Posted on 11/25/2024 6:02:11 AM PST by RandFan
Bob Geldof has said his Band Aid charity single has “kept millions of people alive” after a new 40th anniversary version of Do They Know It’s Christmas? faced criticism.
To mark the song’s milestone, a remix has been created which blends the voices of artists who have featured on previous editions including Harry Styles, George Michael and Bono.
Ed Sheeran said last week that they did not ask for permission to re-use his vocals from when he sang on Band Aid 30 in 2014, and that he would have “respectfully” declined the request.
The singer-songwriter said in a social media post that “a decade on and my understanding of the narrative associated with this has changed”, citing a post by British-Ghanaian rapper Fuse ODG that criticised foreign aid in Africa.
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It made him personally $60 million. Self righteous con-artist POS.
I hate that song.
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Big act of self promotion ?
I often thought this.
Was he that well known before? It’s just, JUST before my time.
Probably also kept a few African dictators alive.
Probably also kept a few African dictators alive.
The guy had one minor hit single in the early 80s and starred in Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” movie. That was the sum total of his career before his Africa scam.
Yes i know. I often thought about how this all came about.
He managed to rope some of his more famous friends into it.
Starvation in the world has obviously ended, and it was all because of that song... Right?
Liberals love it when they are given credit for saving da world while raking in the big bucks. Phonies.
Yeah. He’s a very good con-artist. He glommed onto the crises in Africa. The Ethiopian famine and a few others and got his musician buddies involved. He did Live Aid and made tons of money. Some of it he gave to Africa. He was asked about why he was worth $60 million a few years back and he went ballistic on the reporter. Couldn’t explain how a middling punk rocker got so rich off doing charity. Probably worth a lot more now.
ugh! an awful song.
Wouldn’t it have been more appropriate to call the song “Do They Know It’s Kwanzaa?” I don’t see what Christmas has to do with it unless they are after whitey’s money.
They don’t like Mondays, I hear.
Personally, I don't think too many Africans care whether it is Christmas or not and they probably don't mind not having snow either.
Also played Pink in Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”
My favorite line is:
“And the Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging chimes of doom”.
Normally you’d have to read a bathroom wall in a library to get poetry like that.
Our vehicle stopped at one of the women and the guides spoke to her in,I assume,Swahili (it certainly wasn't English). With the woman was a young kid...maybe 10...maybe even older.
This kid was skin and bones. He/she had red/orange hair,a giant belly and little stick legs. Unless I'm mistaken those are all signs of severe,chronic,malnutrition (I did some research).
I've seen African poverty. For a few moments I was sitting no more than 5 feet from it. It's ugly...very ugly!
I have no clue how much.or how little,that song helped. I can say that I really like it and I hope it did,in fact,help.
Unlike others, I don't begrudge him (or anybody) their riches. The Live Aid stuff is sort of silly and pretentious but he's done way more than that in his life.
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