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Band Aid return for Ebola victims

One Direction, Coldplay's Chris Martin and Ed Sheeran are to team up for a new incarnation of Band Aid, 30 years after Do They Know It's Christmas? was first released.

Songwriters Bob Geldof and Midge Ure confirmed today that they are springing into action once again to raise funds in the fight against the "filthy" and "inhuman" Ebola virus in West Africa.

And after initial fears that chart star Rita Ora may be unable to attend the recording on Saturday because of her commitments to TV series The Voice, the BBC said it was looking at ways of freeing her up to appear.

Other acts lined up to play on the track include U2's Bono - who appeared on the first version in 1984 - as well as Paloma Faith, Emeli Sande, Elbow and Bastille.

Boomtown Rats frontman Geldof said he had been inspired to re-record the song because of the "phenomenal bravery of the National Health doctors and nurses who volunteered to go out there".

It will be the fourth time the song has been recorded, with the most recent effort released a decade ago. After its original release - to help famine relief in Ethiopia, selling 3.7 million copies and raising

Source: www.msn.com
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