Help: A Day In The Life CD - Import

This release of 20 songs by such famous acts as Radiohead, Bloc Party, Gorillaz, and Keane, was recorded as a benefit to children in war torn areas of the world.

In 1994, Brit-pop heavyweights like Blur, Oasis, and Suede contributed to a charity album that raised millions of dollars for children affected by the war in Bosnia. In 2005 the War Child organization has once again tapped the country's contemporary music scene, this to support battle-scarred and otherwise damaged children everywhere. Participants in Help: A Day in the Life include Radiohead (the haunting, previously unreleased "I Want None of It"), Coldplay (a remixed "How You See the World"), and Damien Rice (the typically lovely "Cross-Eyed Bear"), as well as Sudanese MC and former child soldier conscript Emmanuel Jal, who contributes the exuberant, hopeful "Gua." Great Britain's bright young breed is also represented in Maximo Park's "Wasteland," "Gone Are the Days" from Magic Numbers, and Go! Team's "Phantom Broadcast." Elsewhere on Help: A Day in the Life -- Keane drifting through a thorny "Yellow Brick Road," Kaiser Chiefs putting some weird herky-jerky spunk into "Heard It Through the Grapevine," and Bloc Party with "The Present." ~ Johnny Loftus

This is the follow up to 2000's War Child charity album. All of the 22-tracks are exclusive and previously unreleased. Highlights include, a new version of 'How You See the World' by Coldplay. The track had been previously available in Japan (as an exclusive bonus track on X & Y), but the band remixed it in September 2005 to create a new version with different lyrics for this release. Babyshambles were also a last-minute addition to the line-up of 'Help: A Day In The Life' and have contributed, 'Bollywood To Battersea'. Other hightlights include; Radiohead `I Want None of It', Antony and the Johnsons `Happy Xmas (War is Over)', Belle & Sebastian `The Eighth Station of the Cross Kebab House', The Go! Team `Phantom Broadcast', Keane and Faultline `Goodbye Yellow Brick Road', Bloc Party `The Present' and many more! Independiente.

Liner Note Author: Emmanuel Jal.

Illustrators: Paul "Scooby" Smith; Duncan Lloyd.