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All proceeds from this product support the charity War Child and their mission to protect, educate and stand up for the rights of children in war.Registered charity number 1071659To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the iconic HELP album a new generation of artists came together to create, at the time,the fastest album ever. They recorded Help A Day In The Life on Thursday 8th September 2005 which the record available fordownload just 32 hours later.Bands delivered tracks from all around the world, Damon Albarn cancelled a flight to China so Gorillaz could record their track,Hong Kong. The Kaiser Chiefs recorded a cover version of I Heard It Through the Grapevine whilst on tour in Berlin, Damien Ricedelivered CrossEyed Bear in a break recording his second album in Dublin and the Manic Street Preachers sent in their thirdcontribution to a War Child album, Leviathan, from South Wales. In a late addition to the tracklisting Chris Martin recorded anew vocal and lyrics for How You See The World No. 2 from New York and Tuarweg musicians Tinawiren sent in Cler Achel fromParis.Elbow recorded a new song called Snowball, which lead singer Guy Garvey described as dealing with his outrage at the UKinvolvement in the Iraq conflict. Its first line The biggest mistakes will be forgiven but the snowball of white lies will crush ourhearts. And a significant contribution came from Emmanuel Jal, a former child soldier and refugee from Sudan who donatedthe track Gua.Alongside The Manic Street Preachers and Radiohead, John Squire also returned from the original HELP album to design thecover of Help A Day which also features illustrations from Paul Smith and Duncan Lloyd of Maximo Park.Help A Day In The Life will be available in classic black vinyl, red vinyl exclusive to War Child Records D2C store.Help A Day In The Life is part of a series of four rereleases by War Child Records making the amazing music artists havedonated to the charity available on DSPs and vinyl for the first time. All proceeds from these releases will directly fund WarChilds life saving work with children affected by conflict.Side AColdplay ndash How You See The World No. 2Razorlight ndash Kirbys HouseRadiohead ndash I Want None Of ThisKeane and Faultline ndash Goodbye Yellow Brick RoadEmmanuel Jal ndash GuaSide BGorillaz ndash Hong KongManic Street Preachers ndash LeviathanKaiser Chiefs ndash I Heard It Through The GrapevineDamien Rice ndash CrossEyed BearSide CThe Magic Numbers ndash Gone Are The DaysTinariwen ndash Cler AchelThe Coral ndash It Was NothingMylo ndash Mars Needs WomenMaximo Park ndash WastelandSide DElbow ndash SnowballBloc Party ndash The PresentHard Fi ndash Help Me PleaseThe Go Team ndash Phantom BroadcastBabyshambles ndash From Bollywood To Battersea Various Artists Double-Vinyl is available for home delivery from Vinyl Records London, only £26 +P&P