Green Day Cover Lennon Classic
The new single from Green Day will be a cover of John Lennon's ‘Working Class Hero’ from the forthcoming charity CD ‘Instant Karma: The Campaign To Save Darfur’. Hear a clip right here.
The track will be released on Warners Records on June 25 and will be the second single to be unveiled from the Amnesty International's CD of John Lennon covers ‘The Campaign To Save Darfur’ (the first was R.E.M.’s version of ‘#9 Dream’).
‘Working Class Hero’ which appears on Lennon's 1970 album ‘John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band’ is considered one of his most overtly political songs, and the Green Day version – for which the band are expected to make a new video - even features a clip of Lennon’s original vocal.
"We wanted to do 'Working Class Hero' because its themes of alienation, class, and social status really resonated with us," Green Day singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong explained, "It's such a raw, aggressive song... We felt we could really sink our teeth into it. I hope we've done him justice."
Hear a clip of the song [listen]
The album has been made to raise awareness and funds to help support Amnesty International's campaign to focus attention on the urgent catastrophe in Darfur, and features songs by The Flaming Lips, Regina Spektor, U2 and Snow Patrol. All the songs are available on iTunes right now.
The full list of contributing artists on the album is:
- Aerosmith ft The Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars 'Give Peace a Chance'
- Avril Lavigne 'Imagine'
- Ben Harper 'Beautiful Boy'
- Big & Rich 'Nobody Told Me'
- The Black Eyed Peas 'Power To the People'
- Christina Aguilera 'Mother'
- Corinne Bailey Rae 'I'm Losing You'
- The Flaming Lips '(Just Like) Starting Over'
- Green Day 'Working Class Hero'
- Jack Johnson 'Imagine'
- Jack's Mannequin featuring Mick Fleetwood 'God'
- Jackson Browne 'Oh, My Love'
- Jaguares 'Gimme Some Truth'
- Jakob Dylan ft Dhani Harrison 'Gimme Some Truth'
- Lenny Kravitz 'Cold Turkey'
- Los Lonely Boys 'Whatever Gets You Through the Night'
- Matisyahu 'Watching the Wheels'
- The Postal Service 'Grow old With Me'
- Regina Spektor 'Real Love'
- R.E.M. '#9 Dream'
- Snow Patrol 'Isolation'
- U2 'Instant Karma'
- Youssou N'Dour 'Jealous Guy'
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