<Li> Hear' n Aid </Li> <Li> Northern Lights Disco Aid </Li> <P> Band Aid is a charity supergroup featuring mainly British and Irish musicians and recording artists . It was founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for anti-famine efforts in Ethiopia by releasing the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" for the Christmas market that year . On 25 November 1984, the song was recorded at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, London, and was released in the UK four days later . The single surpassed the hopes of the producers to become the Christmas number one on that release . Three subsequent re-recordings of the song to raise further money for charity also topped the charts, first the Band Aid II version in 1989 and the Band Aid 20 version in 2004 and finally the Band Aid 30 version in 2014 . The original was produced by Midge Ure . The 12" version was mixed by Trevor Horn . </P> <P> The supergroup was formed by Bob Geldof, who was then lead singer of the Irish band The Boomtown Rats . The BBC played a major role in capturing the poverty affecting Ethiopian citizens and thereby influenced Geldof to take action . Paula Yates, Bob Geldof's partner, is considered to have been the brains behind the original Band Aid . It was she who became the driving force that inspired (and helped) Geldof to rally the most famous pop stars of the 1980s to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia . </P>

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