Band Aid 20 - Who Sings What

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Chris Martin (Coldplay) - It's Christmas time, there's no need to be afraid. At Christmas time, we let in light and we banish shade

Dido - And in our world of plenty we can spread a smile of joy. Throw your arms around the world at Christmas time.

Robbie Williams - But say a prayer, Pray for the other ones. At Christmas time it's hard, but when you're having fun.

Sugababes - There's a world outside your window, and it's a world of dread and fear.

Fran Healy (Travis) - Where the only water flowing

Fran Healy and the Sugababes - Is the bitter sting of tears

Fran Healy and Justin Hawkins (The Darkness) - And the Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging chimes of doom

Bono - Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you

Will Young and Jamelia - And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time

Ms Dynamite and Beverly Knight - (Oooh) Where nothing ever grows, no rain nor rivers flow

Group of 10 and Joss Stone - Do they know it's Christmas time at all?

Tom Chaplin (Keane) - Here's to you

Justin Hawkins - Raise a glass for everyone

Dizzee Rascal - Spare a thought this yuletide for the deprived, if the table was turned would you survive

Busted - Here's to them

Justin Hawkins - Underneath that burning sun

Dizzee Rascal - You ain't gotta feel guilt just selfless, give a little help to the helpless

Joss Stone and Justin Hawkins - Do they know it's Christmas time at all?

Tom Chaplin - Feed the world

Tom Chaplin and Chris Martin - Feed the world

Tom Chaplin, Chris Martin and Sugababes - Feed the world

Everyone - Feed the world, let them know it's Christmas time again (repeated)

Fran Healy - Wooo

Group of 10 - Feed the world

Everyone - Feed the world (repeated to end)

Joss Stone - Ad-libs over outro

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Bono returned from Ireland to record the new rendition and said he took a different approach to his emotional 1984 contribution.

"Rather than that raw, I just tried it more of a whisper tonight," he said.

The Darkness' Justin Hawkins had earlier claimed: "I did it and I did it better than him.

"So his management kicked up a stink and it obviously means a lot to him. "

― gspm (gspm), Monday, 15 November 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm glad to see the boy from Keane only gets three words. Looking forward to hear Dizzee. Will Wiley do a devil mix for the road?

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Joss Stone - Ad-libs over outro

Now that's unfortunate.

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Fran Healy - Wooo

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Surely by having Chris Martin up first everyone will have thrown their radios out of the window before getting to hear anyone else?

There were photos of them all in some of the papers there. Ash, Rachel Stevens and both the Bedingfields, amongst others, were there - how do they decide to leave them all out and let Fran Healy and Tom Chaplin have loads?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

did Richard X produce it?

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

LOL

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/04/entertainment_enl_1100527005/img/1.jpg

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I might have lied about Ash. I can see Damon Albarn, Neil Hannon, Katie Melua, Snow Patrol and the Thrills though. Why don't they all get a solo bit?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

imagine a bomb in that building

― myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Why isn't dizzee in that pic?

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

What? No "The greatest gift they'll get this year is life"??

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i think dizzeee flew in on the saturday did his bit in 3 seconds and flew back to LA. Sensible bloke really, if it means avoiding that lot on the sunday.

― jellybean (jellybean), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Where's Lemar's solo bit? This song lacks soul.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I kinda hoped he was in the back, plotting.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I bet Dizzee was all like "You may have got the Brit Urban award, but I've got a solo line and a video with puppets". And Lemar was all like "Umm... sorry, you are?".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not advovcating that that whiney-voiced git from the Thrills actually should be singing some, by the way, but there's far too much Healy, Chaplin and Martin on that record for my liking.

Dizzee's bits sound like they'll be a bit incongruous. However my mind is still boggling at the thought of Justin Hawkins and Joss Stone warbling together.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 November 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Nothing wrong with Healy, Chaplin nor Martin (clearly the best of this bunch), but they are of course better when they write their songs themselves. :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

There are a lot of syllables in those Dizzee lines. It'll be interesting to hear how he fits them in. Obviously he and Justin Hawkins will be singing different lines simultaneously -- won't that be a bit of a mess?

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't get the Chris Martin-hate here at all. It smacks of white-kid guilt. He may have a Hollywood marriage and a child with a daft name, and his band ain't setting trends or anything, but suck in your cheeks and admit it... his group's last record was alright. Better than that gruesome novelty hit Dizzee has out right now. And better than telly favourite Rachel Stevens charmlessly and guilelessly riding the mighty Richard X juggernaut.

― darren (darren), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

*sniff* I like Rachel Stevens. I have no white-kid guilt about Chris Martin. I thought he was a whining over-rated twunt long before Gwyneth got hold of him.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Um,strange assumption that everyone that posts here is white?.

As for Chris Martin" his group's last record was alright" just about sums it up.

― A pair of brown eyes, Monday, 15 November 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never been a Chris Martin apologist before, Ailsa, but I just remembered an NME interview where the hack seemed to spend half the time berating Coldplay for having met at university and been educated decently. This from the NME, virtually a Friends Reunited of minor public schools and regional polytechnics. Since then I always felt that some of the residual hatred for them was, especially from the indie meeja, a mixture of transferred guilt and envy.

― darren (darren), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe, but lots of us hate them just because they're shite.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

A pair of brown eyes: my point was exactly that - yes, it was just alright. I'm not a fan of Coldplay and they don't exactly inspire me. I just don't feel he's the, um, enemy.

