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Ed Sheeran said last week that they did not ask for permission to re-use his vocals from when he sang on Band Aid 30 in 2014.

Sheeran said his perspective on the song had changed after listening to fellow musician Fuse ODG

His vocals were used without his permission

Ed Sheeran has claimed Bob Geldof and Midge Ure didn't ask for his permission to use his vocals on the '2024 Ultimate Mix' of 'Do They Know It's Christmas?'.

In November 1984, BBC journalist Michael Buerk presented a series of dispatches from the small town of Korem in northern Ethiopia. He described the scenes he encountered as a famine of “biblical proportions” and that aid workers in the region had told him it was “the closest thing to hell…

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Band Aid is back with the '2024 Ultimate Mix' to mark 40 years of the 'song that changed the world'.

Organiser Sir Bob Geldof said the song serves as a rebuke to the Eighties notion that ‘greed is good’

Fortieth-anniversary edition is spliced together by Trevor Horn from previous versions of the song, including snippets of George Michael, Ed Sheeran and more