The days when you could deflate the egos of the country’s top pop stars so they could all squeeze into one studio to sing a song for charity seemed consigned to rock history. But Midge Ure and Bob Geldof are rolling back the years by assembling a new generation of stars to remake Band Aid’s Do They Know it’s Christmas? for the victims of famine in Africa.
Twenty years after the original topped the charts, Coldplay, Jamelia, the Darkness and Travis are set to appear on a remixed version of the song penned by Ure and Geldof.
“My dream line-up has acts like Radiohead, the Darkness, Noel Gallagher, Robbie Williams, Keane and Coldplay,” said Ure, who hopes to assemble “real musicians in proper bands”. [from the Guardian, thanks Mandy]
Update: Already on board as a producer is Nigel Godrich, known for his brilliance on Radiohead’s albums.
Radiohead news on this day..
- ‘There Will Be Blood’ cover & pre-order – 2007
- Hail to the Pumpkin II – 2004
- At Ease runner-up at Digital Music Awards – 2004
- RESFEST – Jonathan Glazer Retrospective – 2004
- VOTE FOR ATEASEWEB.COM – 2003
- REVIEWS – 2003
- Radiohead: Best act in the world today – 2002
