Paul Young - It's Christmas time and there's no need to be afraid
At Christmas time we let in light and we banish shade
Boy George - And in our world of plenty we can spread a smile of joy
Throw your arms around the world at Christmas time
George Michael - But say a prayer; Pray for the other ones
Simon LeBon - At Christmas time it's hard, but when you're having fun
Simon LeBon/Sting/Tony Hadley - There's a world outside your window and it's a world of dread and fear
Sting/Bono - Where the only water flowing is the bitter sting of tears
Bono/Sting/Simon LeBon - And the Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging chimes of doom
Bono - Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you
Boy George/Paul Weller - And there won't be snow in África this Christmas time
Bono/George Michael/Boy George - The greatest gift they'll get this year is life
Paul Young - Where nothing ever grows
Glenn Gregory - No rain nor rivers flow
Todos - Do they know it's Christmas time at all?
Marilyn/Glenn Gregory/Rick Parfitt/Francis Rossi - Here's to you
Paul Young - Raise a glass for everyone
Marilyn/Glenn/Rick/Francis - Here's to them
Paul Young - Underneath that burning sun
Paul Young - Do they know it's Christmas time at all?
Todos - Feed the World (rpt)
Feed the World, Let them know it's Christmas time again (rpt)
At Christmas time we let in light and we banish shade
Boy George - And in our world of plenty we can spread a smile of joy
Throw your arms around the world at Christmas time
George Michael - But say a prayer; Pray for the other ones
Simon LeBon - At Christmas time it's hard, but when you're having fun
Simon LeBon/Sting/Tony Hadley - There's a world outside your window and it's a world of dread and fear
Sting/Bono - Where the only water flowing is the bitter sting of tears
Bono/Sting/Simon LeBon - And the Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging chimes of doom
Bono - Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you
Boy George/Paul Weller - And there won't be snow in África this Christmas time
Bono/George Michael/Boy George - The greatest gift they'll get this year is life
Paul Young - Where nothing ever grows
Glenn Gregory - No rain nor rivers flow
Todos - Do they know it's Christmas time at all?
Marilyn/Glenn Gregory/Rick Parfitt/Francis Rossi - Here's to you
Paul Young - Raise a glass for everyone
Marilyn/Glenn/Rick/Francis - Here's to them
Paul Young - Underneath that burning sun
Paul Young - Do they know it's Christmas time at all?
Todos - Feed the World (rpt)
Feed the World, Let them know it's Christmas time again (rpt)
(participaram neste projeto: Adam Clayton (U2), Andy Taylor (Duran Duran), Bono (U2), Boy George (Culture Club), Bruce Watson (Big Country), Chris Cross (Ultravox), David Bowie, Dennis J. T. Thomas (Kool & The Gang), Francis Rossi (Status Quo), Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet), George Michael (ex-integrante do Wham!), Glen Gregory (Heaven 17), Holly Johnson (Frankie Goes to Hollywood), James Taylor, Jody Watley (Shalamar), John Keeble (Spandau Ballet), John Taylor (Duran Duran), Johnny Fingers (Boomtown Rats), Jon Moss (Culture Club), Keren Woodward (Bananarama), Marilyn (cantor inglês), Mark Brzezicki (Big Country), Martin Kemp (Spandau Ballet), Martyn Ware (Heaven 17), Midge Ure (Ultravox), Nick Rhodes (Duran Duran), Nik Kershaw, Paul McCartney (ex-Beatles), Paul Weller (The Style Council & The Jam), Paul Young, Pete Briquette (Boomtown Rats), Phil Collins, Rick Parfitt (Status Quo), Robert 'Kool' Bell (Kool & The Gang), Roger Taylor (Duran Duran), Sarah Dallin (Bananarama), Simon Crowe (Boomtown Rats), Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran), Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama), Sir Bob Geldof (Boomtown Rats), Steve Norman (Spandau Ballet), Sting (ex-The Police), Stuart Adamson (Big Country), Tony Butler (Big Country), Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet)).
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A minha versão preferida é a original. As outras duas são versões muito pobres quando comparadas com a primeira.
Segundo a wikipédia: "The original 1984 Feed The World logo was based on a pencil sketch by Bob Geldof after watching a BBC television news report by Michael Buerk from famine-stricken Ethiopia. Geldof enlisted the help of Midge Ure, from the group Ultravox, to help produce a charity record. Ure took Geldof's lyrics, and created the melody and backing track for the record. Geldof called many of the most popular British and Irish performers of the time (Kool & The Gang and Jody Watley were the only Americans present at the original recording), persuading them to give their time free. The recording studio gave Band Aid no more than 24 free hours to record and mix the record, on 25 November 1984. The first tracks to be recorded were the group / choir choruses which were filmed by the international press. The footage was rushed to newsrooms where it aired while the remainder of the recording process continued. Later, drums by Phil Collins were recorded. The introduction of the song features a slowed down sample from a Tears for Fears' track called "The Hurting", released in 1983. Tony Hadley, of Spandau Ballet, was the first to record his vocal, while a section sung by Status Quo was deemed unusable, and replaced with section comprising Paul Weller, Sting, and Glenn Gregory. Simon Le Bon from Duran Duran sang between contributions from George Michael and Sting. Boy George arrived last at 6pm, after Geldof woke him up by 'phone to have him flown over from New York on Concorde to record his solo part. (At the time, Culture Club was in the middle of a US tour.)
The following morning, Geldof appeared on the Radio 1 breakfast show with Mike Read, to promote the record further and promise that every penny would go to the cause. This led to a stand-off with the British Government, who refused to waive the VAT on the sales of the single. Geldof made the headlines by publicly standing up to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and, sensing the strength of public feeling, the government backed down and donated the tax back to the charity.
The record was released on November 29, 1984, and went straight to No. 1 in the UK singles chart, outselling all the other records in the chart put together. It became the fastest- selling single of all time in the UK, selling a million copies in the first week alone. It stayed at No. 1 for five weeks, selling over three million copies and becoming easily the biggest-selling single of all time in the UK.
A new version, released in 1989 was produced by British songwriting and production team formed of Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman known as Stock Aitken Waterman. The only artists from the original Band Aid to be featured again on this version were Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward of Bananarama. This version topped the UK Singles Chart for three weeks, but ultimately achieved far less historical significance and status than its predecessor.
The last version was recorded on 14 November 2004, to benefit Sudan's troubled Darfur region, and was released that same month. The single became the UK's biggest seller of 2004 as well as the Christmas Number 1.Bono, Paul McCartney and George Michael were the only artists from the original Band Aid who had been asked back to lend their voices to Band Aid 20. There was a reported dispute over the line 'Tonight thank God it's them, instead of you', which Bono sang on the original version. Justin Hawkins, of The Darkness, laid down a version of the line, but Bono insisted on re-recording his version, which was eventually used on the record."
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