High hopes Band Aid 20 can make Xmas No 1

A host of music artists including Bono have recorded a new version of the charity song Do They Know It’s Christmas?

They packed into a north London studio two decades after the first Band Aid project to make the single, hotly tipped to be Christmas number one.

Bob Geldof, who co-wrote the song with Midge Ure, showed the stars a hard-hitting video of the 1984 Ethiopian famine before they recorded the famous “Feed the World” refrain.

The new line-up is called Band Aid 20 because it is two decades since the original song was recorded.