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U2 frontman Bono has revealed he "didn't feel worthy" enough to resing his famous line from the Band Aid hit.
As reported yesterday, Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins also recorded a version of the classic line - "well tonight thank God it's them instead of you" - but producer Midge Ure ultimately decided to go with Bono's new version instead.
"I sang the whole song just to remind myself why we were all there," said Bono today. "But they were after one line. And it's a line I really, really wasn't comfortable with."
He added that Ure and Travis singer Fran Healy eventually talked him into it.
"I didn't like singing it in the first place and I wasn't keen on singing it again - it's such a big line. But Fran and Nigel said, 'You have to sing this line.' I agreed to it. It's important."
As reported yesterday, Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins also recorded a version of the classic line - "well tonight thank God it's them instead of you" - but producer Midge Ure ultimately decided to go with Bono's new version instead.
"I sang the whole song just to remind myself why we were all there," said Bono today. "But they were after one line. And it's a line I really, really wasn't comfortable with."
He added that Ure and Travis singer Fran Healy eventually talked him into it.
"I didn't like singing it in the first place and I wasn't keen on singing it again - it's such a big line. But Fran and Nigel said, 'You have to sing this line.' I agreed to it. It's important."
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