By Dave Bates For the Observer-Reporter In the back of my truck lives an innocuous looking bag. It is roughly 12 x 18 and nine inches thick. With it, I am prepared for many minor emergencies. There is ...

Getting shot, and trying to keep it a secret. By Damon Colquhoun It felt as if someone were pressing a lit cigarette to my thigh. I knew that burn, thanks to my father’s drunken humor, but this ...

It is a song that spawned many musical efforts to grow charitable giving. It launched Band Aid which led to Live Aid, Farm Aid and many other events. However, the song's tone of colonialism has ...

where she admitted to only having seen “4 per cent of all the Marvel movies”, or Ed Sheeran’s horror at being included in the dreadful “Ultimate Mix” version of Band Aid’s Do They Know ...

‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’ was 1984’s Christmas Number 1 and has been a festive season staple sinceIt featured stars like George Michael, U2 and The Beatles’ Paul McCartneySome ...

When the BBC aired journalist Michael Buerk's harrowing reports of Ethiopian famine in 1984, few could have imagined the enduring legacy they would inspire. Among those watching was Irish musician ...

The row over Band Aid's 'Do They Know It's Christmas' has opened up again this year. The project has raised tens of millions - but critics, like Fuse ODG, say the lyrics are outdated.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut the cash reserve ratio (CRR) by 50 basis points to inject liquidity into the banking system. Economists predict this effect will be short-lived, requiring the RBI ...

It follows Ed Sheeran saying last month that Band Aid had not asked for permission to re-use his vocals from a 30th anniversary version of their track. He then credited Fuse ODG, who had declined ...

Record producer Mike Stock took aim at Bob Geldof over his explanation as to why Band Aid 2 - the 1989 follow-up to the original 1984 charity single 'Don't They Know It's Christmas?' has been ...

It's been 40 years since Bono joined the supergroup Band Aid in the name of ending world hunger - and plenty has changed for him in the decades since. The U2 singer has risen to become one of the ...

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