Bob Geldof reveals some of public's extraordinary generosity as he donates Band Aid archive to State

The Band Aid archive will be transported from London, where it had been in storage, to Dublin to be catalogued, preserved, selectively digitalised and exhibited.

A young married couple from Scotland sold their house and tried to give the proceeds to the Band Aid famine relief effort, Bob Geldof said.

Old women donated their wedding rings as part of an unprecedented outpouring of Western support for millions starving in Ethiopia in 1984 and 1985, the musician and songwriter said.