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
M.B. December 21, 1984 M.B. December 21, 1984 M.B. December 21, 1984 is a live album by Slovenian industrial pioneers Laibach. The album was recorded on 21 December 1984 at Malči Belič Hall in Ljubljana, Slovenia and on 26 April 1985 at Kulušić in Zagreb, Croatia, both then part of the former Yugoslavia. It was released in 1997 by The Grey Area, a sublabel of Mute Records. The part of the album recorded in Ljubljana was taken from a concert dedicated to the deceased former member Tomaž Hostnik. It was held in secret due to the band being banned from using the name Laibach.