Where were you when you first heard Band Aid?

So what were you doing when you first heard that song and saw that video asks Richard Fitzpatrick?

FOR people of a certain age it’s an uncomfortable realisation that’s its 30 years since the original, ‘Do They Know it’s Christmas?’ It was 1984 and pop videos were at their zenith, with MTV USA a ‘must see’ on Sunday afternoons in two-channel Ireland. The collaborative effort by top pop and rock stars that was Band Aid was something that we’d never seen before.

Many of us remember sitting transfixed in front of teak-box televisions and scrutinising every last detail in that video, or learning the lyrics from Smash Hits magazine.