N o song in the history of pop has had an effect quite like Band Aid’s “Do They Know it’s Christmas?” The 1984 star-studded supergroup charity single raised £8m for famine relief in ...

And Band Aid’s controversy soup only ever thickens. For while Sheeran is currently wishing that he wasn’t on this latest record, we can name 16 artists who probably wish that they were.. Yes ...

The music business has changed as well, and Ure has found this Band Aid to be the most hectic ever, especially because once again every musician is recording in the same room: “The first time ...

"Pop music, however well-intentioned (and no song was ever more well-intentioned than this one), can be so incredibly clumsy," says The Guardian's Bim Adewunmi.. She describes Band Aid 30 as ...

A few months after Band Aid burst to the top of the U.K. singles chart – where it remained for five weeks – and climbed to No. 13 on Billboard’s Hot 100, the collective genius of Michael ...

Band-aid By . Brian Niemietz. Published Oct. 24, ... Up Buttercup,” ponders Harvey, saying his band’s name reflects the “poppy” and “sinister” nature of their music: ...

It will cost 99p to download or £4 to buy on CD and George Osborne this morning pledged to waive VAT on Band Aid 30 so “every penny goes to fight Ebola”. Geldof said: "It really doesn't ...

Most marital arguments, in the worldview of the couples-therapy dramedy “Band Aid,” consist of refrains so repetitive that they might as well be set to music. That’s the joke — or one of ...

ON WEDNESDAY, longtime Washington bassist Wade Matthews will be reminded of just how many friends he has in the local music community. Sadly, what has come to be known as Wade-Aid has been made ...

The two-day Veterans Band Aid Music Festival is coming to Virginia Beach for the fifth year in an effort to raise money for emerging treatment used to ease symptoms of service-related traumatic ...

The Veterans Band Aid Music Festival will be held May 31 and June 1 at the Holiday Trav-L-Park. This is the fifth year Coastal Authority Care Foundation has hosted the festival at the Virginia ...