The best live bands and artists of all time have left an indelible mark on music history through their unparalleled energy, showmanship, and musical prowess. These legendary performers transform ...

A promoter of Live Aid has dismissed Ed Sheeran’s criticism of Band Aid as the stuff of “busybodies and woke people and do-gooders”. Sheeran contributed to a 2014 version of Do They Know It ...

The just-released "ultimate remix" of Band Aid's celebrity charity single still makes Africa a caricature of despair for ...

However, as I was a teenager in the 80s, Band Aid, Live Aid and all the bands involved, represent a special part of my life and I would be interested to know what you think of my little collection.

The song "Do They Know it's Christmas?" turned 40 this year. The song's tone of colonialism has made it a point of controversy in recent years. Yet it remains popular and still seen by many as a force ...

But the chorus of disapproval about the track, its stereotypical representation of an entire continent - describing it as a place "where nothing ever grows; no rain nor rivers flow" - and the way that ...

The promoter for charity concert Live Aid has waded into the row over a new mix of Band Aid’s charity single, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”. Harvey Goldsmith – the promoter behind the 1985 Live Aid ...

While Band Aid hoped to 'spread a smile of joy' at Christmas Time when a flurry of famous faces came together to record the original charity track Do They Know It's Christmas? in 1984 ...

The release of the Band Aid single, and the Live Aid concert that followed eight months later, became seminal moments in celebrity fundraising and set a template that many others followed.

There’s an argument to be made for the notion that Band Aid, and the subsequent Live Aid gig, were the culmination of the story of pop music in the UK. Obviously, you’d need to define what you ...