Do They Know It's Christmas

Guys, I don't know if you know this. There's a lot of starving people out there. Like a lot a lot. I'm just finding this out now.

Bob Geldof, lead singer of the Happy Mondays, a band who's biggest hit was about a girl who shoots up a school because she was bored, decided to fight the forces of hunger by forming Band Aid, a musical supergroup, and releasing a single with all the proceeds going to charity.

Band Aid was formed with some of the most famous musicians of all time(re: the 80s). Among the band include:

• Queen
• Paul McCartney (deciding not to ruin another Christmas song)
• Bono (sporting the greatest mullet of all time)
• Boy George (being Boy George)
• Sting (who literally looks exactly the same as he does now)
• George Michael
• Phil Collins

and also Jody Whatley, Bananarama, Duran Duran and a couple of other bands who had like zero hits in the 80s.

For years it was the largest selling single in the UK until Elton John remade his song about one dead lady and made it about another dead lady. Unlike that song, however, Band Aid has reappeared in multiple incarnations. The most recent including Dido, Robbie Williams and Chris Martin. Damon Albarn of Blur made the tea for the event. I'm serious.