Help!: A Day in the Life
| Help!: A Day in the Life | ||||
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| Compilation album by various artists | ||||
| Released | 9 September 2005 | |||
| Recorded | 8–9 September 2005 | |||
| Genre | Various | |||
| Length | 87:12 | |||
| Label | Independiente | |||
| Producer | War Child | |||
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| Pitchfork Media | (5.5/10) |
Help!: A Day in the Life, released in 2005, is a compilation album of music by contemporary artists from Britain and Canada. It was produced by the UK charity War Child to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the original Help album, to raise money to fund the charity's efforts in war-torn countries such as Bosnia and Herzegovina. The name is a conglomeration of the titles of two Beatles songs, "Help!" (featured on the Help! album and film) and "A Day in the Life" (from the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band). On Wednesday 14 September 2005, five days after its release, it broke the record for the fastest-selling download album ever.
Other War Child albums include The Help Album (1995), 1 Love (2002) and War Child Presents Heroes (2009). Whereas the first album had broken records in 1995 by being recorded on Monday 4 September and then released on Saturday 9 September, this time around the album was recorded and made available for purchase via the War Child Music website within thirty hours. Recording began at 12pm BST on Thursday 8 September and was made available for purchase at around 18:10 on Friday 9 September.
Notable contributions to the album include tracks by Radiohead and Manic Street Preachers, both of whom had contributed tracks to the original 1995 album, a cover of Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" by War Child patrons Keane, a song from Gorillaz called "Hong Kong" which was chosen to be played live various times by the band, a last-minute contribution from Coldplay, and a song by Emmanuel Jal, who was involved in the Sudan conflict as a child.
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