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Band Aid 25 years on"> Feed the world? Band Aid 25 years on </a></h2> <p class="meta"> <span class="timr">November 22, 2009</span> <span class="user">By: Declan </span> <span class="catr">Category: <a href="http://u2ol.net/category/news/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a></span> </p> <div class="entry">   <div class="adsense adsense-leadin" style="float:left;margin: 12px;"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div><p><strong>Feed the world? Band Aid 25 years on</strong></p> <p>Ethiopia’s leaders won’t admit it, but famine has returned to East Africa. Andrew Johnson reports</p> <p>Sunday, 22 November 2009</p> <p><a href="http://u2ol.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/untitled2.bmp" rel="wp-prettyPhoto[g753]"><img src="http://u2ol.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/untitled2.bmp" alt="untitled" title="untitled" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-756" /></a></p> <p>It’s Christmas time (nearly) and quite soon it will be impossible to switch on the radio without being bombarded by the preachy strains of a slightly shambolic Christmas song recorded 25 years ago in an effort to feed the world.</p> <p>Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”, written in haste by Bob Geldof of the Boomtown Rats and Midge Ure of Ultravox, was unprecedented. Shocked by the BBC newsreader Michael Buerk’s report of the famine in Ethiopia, which claimed a million lives, and the distressing footage of children with distended stomachs in a bleak African landscape, Geldof and Ure strong-armed some of the biggest names of the 1980s music scene into making the charity record.</p> <p>Geldof, whose own career was on the decline, pledged that every penny would go to the cause. He even faced down Margaret Thatcher’s government which initially refused to waive VAT on the single but later relented.</p> <p>So at dawn on a bleak 24 November, Ure and Geldof turned up at the London studio of the record producer Trevor Horn, which he had donated for 24 hours as he was not able to work on the track. The two musicians were armed with backing recorded the previous evening at Ure’s home studio.</p> <p>It was also the perfect news story, and the world’s media were on hand as the biggest acts of the 1980s – Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, George Michael, Sting, Bono and Adam Clayton of U2, Paul Young and Bananarama – turned up to record their contributions. Geldof even insisted that Boy George fly in from America – he turned up at six in the evening. Ure and Geldof worked late into the night mixing the record, before Geldof went on the radio the next morning to plug it.</p> <p>The resulting single, bolstered by media attention, sold a million copies in the first week of its release in early December 1984, and went on to be the fastest-selling UK single of all time.</p> <p>It stayed at No 1 for five weeks, clocking up sales of 3.5 million, the biggest selling UK single until Elton John’s Princess Diana tribute, “Candle in the Wind”, in 1997. Eventually, it raised £5m for famine relief. Two other versions – 1989’s Band Aid II and 2004’s Band Aid 20, which both also hit No 1 – raised millions more. There was more money from the Live Aid concert in 1985 and 2005’s follow-up, Live 8.</p> <p>In all, Geldof and Ure’s wheeze – copied in America as USA for Africa – put more than £150m into famine relief. The Band Aid Trust still has an income of about £2m a year, which is spent in Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, Eritrea, Somalia and Nigeria. </p> <p>It was meant to be the song that changed the world. Only it didn’t. Twenty-five years on, famine stalks Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa again. As The Independent on Sunday reported in August, millions of people in the Horn of Africa are facing malnutrition and starvation in the worst food shortages since 1984. </p> <p>The United Nations warned in June that as many as 6.2 million people in Ethiopia will need some kind of food aid in the next few months. But the true figure of those with insecure food supplies could be as high as 13.7 million. Twelve million Ethiopians received food from donor countries last year – Britain is the second biggest donor – most of it through the United Nation’s World Food Programme. Aid agencies fear for this year’s harvest because of poor rain and critical water shortages.</p> <p>The government in Ethiopia, however, remains reluctant to use the word famine. Earlier this year, its prime minister, Meles Zenawi, said there was no danger of famine this year. Ethiopia’s ambassador to Britain, Berhanu Kebede, insisted the problem was being tackled. “We are addressing the problem. Food is in the pipeline,” he said.</p> <p>Ethiopia doesn’t want attention distracted from its achievements in education, trade and infrastructure. But its population has doubled to 80 million since 1984, and its rural economy is said to be less productive than that of medieval England. </p> <p>“The [Ethiopian] government has just got to embrace the crisis and not be frightened of the statistics,” Gareth Thomas, a minister with the Department for International Development, said. “It is different from 1984, but there’s still huge need. There’s got to be a recognition that if we are going to stop children from being malnourished and keep people alive, we have to have accurate information.”