Rockstar Bob Geldof reveals why new remix of Do They Know It's Christmas will be the last recording

It was 1979 when the world discovered Sir Bob Geldof.

The number one hit, I Don't Like Mondays, shot him and his Irish rock band the Boomtown Rats to international fame.

But it's Geldof's humanitarian work that's made him a household name.

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Disturbed by a news report on the famine in Ethiopia, Geldof was inspired to write the 1984 hit Do They Know It's Christmas.

He enlisted big names from Bono and Boy George to Sting and George Michael to raise awareness and money for the famine.

"I was sickened by it. I mean, that is really it," Geldof told A Current Affair.

"I sat down and turned on the TV, and here was this devastating thing that put, you know, my pathetic, puny personal problems in a horrifying perspective."

Since then, three more versions of the charity song have been made, in 2004, 2014 and now, in 2024.

Instead of recruiting new artists, this time Bob Geldof has remixed famous renditions from previous versions to combine the greatest voices of our time.

And he says it will be the last hurrah for the iconic Christmas tune.

"I personally think, it's the definitive one and there will be no more," Geldof said.

"The world has never been more fragile in my life, and I'm old, and I don't think people can take on board any more horror.

"They cannot absorb any more, but it's happening."

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