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Band Aid releases 'Do They Know It’s Christmas?' 2024 Ultimate Mix 40th Anniversary video

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Friday, 29 November 2024 10:02

By Amanda Flannery

(via Universal Music Ireland)

The latest Band Aid compilation has been released.

The brand-new 2024 version of ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ was premiered simultaneously across Irish and UK breakfast time radio on 25th November - the 40th anniversary of the recording of the original song.

'Do They Know It’s Christmas? – 2024 Ultimate Mix’ is available to buy now digitally and physically on the Band Aid Compilation 1CD and 12” Vinyl.

The Christmas pop song, which went on to launch the greatest series of events in pop history, was recorded on three separate occasions.

 

Over three separate generations, Band Aid (1984), Band Aid 20 (2004) and Band Aid 30 (2014) were released, causing a monumental “instrument of change”.

Now, producer Trevor Horn has taken these recordings and, through extraordinary music production techniques, blended all the voices of those separate generations into one seamless whole.

Horn has re-imagined "the song that changed that world" and revivified its original emotional sense.

While director Oliver Murray has visualised Trevor’s "painstaking superlative creation" work on video.

The Band Aid 'Do They Know It’s Christmas?' 40th Anniversary compilation, including brand new ‘2024 Ultimate Mix’, is out now.