</p> <p>Where are they now? Not everyone on the Band Aid single made it to mega-stardom</p> <p>Adam Clayton</p> <p>U2 were on the verge of their transformation from OK Irish rockers to corporate rock mastodon when the Band Aid single was recorded in 1984. Clayton, now 49, still plays bass for the monsters of shouty rock.</p> <p>Phil Collins</p> <p>Prog-rocker turned crooner Phil, 58, the former Genesis drummer then frontman, sold bucketloads of syrupy singles, pausing briefly to star in the 1988 film Buster. Now a granddad, he’s working on an album of Motown covers. In September he said he’ll never play drums again due to a spinal injury.</p> <p>Bob Geldof</p> <p>Architect of Band Aid and 1985’s Live Aid concerts, St Bob of the Boomtown Rats saw his career nosedive. Now 58, he has made a tidy £30m out of his Ten Alps TV company, and let slip daughter Peaches on to an unsuspecting public. Still championing Africa, he organised the 2005 Live8 concerts. Accused of tax avoidance by The Mail on Sunday in 2007.</p> <p>Steve Norman</p> <p>Spandau Ballet’s multi-instrumentalist spent most of the 1990s in Ibiza or playing sax on the global club scene. But there’s Gold in them revival tours and Norman, 49, has a new lease on life thanks to SB’s decision to re-form this year.</p> <p>Chris Cross</p> <p>The 80s belonged to Duran Duran but Cross’s bass guitar on Ultravox’s “Vienna” helped make it one of the era’s most recognisable tunes. Cross, 57, became a psychotherapist and mental health counsellor after the band split in 1988. It re-formed last year and toured this April. </p> <p>John Taylor</p> <p>Duran Duran’s bassist quit the band in 1997 for a less than thrilling solo career. He rejoined the foppish princes of excess in 2001. At 49, he has recently moaned that Twitter is “diluting the magical power and the magnetic attraction that they can or will ever have over their audience”, whatever that means.</p> <p>Paul Young</p> <p>Sang the opening “It’s Christmas time…” line on the Band Aid single. The soul cover artist, 53, best known for his version of “Wherever I Lay My Hat”, spent much of the 90s plugging away before becoming a staple of nostalgia tours. He’s popped up on MasterChef and Hell’s Kitchen and tours with his Tex-Mex band Los Pacaminos. Began an internet download site last year.</p> <p>Tony Hadley </p> <p>Spandau Ballet’s frontman, 49, had a less than successful solo career after the band split in 1989, culminating in his appearance on the ITV reality show Reborn in the USA in 2003. He won. Hadley unsuccessfully sued Gary Kemp in 1999 for a share of the band’s songwriting royalties. He’s currently touring with a reformed SB.</p> <p>Glenn Gregory</p> <p>Heaven 17’s frontman sang “no rain nor river flows” on the Band Aid single. The electro-poppers are still touring after a slump in the 1990s. Gregory, 51, is also now producing “soulful electronica” with DJ Keith Lowndes under the name Honeyroot.</p> <p>Simon Le Bon</p> <p>One of the biggest stars of the New Romantic movement. Duran Duran lead singer Le Bon, 51, has never been far from the gossip columns, mainly due to has marriage to the model Yasmin Le Bon and their socialite offspring including young model Amber. Currently working on Duran Duran’s 13th album. </p> <p>Simon Crowe</p> <p>Drummer with the Boomtown Rats, the 54-year-old kicks off a new tour with the band, minus most of its original line-up, at the Aspinall Arms in Blackburn next week.</p> <p>Keren Woodward</p> <p>Bananarama’s singer and songwriter, now 48, shacked up with Wham!’s Andrew Ridgeley and lives an idyllic existence in Wadebridge, Cornwall, with dogs and farmhouse. She stayed with Bananarama throughout, most recently performing at this year’s Rewind Festival in Henley.</p> <p>Martin Kemp</p> <p>Struck it lucky by being asked to play bass with Spandau Ballet, and learned to play in three weeks. Became an actor and hit the big time as Steve Owen in EastEnders earlier this decade before becoming the face of DFS sofas. His charmed life continues with the current reunion of Spandau Ballet.</p> <p>Siobhan Fahey</p> <p>Another Bananarama founder, Fahey, 51, quit in 1988 to form Shakespear’s Sister with Marcella Detroit. Married the Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart in 1987 and in the 1990s was briefly treated for depression. She rejoined Banarama for a spell in 2002 and is still active with Shakespear’s Sister.</p> <p>Jody Watley </p>   <div class="adsense adsense-midtext" style="text-align:center;margin: 12px;"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div><p>In 1984 she was a singer for the soulful R&B band Shalamar. She left the band for a relatively successful solo career that culminated in a Billboard lifetime achievement award in 2007. Now 50, she set up Avitone records in 1995.</p> <p>Bono</p> <p>U2’s pompous lead singer, 49, continues to look down on the world through various coloured sunglasses while lecturing us all about poverty and environmental degradation and urging us to do better and to give more. Meanwhile, the rose-tinted one continues to take his band on global tours which always leave a carbon footprint the size of an oil slick. He has also been accused of tax evasion by using offshore accounts.