Dec. 23—SIBLEY, Miss. — “Stop, Rick. I think we are passing it.” It was the day after Christmas. My brother, Rick, and I were rolling along the back roads of Sibley, a very small community on U.S. Route 61, 14 miles south of Natchez, Mississippi, our hometown. Every now and then, a rifle shot or […]
In 1984, new wave’s elite came together as the supergroup Band Aid to record “Do They Know It’s Christmas?,” a benefit single organized by Boomtown Rats frontman Bob Geldof in response to a BBC report about a famine in Ethiopia. The instant seasonal classic, which featured Sting, George Michael, Bono, Boy George, Duran Duran, Bananarama, […]