Leona and Susan Boyle launch Haiti song (VIDEO)

By Patrick McLennan
( What's on TV )
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Leona and Susan Boyle launch Haiti song (VIDEO)
Leona and Susan Boyle launch Haiti song (VIDEO) (Image credit: Ken McKay)

A charity cover version of REM's Everybody Hurts in aid of the Haiti earthquake victims has been launched by stars including Leona Lewis and Susan Boyle. The song, which also features vocals by Robbie Williams and Cheryl Cole, has debuted simultaneously on the radio and the internet. It also includes contributions from boyband JLS and veteran rocker Rod Stewart, as well as singers Mariah Carey and Kylie Minogue. Pop and TV mogul Simon Cowell teamed up with The Sun newspaper to organise the Helping Haiti fund-raising effort, which should see the single released for download on Sunday and in the shops the following day. The track was recorded in London and Los Angeles. Up to 200,000 people died in the magnitude 7.0 earthquake in Haiti on January 12, with hundreds of thousands more left injured and homeless. Hear the single here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2FEDNAqmmI&hl=en_GB&fs=1

Patrick McLennan
Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.