Band Aid

Band Aid  is a charity supergroup featuring mainly British and Irish musicians and recording artists.  It was founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for anti-famine efforts in Ethiopia by releasing the song “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” for the Christmas market that year.  The single surpassed the hopes of the producers to become the Christmas number one on that release.  Three subsequent re-recordings of the song to raise further money for charity also topped the charts, first the Band Aid II version in 1989, and the Band Aid 20 version in 2004, and finally the Band Aid 30 version in 2014.  (More from Wikipedia)