My apologies for not advising this sooner- what WAS I thinking?
The “Helping Haiti’ video was released yesterday. At 6 minutes in length, the video features artists such as Robbie Williams, Jon Bon Jovi, Mariah Carey, Rod Stewart, Susan Boyle and James Blunt recording the song interspersed with scenes of the destruction caused by the 7 point earthquake that struck Haiti Jan. 12.
This moving rendition of REM’s ‘Everybody Hurts’ can be viewed on Youtube.
According to Simon Cowel, Britain’s Prime Minster Gordon Brown asked him to produce a charity recording within 10 days. I guess the time pressure forced him to throw the dart to choose that song