OPINION - I am sick of people criticising Band Aid — this is why they're completely wrong

“Do they know it’s Christmas?” Fuse ODG (real name Nana Richard Obiana) turned down the offer to take part in the 30th anniversary of the original song in 2014 which was to be refashioned to raise money for the Ebola crisis. He says: “I pointed out to Geldof the lyrics I did not agree with, such as the lines ‘Where a kiss of love can kill you and there’s death in every tear’”. The line comes from the original quatrain of the 1985 Live Aid single: