Marking the 25th anniversary of its original release, this is the remarkable story of the legendary War Child charity album HELP – told with contributions from members of Radiohead, Manic Street Preachers, Salad, The Charlatans, Portishead, Blur and Paul Weller.
So all the songs have been recorded, and that's job done, right? Most definitely not right. Brian Eno has to bring the whole project together, tapes need to be flown across the world, CDs need to be manufactured and rushed into shops and then there's an all-star launch. This week we see how that...
Published 10/07/20
As we continue our journey through the tracklisting of the HELP album we meet Neneh Cherry, James Dean Bradfield from Manic Street Preachers, Blur, Paul Weller, Terrorvision and Salad. Plus we hear some rather fine music and we find out how War Child got The KLF and Sir Paul McCartney on their...
Published 09/29/20
It’s one minute past midnight on Monday September 4th 1995. All around the world recording studios are humming into life and some of the best bands of the era have just 24 hours to record a song intended for an album that could save lives. In this episode some those groups remember that day -...
Published 09/22/20