Stars of 2014 Recreate Band Aid Spirit as Musicians Unite to Help Ebola Victims Tracy McVeigh - The Guardian
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Band Aid 30 - Do They Know It's Christmas - Music Video (Malik Zayn)

Same studio, same month, but several new faces, most of whom were not born when the first Band Aid single was recorded three decades ago.

Saturday saw the remaking of Do They Know It’s Christmas?, the single that raised millions for famine relief in Ethiopia in 1984. Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, the same pair who organised the supergroup of British and Irish pop stars then, hope this weekend’s Band Aid incarnation will bring in similar amounts of money to help combat Ebola in west Africa.

It was an early start on Saturday for pop stars old and young who began arriving in an assortment of gleaming, tinted-window vehicles at the Notting Hill recording studios in west London just after 9am, some more bleary-eyed than others. Liam Payne, of One Direction, told fans he’d slept in. By the time U2’s Bono turned up at midday, fresh young thing Rita Ora had already recorded her segment and left.

“I just wish we didn’t have to do this,” said Bono as he arrived. “There will come a time when we won’t.”

You can donate to Médecins sans Frontières, the medical charity working with Ebola patients in west Africa. To do so visit MSF.org.uk/Make-A-Donation.

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