British Pop Stars record album to help Tsunami victims

LONDON, UK (Top40 Charts) - Some of the music world's biggest stars are joining forces to release a charity single they hope will raise more than $3 million for the Asian tsunami relief fund.

Singers including Cliff Richard and Boy George are recording a charity single to help raise funds for victims of the Asian tsunami. They hope the song will raise more than 2m pounds for the relief fund.
According to the BBC, the song, entitled Grief Never Grows Old, and described as a melancholy ballad, was written by DJ Mike Read.
Read has asked ex-Boyzone hunk Ronan Keating to sing on the track as well as the Bee Gees' Robin and Barry Gibb, jazz star Jamie Cullum, Olivia Newton-John and Chris Rea. Cliff will record his part in Barbados, while Boy George will sing from New York.

Read explains, "It's a natural home for it because people kept saying to me, 'it's such a good song', but it's such a sad song. I was totally shocked at the enormity and suddenness of the disaster and in tears on seeing the orphaned children wandering aimlessly in search of their parents. I'd only be pleased in terms of what it meant for sales if it got to number one."
All funds raised by the single, which is being produced by Steve Levine, will go to the Disasters Emergency Committee.