On this day in music history... 1984, The charity supergroup Band Aid recorded “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” at Sarm West Studios in London, England. Written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, it became the fastest selling single in UK chart history. The track reached record stores just three days after it was recorded, “Do They Know” remained the U.K.’s biggest-selling record until Elton John’s Princess Diana tribute version of “Candle in the Wind” overtook it almost 15 years later. Geldof himself still has trouble hearing the original. “I associate it with the meat counter at my local supermarket,” he says. “Every time I arrive to buy the fucking turkey, I hear [hums the song’s intro]. The butcher looks at me with a little smile and I go, ‘Yeah, yeah. Give me the fucking turkey, dude.'”

Posted by Team Noisy Brain at 2022-11-25 20:39:42 UTC