Editing Band Aid (band) (section)

==Criticism==

===Claims of self-righteousness===
In 1986, the anarchist band [[Chumbawamba]] released the album ''[[Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records]]'', as well as an EP entitled "We Are the World?", jointly recorded with US band A State of Mind, both of which were intended as anti-capitalist critiques of the Band Aid/[[Live Aid]] phenomenon.<ref>{{Citation|title=Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records - Chumbawamba {{!}} Songs, Reviews, Credits {{!}} AllMusic|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/pictures-of-starving-children-sell-records-mw0000944036|language=en|access-date=2021-11-21}}</ref> They argued that the record was primarily a cosmetic [[Situationist International|spectacle]], designed to draw attention away from the real political causes of world hunger.{{citation needed|date=November 2014}}

In a 1985 ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]'' interview, [[Morrissey]] (who was not invited to participate in Band Aid) gave his views about the song:
<blockquote>'I'm not afraid to say that I think Band Aid was diabolical. Or to say that I think Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Many people find that very unsettling, but I'll say it as loud as anyone wants me to. In the first instance the record itself was absolutely tuneless. One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of Great Britain. It was an awful record considering the mass of talent involved. And it wasn't done shyly. It was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.'<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Garfield |first=Simon |title=This Charming Man: No SEX No DRUGS No ROCK 'N' ROLL and Definitely No ROYALTY! |journal=Time Out |date=13 March 1985 |url=http://foreverill.com/interviews/1985/charming.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130526222643/http://foreverill.com/interviews/1985/charming.htm |archive-date=26 May 2013 }}</ref></blockquote>