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Geldof Disowns "Worst Songs In History"
Dec, 1 2010
It's one of the biggest selling singles of all time, was used to help raise money for famine-stricken Ethiopia, and features such distinguished luminaries as Bono, Sting, Phil Collins and George Michael, but the man responsible for Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas," Bob Geldof, (co-written with Ultravox's Midge Ure) is heartily fed up with it.
In an interview with the UK's Daily Mail, the former Boomtown Rats frontman and Live Aid organizer said: "Any day soon, I will go to the supermarket, head to the meat counter and it will be playing. Every f***ing Christmas."
The single was first released 26 years ago, and then re-released in 1989 and 2004. It proved the inspiration behind "We Are The World," the US multi-artist equivalent featuring the likes of Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie. "I am responsible for two of the worst songs in history," Geldof told the newspaper, before adding that he frequently hears carol singers performing the tune. "Sometimes I think that's wild because I wrote it," he said. "Or else I am thinking how much I want them to stop because they are doing it so badly."
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