The report featured the nurse Claire Bertschinger, who had to choose which children would receive the limited amount of food at the feeding station and who were too sick to be saved. The BBC News crew were the first to document the famine, with Buerk's report on 23 October describing it as "a biblical famine in the 20th century" and "the closest thing to hell on Earth".
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"Do They Know It's Christmas?" was inspired by a series of reports made by the BBC journalist Michael Buerk in 1984, which drew attention to the famine in Ethiopia. The 2004 version sold 1.8 million copies. All three reached number one in the UK, and the 19 versions became Christmas number ones. The 19 versions also raised funds for famine relief, while the 2014 version raised funds for the Ebola crisis in West Africa. "Do They Know It's Christmas?" was rerecorded and rereleased in 1989, 20. In a UK poll in December 2012, it was voted sixth on the ITV television special The Nation's Favourite Christmas Song. The original version of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" has sold 3.8 million copies in the UK. The success led to several other charity singles, such as " We Are the World" (1985) by USA for Africa, and spin-off charity events, such as Comic Relief and the 1985 Live Aid concert. Geldof hoped that it would raise £70,000 for Ethiopia within a year, it raised £8 million. By 1989, it had sold 11.7 million copies worldwide. In the US, it fell short of the top ten in the Billboard Hot 100 due to a lack of airplay, but sold an estimated 2.5 million copies there by January 1985. The song also reached number one in thirteen other countries. UK sales passed three million on the last day of 1984. It sold a million copies in the first week, becoming the fastest-selling single in UK chart history it held this title until 1997, when it was overtaken by Elton John's " Candle in the Wind 1997". It entered the UK Singles Chart at number one and stayed there for five weeks, becoming Christmas number one. "Do They Know It's Christmas" was released in the United Kingdom on 3 December 1984. It was recorded in a single day at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, London, in November 1984. It was first recorded by Band Aid, a supergroup assembled by Geldof and Ure consisting of popular British and Irish musical acts. " Do They Know It's Christmas?" is a charity song written in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia. "Do They Know It's Christmas?" on YouTube
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