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It's a new recording of a rewritten version of Midnight Oil's protest song "Beds Are Burning," from 1987.
Duran Duran, the Scorpions, Live Aid organizer Bob Geldof and more than 50 other celebrities will be making the record, to call attention to global warming and a December summit in Copenhagen, according to AFP.
The Copenhagen event, known as COP15, is aimed at drafting a successor to the Kyoto Protocol.
One musician notably absent from the recording will be Midnight Oil's former singer, Peter Garrett, who supports the project but has shied away from the music biz since becoming an environmental minister in Australia.
The Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum, headed by former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan, plans to release the song for free on the Internet in October.
The new song lyrics haven't popped up yet. It will be interesting to see how much press this music story receives, compared to Kanye-Gate.
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