BRITAIN’S BROWN ASKS COWELL TO RECORD HAITI SINGLE
SIMON COWELL has put his powers to good use by organising a charity singl= e to help raise funds for the ravaged nation of Haiti - following a reque= st from Britain’s Prime Minister GORDON BROWN.
The American Idol mogul is lining up stars including Lady Gaga, Cheryl = Cole, Beyonce and Robbie Williams to sing on the cover track, and he’s vo= wed to send the proceeds to the victims of last week’s (12Jan10) devastat= ing earthquake.
Cowell is now rushing to get the project in motion, with the backing of= Britain’s leader Brown and the U.K.’s best-selling newspaper, The Sun.
He says, "We made a decision today. We had a request from the prime min= ister and the Sun newspaper - would we put a record together? "We haven’t got an awful lot of time, but we are going to do something = and attempt to raise as much money as possible. I’ve got to try and get i= t all together in about 48 hours.
"(I want) As many people as possible, whoever we’ve got available is go= ing to be on the record."
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