Talk:Do They Know It's Christmas?/Archive 1

Shortening
I was just wondering why the article was shortened so much. The previous version seemed perfectly fine to me and suddenly it became a stub. If there's a good reason for why it was shortened, I'll leave it alone. If no one responds in the next little while, I'm reverting it back to the old version. - User:BNLfan53, May 18, 18:35 UTC
 * Please revert to this edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Do_They_Know_It%27s_Christmas%3F&oldid=29215968

-Benbread 20:00, 19 May 2006 (UTC) I reverted it. - User:BNLfan53, 23:07, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

"Do They Know It's the Fourth of July?"
Under "Other versions and parodies", I think we should add one parody of the title of this song from Grand Theft Auto:Vice City on the VCPR radio station. Maurice (the host) refers to a song called "Do They Know It's the Fourth of July?". If someone could clarify this for me and add it into the article, it would be appreciated. CT456568 19:30, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Lyrics copyvio
This song is presumably still under copyright, so the lyrics are a copyright violation if we print them here. — Amcaja 09:27, 12 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Good work! Note to anyone looking for the lyrics, and who sings what verse, - don't even think of looking at the archived version. Repeat - don't even think of looking at that version.Ratestep 17:06, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:04, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Release date?
The lead and the infoboxes say November 29, 1984, but the rest of the text says December 3rd -- anyone with a reference for the correct date? Thanks! &mdash; Catherine\talk 20:50, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Dec 3rd is correct. If it had been released on Nov 29th it would have entered the chart w/e 8th Dec rather than 15th Dec. MFlet1 (talk) 12:16, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Joss Stone comment
"the likes of Joss Stone didn't know about the song because she hadn't been born"??

Surely no one - not even that stupid woman, with her fake American accent - could be that ignorant? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.246.71.166 (talk) 08:10, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Protect Page
Page keeps being abused edited. Experting (talk) 11:30, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
 * This page is not protected. Please submit requests for page protection here. Thanks, MrKIA11 (talk) 14:10, 11 December 2009 more like 1980

Bob Geldof calls his own song one of "the worst songs in history"
www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sir-bob-geldofs-tacky-curse-of-christmas/story-e6freuy9-1225961709521 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shellfish513 (talk • contribs) 00:15, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Have random peope been added to the ensemble?
I'm pretty sure that these people listed in the ensemble:
 * Paul Stanley (Kiss)
 * Roger Daltrey (The Who)
 * Steven Tyler (Aerosmith)
 * Michael Jackson

Have been added as a 'laugh' or 'joke', as I believe none of them had anything to do with the original record. Firstly, it is a well-worn pub-quiz question that the only person involved in both in this song and We Are The World is Bob Geldoff, not Jackson. Secondly, if you read original back sleeve (http://files.myopera.com/Azaroth/albums/941133/3back.jpg) these names do not appear, and seem to have been added as a block between two names that are present on the sleeve.

Unless a source can be found for them, I am minded to remove them. 31.55.48.153 (talk) 14:48, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Band Aid 20 and 30
As these have their own articles do we need all the chart performance here as well? Seems unnecessary in an already long article? If nobody objects I'll sync with the main articles and delete here. Btljs (talk) 09:14, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

Who sang which line?
What happened to the table that listed the lyrics and the singer of each line? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.200.155.212 (talk) 20:39, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Lyrics are copyrighted and therefore Wikipedia gets into trouble if it reproduces them all. Richard3120 (talk) 22:06, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

Impact ?
Nothing on the impact of this song on the situation in Ethiopia ? What happened to the money they generated ?
 * There's probably something in Geldof's or Ute's autobiographies, but someone will have to search for it and add it. Richard3120 (talk) 14:16, 13 September 2016 (UTC)