An “final” model of Band Encourage’s infamous festive hit Cease They Know It is Christmas? is determined to be released to be conscious the tune’s Fortieth anniversary, featuring the voices of genuine singers as successfully as younger artists.

The music will characteristic voices from Band Encourage 1984 alongside with George Michael, Sting and Boy George, alongside the likes of Harry Styles, Chris Martin, the Sugababes, and Ed Sheeran, who seemed on the Band Encourage 20 and Band Encourage 30 versions in 2004 and 2014.

This would perchance well moreover characteristic the vocals of a younger Bono, who recorded the tune’s infamous line – “Wisely tonight thank God it is them, in its attach of you” – singing with his older self.

The singers shall be backed by the Band Encourage home band of Sir Paul McCartney, Sting, Duran Duran’s John Taylor, Phil Collins, Queen’s Roger Taylor, Supergrass’s Danny Goffey, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood, Paul Weller, Damon Albarn, Midge Ure, Gary Kemp and Justin Hawkins.

Diversified voices to characteristic on the Fortieth anniversary remix encompass Sam Smith, Elbow’s Man Garvey, Rita Ora, Bananarama, Seal, Sinead O’Connor, Robbie Williams, Kool And The Gang and Underworld, with proceeds going to the Band Encourage Have faith.

And in a singular video, the slack David Bowie will introduce the tune’s stars, and Michael Buerk’s BBC news picture on the tune will moreover characteristic.

Led by Boomtown Rats frontman Bob Geldof and Ultravox’s Midge Ure, the contemporary Band Encourage single seen artists be part of forces in 1984 to serve charities working with starving kids in Ethiopia.

The tune went straight to the tip of the charts that 365 days and at the time held the file because the quickest-promoting single of all time in the UK, promoting a million copies in the principle week on my own.

It remained at number 1 for five weeks and went on to sell more than three million copies.

Cease They Know It is Christmas? became released another time with varied generations of stars over the decades, to elevate money for quite plenty of causes.

In 1989, Stock Aitken and Waterman produced Band Encourage II, featuring gleaming two of the artists from the tune’s first iteration – Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward of Bananarama.

Band Encourage 20 raised funds for Sudan’s Darfur predicament, whereas the 30th anniversary supported these serving to at some stage in the 2014 Ebola crisis.

In celebration of this enormous “instrument of switch”, organisers of the unique model possess acknowledged, producer Trevor Horn has taken the recordings and blended your entire voices “into one seamless whole”.

The Cease They Know It is Christmas – 2024 Final Mix will premiere on UK breakfast radio and streaming on 25 November, the Fortieth anniversary of the day artists went into the recording studio to create the contemporary tune. This would perchance well moreover be released physically on CD and vinyl on 29 November.

This would perchance well characteristic on a compilation moreover alongside with the quite plenty of recordings, plus the Live Encourage Wembley 1985 model.

Artist Sir Peter Blake, 93, who designed the contemporary sleeve – featuring a collage of Christmas card images alongside a hungry child – has returned to create the unique quilt.