 Complete the following phrase:  Do They Know Its Christmas? is a song written in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in reaction to television reports of the 19831985 famine in Ethiopia. It was first recorded in a single day on 25 November 1984 by Band Aid, a supergroup put together by Geldof and Ure and consisting mainly of the biggest British and Irish musical acts at the time. The single was released in the United Kingdom on 3 December 1984 and aided by considerable publicity it entered the UK Singles Chart at number one and stayed there for five weeks, becoming the Christmas number one of 1984. The record became the fastest selling single in UK chart history, selling a million copies in the first week alone and passing three million sales on the last day of 1984, on the way to displacing Wingss Mull of Kintyre as the biggest-selling single of all time in the UK. It held this title until 1997 when it was overtaken by Elton Johns Candle in the Wind 1997, released in tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales following 