Bob Geldof set to re-record ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’

Jim Dyson/Redferns via Getty Images Sir Bob Geldof and Pete Briquette of The Boomtown Rats perform live on stage at The Kentish Town Forum on Nov. 7 in London, United Kingdom. Geldof has recruited a new set of singers for the 2014 version of ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ to help combat Ebola.

Musician and philanthropist Bob Geldof, who in 1984 inspired a generation of rock stars to record a charity release for Africa, will raise money to combat Ebola with a new version of the song.

Geldof, frontman for Irish new wave band The Boomtown Rats, pulled together the Band Aid supergroup for “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” three decades ago to help those affected by famine in Ethiopia.

Geldof confirmed at a conference in London that the song would be re-recorded. The new line-up is expected to include boy band One Management and singers Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith, British media reports said.

The original song, which raised 8 million pounds ($ 11 million), featured some of the era’s largest acts including U2′s Bono, George Michael and David Bowie. It has been re-recorded twice in 1989 and 2004.

Geldof co-wrote the song with Ultravox singer Midge Ure. It topped the charts in 1984 and sold millions of copies, with proceeds going to Ethiopian famine relief.

They followed it up with Live Aid in 1985, a transatlantic concert that raised an estimated $ 100 million for Ethiopia.

Ebola has killed 4,950 people out of more than 13,000 infected since it broke out in West Africa earlier this year, according to the World Shape Organization, mostly in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

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