BBC – Pop stars unite for quake victims: Singers including Sir Cliff Richard and Boy George are recording a charity single to help raise funds for victims of the Asian tsunami. They hope the song will raise more than 2 million pounds for the relief fund. The song, titled Grief Never Grows Old and described as a melancholy ballad, was written by radio DJ Mike Read.
And here’s the true story of how it all came to be:
Mike Read
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True facts:
Together, the people involved are worth hundreds of millions of pounds. They hope to raise two.
If you say ‘Mike Read’ really fast, it sound like ‘my greed’…