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
What Time Is Love? riff from "What Time Is Love?". In 1993 "What Time Is Love?" was covered by U.K. based American Noise/Art Rock band The God Machine. The track appeared as a B- side on their limited silver vinyl "Home" single and a promo CD. In 1997 a trance cover-version was released by German producer Talla 2XLC and in 1998 Choci and Mark Sinclair released their own hard trance reworking entitled "What is Love?". Reviewing Drummond's book "45" for "The Observer" in 2000, Steven Poole labelled "What Time Is Love?" an "epic pop masterpiece". "The Observer" also described the "Pure Trance Original" as