the first band aid song was released on 5.
when was the first band aid song released?
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in the late 1984 bob geldof and midge ure organized the famous famine relief campaign named band aid, which continued throughout 1985 until its finale – the historical live aid concert on 13 july 1985. the concert was broadcast worldwide including sfr yugoslavia. beside "do they know it's christmas?" and usa for africa projects from the uk and usa respectively, plenty of other countries also joined in. for example: canada, west germany, austria, norway etc. the sfr yugoslav pop and rock elite also joined geldof's campaign and formed a yugoslav band aid under the name yu rock misija. the group included oliver mandić, željko bebek, marina perazić, momčilo bajagić, aki rahimovski, husein hasanefendić, slađana milošević, jura stublić, dado topić, massimo savić, zdravko čolić, izolda barudžija, snežana mišković, alen islamović, sead lipovača, dejan cukić, doris dragović, anja rupel, srđan šaper, vladimir divljan, peđa d' boy, zoran predin and other eminent musicians. they recorded the yugoslav band aid song "za million godina" ("for a million years") written by former generacija 5 leader dragan ilić and mladen popović. the guitar solo in the song is played by vlatko stefanovski. the song was released as a single. also a corresponding video was filmed. bora đorđević and goran bregović, leaders of riblja čorba and bijelo dugme were not credited on the record's back cover, however they appeared in a tv performance of the song. at the end of the campaign, the yugoslav musicians played a big 8 hour stadium concert on june 15, 1985 in belgrade. the video for "za million godina" was played on many tv stations worldwide and also, on july 13 at the wembley stadium on large video screens during a video interlude. it is included, though not completely, in the "overseas contributors" section in the official "live aid dvd" that was released in the 2004 by warner music group.
popular music in yugoslavia
band aid 20 was a new iteration of the original band aid and band aid ii supergroups, recording a new version of "do they know it's christmas?" in aid of crisis in darfur, sudan. shaznay lewis, formerly of all saints, peaked at number 8 with her debut solo single "never felt like this before". she also performed on the band aid 20 single. roisin murphy had appeared in the chart before with moloko but she featured on "do they know it's christmas?" in her own right. tom hannon (of the divine comedy), coldplay's chris martin, tim wheeler (ash) and tim rice-oxley and tom chaplin (both from the band keane) had similarly charted with their groups before band aid 20.
list of uk top-ten singles in 2004