Anyone watch the making of Do They Know Its Christmas Doc on BBC

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Such a lovely slice of nostalgia. I now have major crush on Midge Ure - such a lovely creative and extremely calm man in the face of potential chaos.

Lovely to see the process and the genius of a young George Michael and Boy George bringing in the smut and humour.

Exactly.

And I'll have nowt said against Paul Young ❤

Was lovely to see Simon Le Bon & Boy George's close friendship. I was always surprised that BG wasn't friends with GM. He said in a recent interview that their paths only crossed a couple of times over the years & their egos were too big

I watched it last night. It was great. I've seen Paul Young live and he was fab!

Three quarters of that list is American. Hard to summon them to West London at a moment's notice. They had to get who was around and who Geldof/Ure could get hold of. No mobiles/texts/emails then remember.

A bit OT but i've seen Heaven 17 live a couple of times recently and they're fantastic. GG has a fantastic voice and he's funny. Temptation is a proper show-stopper.

George Michael really disliked Boy George as BG kept trying to out him as gay. Lots of snide comments about closets as I recall. Interesting that Boy George seems to have forgotten that!

Dollar were a goner by 84
Bucks Fizz were on the wane
Sade turned it down
Annie Lennox had vocal cord issues
Alison Moyet wasn't considered famous enough, apparently

Or Boy George has grown up after nearly 40 years and regrets his actions at the time, plus doesn't want to rake over the coals now that GM is dead and not there to give his side of the story.

His response seems quite tactful.

To be clear, I wasn't suggesting those acts should have participated (apart from Lennox and Moyet). I was saying be careful what you wish for!

Bucks Fizz wouldn't have been asked anyway but they had also not long before been in an awful coach accident.

It would have been a very different sound with Dollar and Bucks Fizz. They probably weren't considered cool enough to be on Band Aid anyway (alongside Cliff Richard and Shaky) although I can't say Status Quo were in any way 'cool'.

I thought the Bucks Fizz coach crash was before Band AId but it actually happened a couple of weeks afterwards.

Yeah, I sort of wonder where Quo came from. Perhaps Bob was a bit conscious that he needed some OAPs

Or dr*g dealers

Well, yes, it seems so!!

I really love BG since seeing him in I'm a Celeb. He just comes across as a lovely guy imo. Never had much interest in him before but I think he's a true icon & has probably grown up a lot, I agree. GM's feelings about him were probably valid though

Francis Rossi was 35 at the time 🤣

Yeah, but he looked 50!

Does anyone know who the young farmer with the flat cap on the mixing desk was? Such a cool look!

Francis Rossi and the Quo have always looked 50. Maybe it was the denim suits.

I think George Michael's side of the story would still be the same to be honest! Hopefully George has grown up but I suspect it's embarrassment on his part rather than maturity that has made him change his story.

Yeah like those teachers in primary school who looked 60 but were probably 30! 🤣

Yeah with the fag on his lips the whole time.

And footballers all looked 45.

The attack he went to jail for happened 17 years ago, so he certainly hadn't grown up nicely by then!

Yes and iirc he came across as a petulant prat on iacgmooh.

George Michael was absolutely lovely and not at all affected by stardom. I met him several times, away from the spotlight, and he was always like he appeared on that programme.
Not only a great singer but a very lovely guy.