Chris Martin has told reporters that when he first heard about the idea of making Band Aid 20 he though it was a "tremendously bad idea". But after watching a report on refugees in Sudan's Darfur, and hearing that Travis' Fran Healy has signed up for the charity record, he changed his mind.
Martin: "My first reaction was that this was a tremendously bad idea, the cheesiest thing I'd ever heard. A couple of weeks went past and I was told Fran was doing it, which made it more interesting. Then I watched the news and saw a report on Darfur. I decided there and then that I was going to do this. I was genuinely moved."