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Rundkuchenbrot / Pseudo Dec 16

So bissel durch meine Musiksammlung stöber - oh was weihnachtliches 🎅 🎁

Thomas Anders - Do They Know It's Christmas 2017
Original by Band Aid 1984
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WttZqYuHbc

aus dem TV - Heiligabend mit Carmen Nebel - 2017

#ThomasAnders #DoTheyKnowItsChristmas #BandAid #CarmenNebel #Weihnachtslied

Thomas Anders - Do They Know It's Christmas 2017

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Freiheit☮️Vielfalt🌈Demokratie Dec 4

Ich liebe diesen Song und ich mag diese Version irgendwie, weil sie mich an meine Kindheit/Jugend erinnert. 🍀

#DoTheyKnowItsChristmas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf0Sxofd0Yw

TV AllStars - Do They Know It's Christmas (2003)

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nojarama Dec 3

Happy anniversary to Band Aid’s charity single, “Do They Know It’s Christmas”. Released on this day in 1984. #DoTheyKnowItsChristmas #BandAid1984 #LiveAid #FeedTheWorld

nojarama Nov 25

41 years ago on this day in 1984, the charity supergroup Band Aid recorded “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” at Sarm West Studios in London, England. Written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, it became the fastest selling single in UK chart history, selling a million copies in the first week. #bandaid84 #dotheyknowitschristmas #feedtheworld

RonSupportsYou Nov 14

Merry Christmas! Every year a gigantic Christmas tree appears
in San Francisco's Union Square. It is already up.
#holidays #travel #DoTheyKnowItsChristmas?

50+ Music May 30, 2025

"We Are the World" is a #charitySingle recorded by the #supergroup USA for Africa in 1985. It was written by #MichaelJackson and #LionelRichie and produced by #QuincyJones and #MichaelOmartian for the album #WeAreTheWorld. With sales in excess of 20 million physical copies, it is the eighth-#bestsellingSingleOfAllTime, meant to raise money for the #19831985FamineInEthiopia. Soon after the British group #BandAid released "#DoTheyKnowItsChristmas" in December 1984.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AjkUyX0rVw

U.S.A. For Africa - We Are the World

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Scottish Lass Dec 20, 2024

Also a brilliant doc about Last Christmas itself and making the video.

Wham!: Last Christmas Unwrapped: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00263v9

The Making of Do They Know It’s Christmas?: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0025gmy
#LastChristmas #BandAid #DoTheyKnowItsChristmas #Christmas

Wham!: Last Christmas Unwrapped

This Christmas special tells the story of how George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley’s Wham! turned one song into a cultural phenomenon.

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CM Xanthos Dec 19, 2024

🧵 2/3
"Commentators have called out the song’s condescending lyrics, the insinuation that Africa is a single country, the depiction of Africa as a place of despair, and the use of demeaning imagery."

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/12/8/2290847/-Band-Aid-Charity-Controversy-Brings-Back-Bullying-Memories

#DoTheyKnowItsChristmas
#Ethiopia #Africa #colonialtropes
#BobGeldof #EdSheeran

CCIA Europe Dec 19, 2024

#DoTheyKnowItsChristmas? ☃️ That’s the question @MathildeAdjutor keeps asking.

🎁 For 2025, her wish is simple: let’s ensure #DSA implementation consultations don’t overlap with the #holidays and take stakeholder input into account.

#DigitalServicesAct #DigitalFairnessAct