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The music video is an audiovisual response to the latest incarnation of Do They Know It's Christmas? - a charity song first written in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for the famine in Ethiopia.

Speaking about the debate, Midge Ure recently acknowledged the criticisms of Band Aid's approach in the modern climate, saying it was "unfortunate" that Sheeran had not been contacted about the 2024 mix.

These pictures inspired two pop stars, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, to bring together some of the biggest names in pop music at the time to record the song.

There's something about the chorus Sir Bob and Midge Ure wrote in 1984 that captures a spirit of hope in humanity that no amount of production trickery can erase.

In 1984, responding to horrific images of the famine in northern Ethiopia broadcast on the BBC, musicians Bob Geldof and Midge Ure corralled some of the biggest stars of the era to record a charity song.