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Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry
Styles, Zayn Malik and Louis
Tomlinson – collectively known as
One Direction – requested to sing
the opening lines of the track and,
explains Sir Bob, knew exactly how
they wanted to perform it. “[They]
rehearsed it as a whisper, which is
hard to sing together as a group
but it eases you into the song and
then the track just builds”
missus [Jeanne Marine], who’s French, says they’re
brilliant. Then the Norwegians called up, and
everyone’s snowballing into recording their own
version of the song.”
The philanthropist pulled together a team of
A-listers for the new version of the charity hit to raise
money for the fight against the Ebola virus.
The stars gathered at Sarm Studios, where the
original recording was made in 1984, to record the
track. It’s available to download for 99p from
iTunes, while a CD, complete with artwork by
Turner Prize-winner Tracey Emin and priced at £4,
will be available from early December. “Tracey is a
friend and I rang her, just like I rang all the other
people, asking for something special in the Band
Aid tradition, as we’ve had Peter Blake and Damien
Hirst in the past, and she said, ‘I’d love to do it,’” Sir
Bob tells hello!. “The next minute I get this classic
piece of Emin art – it’s very clear and to the point.
We’ve got three posters of the artwork signed by
every artist in the room at the recording ready to go
on sale at auction.”
REACH FOR THE STARS
Sir Bob was the first to arrive at the West London
studios for the recording and was soon joined by
his original collaborator on Band Aid, Ultravox
frontman Midge Ure. Rita Ora and One Direction
were next through the doors, with hundreds of
screaming fans heralding the boy band’s arrival,
followed by Ed Sheeran and Sinéad O’Connor.
Sir Bob’s daughters Pixie and Fifi, who had been
present at the original recording with their mother
Paula Yates, were also present, along with BBC
Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw.
Before the artists took to their recording booths
to deliver their vocals, Sir Bob gave a rousing
speech, reiterating the cause behind the charity.
The lyrics to the original song, which was written
to aid famine relief, have been changed to refer to
the Ebola crisis, and now include the lines:
“Where a kiss of love can kill you/And there’s
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