VIDEO: Band-Aid, Minus Bono, Sings “Do They Know It’s Christmas”
Here’s something I’ve never seen before: Band-Aid singing (err, lip-synching) “Do They Know It’s Christmas” on Top Of The Pops, but without Bono.
And yet, despite not having all of the singers there, they go on lip-synching right over Bono’s line as if there’s nothing strange about it at all.
I don’t know the exact date of that TOTP performance, but it would surely have been December 1984. And since U2 was touring the U.S. that month, there was no way for Bono (nor Adam) to show up for the TV performance.
How weird it all is.
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Paul Young looks like a cross between Bono and The Edge with the mullet and plaid shirt.
The BBC recorded the 1984 Chrsitmas edition of Top Of The Pops over 3 seperate nights in mid December. It’s likely that as U2 were playing in the US up until the 16th, they wouldn’t have been able to attend any of the recordings. Bono’s part in the song was mimed very badly by Paul Weller, who at the time was fronting The Style Council.
The wikipedia page for “Do THey Know It’s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_They_Know_It's_Christmas%3FChristmas?” states that “U2 wasn’t invited on to the episode, as they’d only had one hit in 1984 and were still a growing band, so Paul Weller was given the task of miming Bono’s words as well as his own.”
I think, given that Bono and Geldof were/are mates, if he was available he would have been there. After all, there were a quite a few crap artists that were not on the record that still “sang” on the Christmas Day version.