…yes, they know its Christmas. And they share the values of Christmas. And after Band Aids Do They Know It’s Christmas, it’s finally time for them to give something back.
1984 was the year when the two Irishmen Bob Geldof and Bono gathered the British Isles most popular artists to record a single for the benefit of the starving children in Ethiopia. Or Africa, as they simply wrote that people would understand what continent it was about.
That single started a wave of songs written for charity, but what else could you expect? Do They Know It’s Christmas was the best selling single in the UK until five million crying Britons bought Elton Johns England’s Rose after princess Diana died in 1997.
28 years after Do They Know It’s Christmas, it’s finally time for Africa to say thank you. And why not with it’s own charity single? The questions what do the Europeans need? A stable Euro? No, good economy isn’t something Africa has an overload of. So what does Africa have a overload of? Well, heat!
And just as all has seen Biafran children with bloated stomachs, all have also seen how the Scandinavian are tortured by the snow and the cold. The problems are clearly in the country Norway. Therefore, these Africans have come up with a solution for their sisters and brothers in the north. Not a dry eye in sight!
Text: Kenneth Carlsson
Translation: Tove Kluge
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GhostofChristmasPast
Tasteless & Inaccurate. Bob Geldof’s original partner for BandAid was not Bono but Midge Ure, the Scottish singer from Ultravox.