</p> <p>Paul Weller</p> <p>The former Jam frontman was already in his second incarnation with the Style Council in 1984. He has since gone on to have a massive solo career, matching album sales with critical acclaim. At 51, the Modfather is now revered as an icon of British music. Won Best Male Solo Artist at this year’s Brit Awards.</p> <p>James ‘JT’ Taylor</p> <p>The American group Kool and the Gang were big in 1984, thanks to hits such as “Celebration”, “Fresh” and “Cherish”. Singer JT didn’t cherish his good fortune: he quit in 1988 and never quite reached the same heights. He’s still performing at 56.</p> <p>Peter Blake </p> <p>The British pop artist was an obvious choice to do the Band Aid cover art. (This was in the days when records were big round plastic things that needed an eye-catching sleeve.) At 77, the celebrated designer, best known for his Sgt Pepper album cover for the Beatles, is still one of our best-known artists, and has just collaborated on a project with Beach Boy Brian Wilson.</p> <p>George Michael</p> <p>Still in Wham! in 1984, Michael, 46, went on to global stardom and tacky front pages for the red-top press. He was outed as gay in 1998 when caught in a public toilet in Los Angeles and has had his drug problems well publicised. He is also one of Britain’s biggest contemporary art collectors, co-owning a gallery in Texas with partner Kenny Goss. He retired last year after a series of sell-out concerts.</p> <p>Midge Ure</p> <p>Ultravox’s lead singer, 56, co-wrote the Band Aid single with Bob Geldof, with whom he also helped produce the Live Aid concert in 1985, although the credit went largely to St Bob. He lives in Bath with his wife but still tours as a solo artist and with Ultravox.</p> <p>Martyn Ware</p> <p>Pop synth pioneer who founded Human League and Heaven 17, Ware, 53, went on to be a record producer for Erasure and designed a 3D sound auditorium for the doomed National Centre for Popular Music in Sheffield. He’s still touring with Heaven 17.</p> <p>John Keeble</p> <p>Spandau Ballet’s drummer also joined the failed attempt to sue Gary Kemp. Keeble, 50, continued to work with Tony Hadley after SB’s demise in 1990, but is part of this year’s reunion. </p> <p>Gary Kemp</p> <p>Spandau Ballet’s guitarist and chief songwriter’s career failed to ignite after split. Kemp, 50, couldn’t emulate his brother Martin’s acting success. He married actress Sadie Frost but divorced in 1997. She’s about to reveal all in an autobiography; he’s harvesting the re-formed SB’s cash crop.</p> <p>Roger Taylor </p> <p>Duran Duran’s drummer, 49, quit the band after the US Live Aid concert in 1985. He rejoined the band with the rest of the original line up in 2001.</p> <p>Marilyn</p> <p>In 1984 Marilyn, aka Peter Robinson, was the Next Big Thing and riding high with his only hit, “Calling Your Name”. Friends with Boy George but the only way he emulated him was with drug addiction. Marilyn, 47, pictured here in 1985, went on to suffer mental health problems and financial difficulties, and spoke about both in 2005. He lives with his mum in north London.</p> <p>Sara Dallin</p> <p>Bananarama’s co-founder, 47, has remained in the band since it was formed in 1979. The lean years didn’t stop the trio, and later duo, becoming one of the best-selling girl groups of all time with 40 million album sales. They joined ABC and Paul Young on tour in 2008 and at this year’s Rewind.</p> <p>Pete Briquette</p> <p>Bass guitarist for the Boomtown Rats and is now a record producer, occasionally collaborating with Geldof. The 55-year-old composed the music for Geldof’s BBC series Geldof in Africa.</p> <p>Francis Rossi</p> <p>The lead singer and guitarist for the venerable Status Quo is still Rocking All Over the World at 60. They never quit but were banned from Radio 1’s playlist for being past it in 1995, and challenged that in court. Not invited on to 2005’s Live8 bill despite opening Live Aid. At this year’s Glastonbury, they – whisper it – were quite good. Rossi has cut off his ponytail.</p> <p>Robert Kool Bell</p> <p>A founder of funky US R&B band Kool and the Gang in 1964. The only American group on the British Live Aid single, they never went out of fashion. Kool, 59, was credited on Timbaland’s 2007 album Shock Value.</p> <p>Dennis Thomas</p> <p>The other Kool and the Gang founder, the sax player and Bell stayed with it. </p> <p>Andy Taylor</p> <p>Duran Duran’s guitarist formed the band Power Station with Robert Palmer in 1985. Worked as a backing musician in the Nineties. Taylor, 48, rejoined Duran Duran in 2001 but left again in 2006 after an “unworkable gulf” opened. Published his autobiography last year.</p> <p>Jon Moss </p> <p>Culture Club’s drummer has dabbled in projects since the band’s demise in 1986. Joined Culture Club reunion in 1998-2002. In the 1990s, Moss, now 52, admitted to a relationship with Boy George.</p> <p>Sting </p> <p>When it comes to rock bores, Sting is second only to Bono. The high-pitched former Police frontman, 58, has, however, sold so many records that if you stacked them they’d probably reach to the Amazon and back. Released umpteenth studio album this month, If on a Winter’s Night. Played with Stevie Wonder at one of Barack Obama’s 10 inaugural balls. </p> <p>Rick Parfitt</p> <p>The other half of Status Quo, 61. See Francis Rossi, above. </p> <p>Nick Rhodes</p> <p>Duran Duran keyboardist. 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