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Yorke and Ronson to appear on silent charity single
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 19 October 2010
Thom Yorke and Mark Ronson are amongst the contributors to an unusual charity single being released next month by The Royal British Legion. Entitled ‘Two Minute Silence’, the track will feature, you guessed it, two minutes of silence, and is being released to coincide with Remembrance Day.
As well as Yorke and Ronson, Bryan Ferry, Bob Hoskins, David Tennant, Andy Murray and that David Cameron will be shutting up for the track. Royal British Legion Director General Chris Simpkins said: “Rather than record a song, we felt the UK public would recognise the poignancy of silence and its clear association with remembrance”.
The track will be available for download from 7 Nov. More information at www.facebook.com/poppysingle2010.
Of course, if this single is a success, it might skupper plans to rival this year’s ‘X-Factor’ winner in the Christmas number one race by John Cage’s silent track ‘4’33″‘, a campaign that would be brilliantly called Cage Against The Machine.
