| Band Aid is about to turn 40 years old, so naturally the song’s stars have been asked to reflect on their time recording the banger that was Do They Know It’s Christmas? And naturally that time sounds like pure 80s chaos.Some of our favourite festive titbits:
– Francis Rossi (Status Quo) got caught staring at Jody Watley’s bum. Which is weird, he says, because he’s “not one of those bum blokes”.
– There were only four women in the whole room, Jody Watley of bum-staring fame, and Bananarama.
– Spandau Ballet arrived straight from the airport in a Daimler, while Sting walked in with a copy of The Observer under his arm. Gary Kemp admits they might have got the tone wrong.
– Status Quo were the most generous with the gear, providing weed and gak for the rest of the group.
– Stung by criticism of the lyrics Midge Ure claims they were written to rhyme, not to make sense, e.g. they couldn’t write “there won’t be snow in Ethiopia this Christmas time” (too many syllables). |
