Lori Majewski

Liam Payne, singer with British boy band One Direction, leaves the recording of the Band Aid 30 charity single in London on November 15, 2014.

Musicians hope One Direction and a classic Christmas song can help fight Ebola

November 19, 2014Music

“Do They Know It’s Christmas?” raised millions of dollars to fight famine in Ethiopia in the 1980s. Now the song is coming back with a new group of stars and new lyrics to try and do the same for the Ebola epidemic.

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