11 February 2010

Music for charity...

Some of the UK's biggest musicians rerecorded R.E.M's Everybody Hurts to raise funds for Haiti victims.

The same thing was done by US artists with the song We are the World.

No official video released yet. The original We are the World was a USA for Africa project and it was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, and co-produced by Quincy Jones.

It followed Band Aid's Do They Know it's Christmas?, a UK project in 1984 to raise money for relief of 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia.

This too was remade in 2004, with all money raised going toward famine relief in the Darfur region of Sudan.


love all these kinds of songs but the best for me was "Voices that Care" released in 1991 written by David Foster, Linda Thompson and Peter Cetera, intended to help boost the morale of U.S. troops involved in Operation Desert Storm, as well as supporting the International Red Cross organization.

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