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The estate of John Lennon has authorized a new digital release of the song "Give Peace A Chance" to benefit the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (PBF). It's available for downloading through iTunes for $1.29. Net proceeds generated by the sale (through December 31) will go directly to the PBF.
The UN Peace Building Commission and Peacebuilding Fund were established after the 2005 World Summit to provide fast and relevant funding to countries recovering from war, so they can build a sustainable peace. It currently supports 100 initiatives in 14 countries and relies on voluntary funding. To date, the PBF has collected and distributed more than $300 million.
John Lennon originally recorded his trademark song forty years ago, when he and his wife Yoko Ono turned their honeymoon into a "Bed-In for Peace." Since then, the sing-a-long chorus has become a fixture at public gatherings for peace. In 1989, East and West Germans happily chanted the tune while tearing down the Berlin Wall. When Paul McCartney performed in Tel Aviv, Israel, for the first time in September 2008, he began singing the song, but then stopped and let the audience take over the chant. And by an odd coincidence, last week's episode of the popular television series "Grey's Anatomy" was also entitled, "Give Peace a Chance."
All in all, that's not bad airplay for a "protest" song which includes random references to "Tommy Smothers," "masturbation and flagellation," "banisters and canisters," and ends with a verse proclaiming "Hare Krisna, Hare Krisna."
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