This month marks the 39th anniversary of the recording and release of the song, “Do They Know It’s Christmas.” The song created a new category of music: The charitable single and it led to more songs that were recorded to give money to various charitable outlets and some of these songs included: “We Are The World,” “That’s What Friends Are For” and “Hands Across America.”
I’ve got a half a dozen articles about the making and recording of the song, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” and a video documentary from the recording session.
And then there’s the MBIP Coming Attractions for this upcoming week!
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Sunday Links
Band Aid: The Charitable—and Controversial—History of ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ - This article has more history of the song and notes that some of the profits may have ended up in the wrong pockets.
Is “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” The most misunderstood holiday song? - This writer explains how the song gave him hope when he was twelve-years-old.
Band Aid 1984: Six surprising facts about the iconic song - A half a dozen factoids about this legendary holiday single.
What the ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ celebrities have said about the Eighties classic - Bono, Martin Kemp, George Michael and Bob Geldof share memories from this now classic Christmas song.
Band Aid: The Charitable—and Controversial—History of ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ - This article has more history of the song and notes that some of the profits may have ended up in the wrong pockets.
“Do They Know It’s Christmas?”: Songfacts - One interesting factoid here is that while there were 37 singers, there were just three musicians who recorded the bakcking track.
Band Aid - Full Documentary - Here’s a video documentary of the recording of the song.
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MBIP Coming Attractions
Monday: I went with my friends, Amber, Joe and Sheila to Agatucci’s for a pizza dinner and we had some holiday Tom & Jerry drinks at the bar after dinner.
Tuesday: We’re sampling yet another one of the corn dogs from Dog Haus Peoria on our corn dog tour.
Wednesday: It’s getting to look a lot like Christmas so we’re celebrating with our 7th stop in our Eight Shops of Xmas Holiday Tour!
Thursday: Due to a miscalculation, we’re also celebrating the 8th stop on our Eight Shops of Xmas Holiday Tour on Thursday too!
Friday: On Friday we’re making a cookie stop to end up this year’s posts here on MBIP!
Saturday: We’re going to take a week long break here on the blog and I’ll be announcing that on Saturday.
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Sunday Comic
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Related Posts: Sunday Links: Spinal Tap, Richard Pryor and Peoria, Magical Mystery Tour.