Band Aid 2004

[MidnightVoice]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/gallery/0,8542,1351743,00.html

Twenty years after Bob Geldof and Midge Ure created Band Aid and raised £8m fo r African aid, pop's great and good gathered in a North London studio on a cold winter morning in November to re-record Do They Know it's Christmas. Ure and Geldof once again masterminded the process, while Paul McCartney and Bono were the only acts to be involved in both. Robbie Williams and Dido were among the stars whose contributions were recorded abroad.

Reactions to broadcast of re-recording range from 'not a patch on the original' to 'it reduced me to tears'.

[Snarf]

I heard Bono was pissed because he wanted to sing the same part he did in the original, but Justin Hawkins of The Darkness (never heard of The Darkness or Mr. Hawkins) was supposed to get that part. I guess Bono got his part back after throwing a temper tantrum.


Also I can't believe that Dan Aykroyd was not invited back to be in this version. When I think of Music stars, I think of Bono, Paul McCartney and Dan Aykroyd. Heck, I think of Dan Aykroyd before Paul McCartney, nobody knows what bands McCartney was in, but Dan Aykroyd is a music legend. :bigsmile: