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 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