
Band Aid 30

Band Aid 30
Band Aid 30 was a charity supergroup assembled in the United Kingdom in 2014 as a revival of the original Band Aid concept that began in 1984. Comprised of well-known British and Irish popular music artists and producers, the project recorded a reworked version of the song "Do They Know It’s Christmas?" in a contemporary pop production style to raise funds for humanitarian relief. Musically, the recording reflected mainstream pop and pop-rock sensibilities of the time, featuring multiple vocalists alternating lines and a communal chorus, with production emphasizing polished studio arrangements and choir-like backing. The initiative was limited in scope and duration, organized to respond to a specific crisis rather than to function as a continuing band, and it followed the precedent of collaborative charity singles in popular music.