1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia out the first airdrops from Hercules C-130s delivering food to the starving people. Other countries including Sweden, East and West Germany, Poland, Canada, United States and the Soviet Union were also involved in the international response. Buerk's news piece on the BBC was seen by Irish singer Bob Geldof, who quickly organised the charity supergroup Band Aid, primarily made up of the biggest British and Irish artists of the era. Their single, "Do They Know It's Christmas?", was released on 3 December 1984 and became Britain's best-selling single within a few weeks, eventually selling 3.69 million copies domestically. It raised
M.B. December 21, 1984 M.B. December 21, 1984 M.B. December 21, 1984 is a live album by Slovenian industrial pioneers Laibach. The album was recorded on 21 December 1984 at Malči Belič Hall in Ljubljana, Slovenia and on 26 April 1985 at Kulušić in Zagreb, Croatia, both then part of the former Yugoslavia. It was released in 1997 by The Grey Area, a sublabel of Mute Records. The part of the album recorded in Ljubljana was taken from a concert dedicated to the deceased former member Tomaž Hostnik. It was held in secret due to the band being banned from using the name Laibach.