So, did you hear it? No? Well, neither did we, but there's a guide to who sings what at the bottom of today's Daily, so you can probably pretty much imagine what it sounds like without ever getting yourself a copy (except, of course, you're going to buy a copy because it's all in aid of charity).
Anyway, Chris Moyles gave the new version of 'Do They Know It's Christmas' by Band Aid 20 its first radio play this morning - with various participants in the project due to hand deliver copies of the track to other radio studios throughout the day. The video will be debuted on BBC1 on Thursday night complete with introduction by Madonna.
All the talk regarding the track still centres on the line "Well, tonight thank God it's them instead of you" - sung by Bono on the original, and on this new version. As previously reported, Robbie Williams last week told reporters that several singers wanted that line this time round, but Bono put his foot down: "Everyone wanted it. But before anyone could start getting an ego about it, Bono just said, 'That's my line and I'm doing it - so the rest of you can fuck off.' That settled it!"
However Bono has said he was never keen on the line, and that it was Bob Geldof who talked him into singing it, both in 1984, and now for the new version. The U2 singer is quoted as saying: "I hated singing it in the first place. I really didn't want to sing it again."
However the Darkness' Justin Hawkins, who also recorded a version of the line during the recording this weekend, tells a story more in line with Robbie. He is quoted as saying: "I did it and I did it better than him - so, his management kicked up a stink - it obviously means a lot to him". Ah well, whatever.
Elsewhere in Band Aid news, and bookies Ladbrokes have revealed an unnamed record executive (go on, which one of you was it?) tried to put a £1 million bet on the charity track being Christmas number one. So confident is everyone that 'Do They Know It's Christmas' will be Christmas number one (though - it is being released quite early - so we might yet be surprised) , the odds being offered are currently a rubbish 1:5. However, as said record executive pointed out, that would still mean he would get £200,000 in winnings. Though, as the bookies pointed out, that is why they would be mad to ever take the bet in the first place. A spokesman for Ladbrokes said: "The customer tried to stake £1 million on Band Aid at odds of 1/5 but we turned down the bet. We offered him the opportunity place a smaller bet but he said it was £1 million or nothing. If he were to have had the bet he would have won £200,000, taking home £1.2 million. He remarked that it was better interest than that offered by a bank or building society. We didn't take the bet as it seems like it will take a miracle for it not to go to number one. The customer wishes to stay anonymous at this stage."