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Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" is getting a 30th anniversary makeover, with a new version featuring the likes of Ellie Goulding, Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran, Bastille, Sinead O'Connor and Bono, the latter of whom appeared on the original.

Bob Geldof, who co-wrote the track, revealed Monday that a new, Paul Epworth-produced edition will be recorded this weekend in London to raise funds to fight Ebola in West Africa.

"For 30 years, we've been boring people to death about the great inequalities of the world, whereby 50 percent still live on two dollars a day. That's disgraceful. It's ridiculous, and it's unnecessary," Geldof said in a press conference on Monday. "And what they were dying of in 1984 was of course hunger, but they died essentially because they were poor. We know we can contain Ebola; we have the doctors, the nurses, medicines and state systems. We have money. They're dying again because they are extremely poor. That is radically unacceptable."

Quincy Jones will also oversee an American version for the same cause.