20-30 seconds of the video show the removal of a dead Ebola victim from her home by germ-suited workers. It's a grim scene.

Oh...as of this morning's release of the video, in the first 5 minutes, it has raised over 1.5 million British pounds for Ebola research.

Here's the VIDEO.


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: bandaid30; ebola; fundraising
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To: hoagy62

Live Aid was actually pretty good and was broadcast on MTV which was good stuff at the time. I’ve owned the 3 DVD LIVE AID set for years and it is excellent. Lots of great bands of the time.


21 posted on 11/17/2014 8:51:50 AM PST by WyCoKsRepublican
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To: hoagy62

yep... just throw money at Africa..and those corrupt billionaire leaders, in each country, will make sure that money gets to the proper destination.

these people never learn. the problem with Third World Africa is corruption.


22 posted on 11/17/2014 8:53:12 AM PST by Chuzzlewit
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To: Arm_Bears
How does one go about getting a job where results don’t matter?

Well... you could be a weatherman.

23 posted on 11/17/2014 8:54:57 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: hoagy62

Might be too little and too late. The Ebola plane is routed to pick up someone from Guadalajara Mexico and take them to Atlanta. So either someone really likes Tequila or Obola is now in Mexico.


24 posted on 11/17/2014 8:56:46 AM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: hoagy62
You may think "Last Christmas" is a pretty gay song, but...

"Christmas is the Time to Say I Love You" is by far my favorite Christmas song by a performer later outed as being a homosexual.

Yes, Billy Squier.

25 posted on 11/17/2014 9:14:01 AM PST by T-Bone Texan (The time is now to form up into leaderless cells of 5 men or less.)
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To: hoagy62

I hate all three, along with Paul McCartney’s “Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time.” That song makes me retch every time I hear it.


26 posted on 11/17/2014 9:14:10 AM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Nothing is sometimes the right thing to do, and always a wise thing to say.)
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To: SamAdams76
>"it's time to come up with another feel-good holiday song with a catchy and repetitive chorus that will open our wallets up at the malls. "

christmas heart 2:45

27 posted on 11/17/2014 9:18:44 AM PST by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: T-Bone Texan

Then there’s Bryan Adams’ “Reggae Christmas.” Because nothing says Reggae like a scrawny white Canadian guy.


28 posted on 11/17/2014 9:20:44 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: UCANSEE2
How does one go about getting a job where results don’t matter? Also...you could be a community planner! But only if you are also a Democrat.
29 posted on 11/17/2014 9:29:16 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: T-Bone Texan
Billy Squier...he got tricked into doing a video for one of his songs that had a homosexual theme that greatly damaged his career ("Rock Me Tonight") but apparently he is a happily married heterosexual.

Speaking of Christmas rockers, one of my favorite rock Christmas songs is "I Believe In Father Christmas" by Greg Lake. Later on, a band called Human Drama did an awesome version of it. Definitely worth finding a download for that.

30 posted on 11/17/2014 9:34:40 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76
Speaking of Christmas rockers, one of my favorite rock Christmas songs is "I Believe In Father Christmas" by Greg Lake.

I thought that was a very anti-religious song.

31 posted on 11/17/2014 9:36:18 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: hoagy62

A song to rid the world of Obola would be even better.


32 posted on 11/17/2014 9:50:38 AM PST by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: hoagy62

I despise the horrible song “Do They Know It’s Christmas” almost as much as I despise the utter execrable “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” that infects the radio during Christmas.


33 posted on 11/17/2014 10:15:47 AM PST by Dr. Thorne ("Don't be afraid. Just believe." - Mark 5:36)
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To: Dr. Thorne

“Do They Know It’s Gruber After All?” is Bammy’s favorite Holiday tune.


34 posted on 11/17/2014 10:17:57 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: fatnotlazy

Ebola has been researched for 40 years and despite what the CDC claims, we do know how it’s transmitted and how to treat it. The problem is idiots who insist on eating infected meat, kissing all over infected corpses, stealing patients and blood soaked linens from clinics and those leaders who are still in denial. Band Aid isn’t going to help a thing when so many are stuck on stupid.


35 posted on 11/17/2014 10:20:12 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: SamAdams76
Every Christmas I pullout the King;

I bought this album new. Than bought the CD and now have it on my IPhone ;)

Ed

36 posted on 11/17/2014 10:23:30 AM PST by husky ed (FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
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To: dfwgator

Wham’s Last Christmas single re-released on Black Friday to mark 30th anniversary of the song

http://www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/Wham-s-Christmas-single-released-Black-Friday/story-24518363-detail/story.html

Last Christmas, I gave you Ebola
But the very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I’ll give it to someone special


37 posted on 11/17/2014 10:28:05 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: bgill
From what I understand, the virus may have mutated so that it now can be transmitted through the air. There is still a great deal of uncertainty as to how to transmit the disease. I surely wouldn't trust Obama, the CDC the NIH or any of the talking head experts who have been all over the TV lately.

My point is that these celebrity charity efforts usually don't do much, if anything, for the cause. I remember reading that Band Aid, Live Aid, Haiti relief and others may have netted a paltry sum for the actual cause. The bulk went to “overhead,” “expenses” and what not. In the case of Haiti, I believe most of the money and supplies ended up in the hands of corrupt government officials and gangs.

If I'm going to give to some charitable endeavor, I'd give to local cause. Why should squander my limited resources for hellholes of poverty, superstition, corruption and greed?

38 posted on 11/17/2014 10:36:37 AM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: husky ed

I like the Porky Pig version of Blue Christmas.


39 posted on 11/17/2014 10:37:45 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Me too. Also anything from Bob Rivers’ Twisted Christmas albums.


40 posted on 11/17/2014 11:15:39 AM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Nothing is sometimes the right thing to do, and always a wise thing to say.)
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