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) a review of the "Life Goes On" album by the "Los Angeles Times", Jim Washburn mentioned the song being performed live: "They performed the majority of the songs from the new album, including the pending single "What About Love" and "That's Not the Way It's Supposed to Be," a couple of finely country numbers in the traditional Desert Rose Band mould." 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