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HOFFMAN: One song...
HOFFMAN: One song, in Jimmy Shine with Cleavon Little. It was a beautiful song. [Sings.] "She's a laaaaady." Yuck. I can't sing...
HOFFMAN: If he were a girl who said, "I really don't want to get past first base," I made sure I got to second. Sing us a song! Right now, Barbra...
...other song ever had so much impact? Do They Know It's Christmas?, the sing-along single recorded by British supergroup Band Aid in 1984 to raise money for starving Ethiopians, was the beginning of a fund-raising phenomenon. The song, which brought together everyone from U2 to Wham! (an achievement in itself), went straight to No. 1 in Britain and raised some $18 million. We Are the World, an even schmaltzier American effort, and the accompanying Live Aid rock concert, which was screened to 1.5 billion people around the globe, raised millions more. Band Aid, the brainchild of scruffy...
This Christmas we can hear it all again. The season marks the 20th anniversary of the original release of Do They Know It's Christmas?, and Geldof's resurrection of the song--featuring contemporary stars like Robbie Williams and Chris Martin from Coldplay--came out in Europe last week and is a hit again (it's available in the U.S. as an import at music chain stores and as a download from bandaid20.com) Proceeds will again help starving Africans, especially those in Sudan's Darfur region, where fighting between rebels and government-backed militias has left 70,000 dead...