Band Aid Do They Know It's Christmas Bass Cover
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- "Do They Know It's Christmas?" is a song written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in 1984 to raise money for relief of the 1983--1985 famine in Ethiopia. The original version was produced by Midge Ure and released by Band Aid on 29 November 1984.
In October 1984, a BBC report by Michael Buerk was aired in the UK, which highlighted the famine that had hit the people of Ethiopia. Irish singer Bob Geldof saw the report and wanted to raise money. He called Midge Ure from Ultravox and together they quickly co-wrote the song, "Do They Know It's Christmas?".
Geldof kept a November appointment with BBC Radio 1 DJ Richard Skinner to appear on his show, but instead of discussing his new album (the original reason for his booking), he used his airtime to publicise the idea for the charity single, so by the time the musicians were recruited there was intense media interest in the subject. Geldof put together a group called Band Aid, consisting of leading British and Irish musicians who were among the most popular of the era. On 25 November 1984, the song was recorded at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, London, and was released four days later.
The 1984 original became the biggest selling single in UK Singles Chart history, selling a million copies in the first week alone. It stayed at Number 1 for five weeks, becoming Christmas number one, and has sold 3.69 million copies domestically. It remained the highest selling single in UK chart history until 1997, when Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997" was released in tribute to the late Diana, Princess of Wales, which sold almost 5 million copies in Britain. Worldwide, the single had sold 11.8 million copies by 1989.
Following the release of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in December 1984 and record sales in aid of famine relief, Geldof then set his sights on staging a huge concert, 1985's Live Aid, to raise further funds.
The song was re-recorded in 1989 by Band Aid II and in 2004 by Band Aid 20, again raising funds for famine relief. The 2004 version of the song sold 1.16 million copies.
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Still brings tears to my eyes. Thanks for watching.
You my friend are a bass master !!! Love watching your videos, thank you.
Thanks very much. Cheers
I'm a drummer of too many years and am obsessed with my instrument. My favourite bass players, yes I have developed preferences through live and practice experiences, are the bass players who played changes but keeping a certain rhythmic sequence or motif with breaking it. It always should me their disacipline to provide the appropriate part to a collected effort,ensemble, of forming a song. Too many times I played with players , of many instruments, who routinely broke the pattern to feature a fill or lick of theirs to put their stamp on the song which isn't bad but isn't right in every song either. You in your video demonstrate a discipline that I favour in general, though am always impressed and thrilled by flare other times, for its overall function in the piece as a whole and as a listening experience. I think you demonstrate the philosophy of musicianship and your cleanliness of execution of this seemingly simple bass line, but actually rather difficult part for its need for great accuracy and clean technique. Great upload, great performance and great example of a great attitude towards music in its entirety. I'm impressed good sir
Love this!!!
Amazing
Excelente
I'm sorry but I don't know how to slap. Thanks for watching.
This is great!
The bass in the original version is played by John Taylor (Duran Duran) !!!!!!!!! :) :) :)
I did not know that. Thanks very much for sharing that. John Taylor is an amazing bass player. Cheers
Not sure about that. I have seen many times the documentaries about the making of Do they know it's Christmas? and it always brings me to the same conclusion: Midge Ure did the recordings for the bass guitar and keyboards (no guitar needed in this song) in his studio prior to the recording of the song with Phil Collins playing his drum part and all the famous singers.
Yeah! The fact that John Taylor appears in the video playing the bass guitar also mislead me long ago, but then we should say that Gary Kemp played the guitar as well, and there's no record confirming that both played these instruments for the recording of the song. You can't even find a record coming from DD saying that John Taylor recorded the bass guitar for it.
You are right! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_They_Know_It%27s_Christmas%3F#Personnel_2
Thank you, Adrian. I didn't see that. Confirmed: John Taylor played the bass guitar on this song.
i wished the original song had more bass added to it. nice play btw.
I'm guessing the dislikes are people who don't like Christmas.
Hey do you ever slap? Would love to see a slap-cover by you
This is really good! what chords do you play
Merry Christmas Constantine 🎄 Χρόνια πολλά!
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So who actually played on the original recording?
Duran Duran apparently