Sir Bob Geldof is embroiled in an awkward Band Aid row with Ed Sheeran - but he's not backing down. It's now been 40 years since the Boomtown Rats frontman co-wrote charity supergroup Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas ? alongside Midge Ure to raise money amid the 1983 to 1985 famine in Ethiopia. The 1984 track topped the UK charts after it was released on December 7 of that year and went on to raise £8 million in just 12 months. It's now raised almost £150 million to date. Regarded as a