A trustee of the Band Aid Trust, he celebrated his 70th birthday ... end to his live performances in 2006 but he continued making music until his death from liver cancer in 2016, including his ...

For the 20th anniversary, Band Aid 20 involved a re-recording of the single with more popular music stars of the era, ...

The original release of "Do They Know It's Christmas", by an all-star line-up of artists entitled Band Aid, was "masterminded" by Boomtown Rats frontman Bob Geldof, who worked with Ultravox singer ...

When Band Aid recorded a single to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia, the supergroup famously sang: "Do they know it's Christmas time at all?" The discovery confirms that Christianity ...

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 ...

Astonishingly, Matthew J. Jones "How to Make Music in an Epidemic: Popular Music Making During the AIDS Crisis, 1981—1996" is the first academic book on pop music's response to AIDS before effective ...