Why Band Aid Was A Success

Band Aid's 'Do They Know It's Christmas' can be criticised for some shaky lyrics, the Bono line of 'Tonight thank God it's them instead of you' always grated even at the time but one thing that cannot be denied is that it was a great success.    
The single was in response to a BBC documentary about the famine in Ethiopia and raised £8m in the first year alone and over the past 40 years the Band Aid Charity has handed out over £150m for projects providing clean water, building schools and libraries and providing training to prevent gender-based violence.
On the release of Band Aid 40 there has been criticism with the main one being how much good did Band Aid do if the situation is the same in 2024 as it was in 1984 which is a ridiculous argument because you could make that argument about anything, the Children in Need charity raiser has been running even longer and we still have Children who are in need in the UK but nobody seems to be asking what's the point of that.
We may as well close all those Food Banks and Charity shops as we are at it if that's how you feel, because, what's the point?
I agree with Bob Geldof who responded to criticism with: 'This little pop song has kept hundreds of thousands if not millions of people alive. People will sleep safer, warmer and cared for tonight because of that miraculous little record' and he is completely correct.
The only other option was to do nothing and just let people die and although Band Aid could not save everyone, it saved the lives of some and that has to be applauded and it is hard to fathom the parallel moral universe where some people think Band Aid has been a bad thing.
The hundreds of thousands if not millions who receive a meal, education or clean drinking water paid for with Band Aid cash who would not have received any otherwise would beg to differ.