Culture of the United Kingdom music of Christmas has always been a combination of sacred and secular, and every year in the UK there is highly publicised competition to be the Christmas number one single, which has led to the production of music which provides the mainstay of festive playlists. Responding to a BBC report on the 1984 famine in Ethiopia, Bob Geldof created the charity supergroup Band Aid who recorded "Do They Know It's Christmas?". It has been Christmas number one three times. Written by Sarah Flower Adams in 1841, the Christian hymn "Nearer, My God, to Thee" is associated with the sinking of
What About Love (The Desert Rose Band song) What About Love (The Desert Rose Band song) "What About Love" is a single by American country rock band The Desert Rose Band. The song was released as the lead single in 1993 from the band's fifth and final studio album "Life Goes On". Beginning with the 1991 single "Will This Be the Day", the band had commercially declined on both the American and Canadian Country Singles Charts. The band's 1991 album "True Love" failed to stop this decline and shortly after both John Jorgenson and Steve Duncan left the band. "What About Love" became the band's second to last