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
Faith Hope & Charity (British band) recordings. Faith Hope & Charity (British band) Faith Hope & Charity was a short lived British group that featured Dani Behr, Sally Ann Marsh and Diana Barrand. They released two singles and an album. They had a minor hit with their debut single "'Battle Of The Sexes" which peaked at #53 on the UK Singles Chart in 1990. Failing to become successful the band broke up and Behr went into television production. Note: some websites incorrectly confuse the discography of this group, with the US band Faith Hope & Charity, that recorded in the 1970s and sang on several Van