SHORT TAKES : Record to Support Boat People
Rock stars will record a remake of Rod Stewart’s hit song “Sailing” to protest the forced repatriation of Vietnamese boat people from Hong Kong.
Guitarist Steve Hackett, formerly with Genesis, said the musicians include Brian May of Queen, Bonnie Tyler, Curt Smith of Tears for Fears, Mike Rutherford, Jack Bruce and the Sutherland Brothers, who originally recorded the song before it became a hit for Stewart in 1975.
“This will be a protest song, not a charity record,” Hackett said. The song will be recorded during the Christmas holidays and released next year, and money raised from the recording will go to refugee charities, he said.
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