And, hahha, no of course I don't think everyone that posts is white. Far from it. But that doesn't stop me from suggesting that that (ok, it was a bit clumsy) 'white-kid guilt' exists somewhere.

― darren (darren), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Coldplay, along with Travis and Keane, represent anything white hip-hop fans love to hate.

They don't hate them as much because of the quality of their output as because of the fact that they are indeed selling bucketloads of records, in spite of being within a song-based musical genre that hip-hop fans thought they had killed forever in the early 90s.

Of course, black hip-hop fans don't give a damn about Coldplay nor Travis at all. They keep listening to their favourite hip-hop records, and hip-hop musicians may even check out Travis or Coldplay to find some cool riffs to sample for their next single :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I still think it's because they're shite.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Another point here: Those who were 13 at the release of the original Band Aid single are now 33, and as such, probably fans of Coldplay and Travis and similar. :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

who is that third row down, third from the left?

― myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 08:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Coldplay, along with Travis and Keane, represent anything white hip-hop fans love to hate:

...boring music.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 08:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I started crying in the car when I heard it.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)

who is that third row down, third from the left?
-- myke boomnoise (myk...) (webmail), November 16th, 2004. (link)

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Next to bob, you mean?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 08:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, any of you guys noticed all those song-based musical genre songs on the radio these days? I thought we killed them off in the early 90s.

― wtfomglol (shmuel), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 09:16 (twenty-one years ago)

third row down,third from the left is, I think, producer Nigel Godrich.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)

It's that horrible moment a few seconds in when you realise it sounds like Keane. But, no! Worse still, Keane … but with Chris Martin and Dido. In a word: ecru.

― coco, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm pretty sure it's midge ure, actually.

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I can see Damon Albarn

Apprently he didn't record anything, he just turned up to make tea for everyone.

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Second row up, just behind busted, on the very left hand end...isn't that dog latin??

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Wankers

― Wodger, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't decide which of the following horrors I least want to hear:

Tom Chaplin and Chris Martin - Feed the world

Fran Healy - Wooo

Joss Stone - Ad-libs over outro

or possibly the Dizzee rap.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"Ad-libs over outro" seems a strange thing for Stone to say

― Freelance Quipmeister (blueski), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Midge Ure is second row up, three in.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps it's the ghost of midge ure past?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Er, yeah. "Third row down,third from the left" and "second row up, three in" are the same place. Like I said, It's midge.

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

So, who's that on the left of Bob?

Ah whatever.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

But who sings "The greatest gift they'll get this year is life"? Huh? Anybody?

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Zag. of Zig and Zag

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

he was the butch one

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

So, who's that on the left of Bob?

Dunno, but it's not midge cos he was wearing a round necked shirt on sunday:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4015337.stm

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

They don't care about Christmas in Darfur!

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard this on the bus to work this morning. It seemed piano-heavy and I suspect those are Martin's fingers at work. The Dizzee bits are a bit out of place. They're not simultaneous with Hawkins - they've put an extra couple of bars in for him. The Sugababes didn't sound very slick at all - maybe they didn't have time to do all the usual production palaver and they're not actually that good at singing! Admittedly, all this was coming at me from a tinny speaker inside the driver's cab, so I might be talking rubbish.

The Metro described Stone's ad libs as "sensational" but they probably lifted that straight from the press release.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I read somewhere that it was Thom Yorke on the piano. But it hasn't been mentioned anywhere else

― jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

They are just trying to make you laugh.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

his group's last record was alright

Great cure for insomnia.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

given that there's two or three drummers in that picture, could they not have considered putting some on the record?

― coco, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

From the NME Site..

Playing his Hofner ‘Beatle bass’, McCartney was joined at Air by Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, who plays piano and Supergrass’ Danny Goffey, who plays drums. Also present in the studio were Jonny Greenwood and Fran Healy from Travis, although Darkness guitarists Justin and Dan Hawkins waited until Saturday (November 13) to record what Justin called some "very Eighties, twin harmony guitars." Chris Martin, who had originally been down to play keyboards, was miffed at his exclusion until he discovered it was Yorke who was taking his place.

So there you go.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 18 November 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh my god. This video is bad.

I'm just not sure you can get away with pictures of the whole group watching starving children and feeling bad and then go in to Justin Darkness crotch humping his guitar on a solo while we get the infamous...

Fran Healy - Wooooo

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

On the song/video:

There's more raised eyebrows by Chris Martin and Dido than I'd expected, maybe it's the only way they know to emphasise lines.

I like the way they show the bass and piano before they show who's playing them. Thom Yorke doesn't look like himself for some reason.

The Sugababes sound really good, instantly recgonizable.

At first I thought it was Bono that was singing with Fran Healy just before The Line, which obviously he makes a pig's ear of. I can well believe that Justin did it better.

But who sings "The greatest gift they'll get this year is life"? Huh? Anybody?

Same as the line before, Will and ~~Grace~~ Jamelia.

Ms Dynamite and Beverly Knight - (Oooh) Where nothing ever grows, no rain nor rivers flow

This sounds astonishingly lifeless.

Group of 10 includes twatmonkey from The Thrills, and Busted. Also the tiny girl who's on the left, second row from the top in that picture.

Who's doing backing vocals for Dizzee's lines?

Fran Healy - Wooooo

Not as bad as the Weaah! immediately afterwards.

Is that not Tim Ash in the bottom right? He turns up playing a tambourine for 3/4 of a second in the video.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 20 November 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

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