The original Band Aid single saw artists join forces in 1984, led by Boomtown Rats frontman Geldof and Ultravox’s Midge Ure to help charities working with starving children in Ethiopia.

A t barely 20 years old, Midge Ure was already successful with his first band Slik. For the first time in his career, he ...

Midge Ure on playing the 2025 Cruel Fest Line ... such notable bands as Visage and Thin Lizzy. He helped form Band Aid where he produced and co-wrote the smash charity single 'Do ...

It was described as 'The Day Rock and Roll Changed the World' but how did that unforgettable day on 13 July 1985 come about. Band Aid... It all started when Bob Geldof, who had seen Michael Buerk ...

Bob Geldof, for the Band Aid Trust, says: “It is extraordinary that 40 years after Midge and I knocked off, as quickly as we could, what we thought was an ok-ish little Christmas song, a whole series ...