A new version of John Lennon's "Give Peace A Chance" will be released next month to support music education in schools.
The organization Peacebeliver announced today the single will be available Dec. 8 for purchase on both www.peacebeliever.com and iTunes.
The project involves more than 20 musicians and more than 100 children around the world on the updated version of the song, which includes a new verse in Spanish. .
Those involved include Cuban band Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club, Newton Faulkner; Supertramp's Roger Hodgson; 10cc's Graham Gouldman and Eugene Hideaway; Australian singer Nik Phillips; Omara Portuondo, who starred in Wim Wenders' documentary "Buena Vista Social Club" and Herb Armstrong, grandson of jazz musician Louis Armstrong.
Others involved include Natalie Pa'A Pa, lead singer with Australia's Blue King Brown; ARIA Award winner Katie Noonan; Australian children's TV host and Australian Children's Music Foundation founder Don Spencer; Australian country music singer-songwriter Ange Whiteley with her four children, and 80 students from Byron Bay Steiner School and Matraville Soldier's Settlement Public School.
All proceeds from the single will go to Peacebeliever, an organization to support music education in schools.
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