Do They Know It's Christmas was worst song in the world, admits Bob Geldof

Daily Mail ^ | 11/30/2010 | Simon Cable

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If you haven’t heard a rendition of Do They Know It’s Christmas yet this year, it’s only a matter of time.

But should you curse Bob Geldof for writing That Song, you’ll be in good company. He’s fed up with it too.

The single was released 26 years ago today as Geldof set up Band Aid to raise money for famine-hit Ethiopia.

And although it became the biggest selling single in the world at the time, it seems he’s had enough. He said: ‘I am responsible for two of the worst songs in history. One is Do They Know It’s Christmas? and the other one is We Are The World.

'Any day soon, I will go to the supermarket, head to the meat counter and it will be playing. Every ****ing Christmas.’

He said carol singers also include it in their repertoire when they visit his South London home each year, alongside the more traditional Silent Night.

The former Boomtown Rats frontman, 59, added: ‘Sometimes I think that’s wild because I wrote it. Or else I am thinking how much I want them to stop because they are doing it really badly.’ Geldof co-wrote the song with singer Midge Ure.

The campaign, which went on to raise more than £100million, was inspired by Michael Buerk’s BBC news report on Ethiopia’s famine.

Musicians including Sting, Bono, George Michael and Phil Collins sang on the Band Aid track.

Its success led to the release of U.S. charity single We Are the World months later.

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No, that would be John Lennon's "Imagine."

Amen, brother.

Whenever I see Imagine ranked as the #1 song on some some list, I think "that schmaltzy pablum? Sweet Mother of Pearl, even the Swinging Medallions had better songs. If Lennon hadn't been shot outside the Dakota, the song would be ranked just ahead of "Please, Mr. Custer," and just behind "My Ding-a-Ling."

The lyrics are like a poem written by junior high school student, and as for the sincerity? Well, I can 'imagine no possessions,' but John, Yoko, and the Lennon estate have done quite well with royalties off that abortion of a song.

And, believe it or not, I LIKE John Lennon.

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The worst song in the world is "Philosophy Of The World" by The Shaggs.

I think he was talking about music.

As the owner of the Shaggs' album, I can assure you it can't be filed under the category.

Man, did the father destroy the lives of those three girls.