"Do They Know It's Christmas?"
"Do They Know It's Christmas?" is a melody written in 1984 by Weave Geldof and Midge Ure in response to TV reports of the 1983–1985 starvation in Ethiopia. It was first recorded in a solitary day on 25 November 1984 by Bandage, a supergroup set up together by Geldof and Ure and comprising predominantly of the greatest English and Irish melodic acts at the time. The single was discharged in the Assembled Realm on 3 December 1984 and helped by significant attention it entered the UK Singles Outline at number one and remained there for five weeks, turning into the Christmas number one of 1984. The record turned into the quickest selling single in UK diagram history, selling a million duplicates in the primary week alone and passing 3,000,000 deals on the most recent day of 1984,[ while in transit to dislodging Wings' "Reflect of Kintyre" as the greatest selling single ever in the UK. It held this title until 1997 when it was overwhelmed by Elto...