BBC Radio 2's Allstars including Cher, Kylie and Robbie Williams to release Stop Crying Your Heart Out cover for BBC Children in Need
Details of a star-studded line-up behind the 2020 charity single for BBC Children in Need have been announced.
BBC Radio 2's Allstars will release a cover of Oasis' Stop Crying Your Heart Out, released through Decca Records on Friday November 13. SCYHO will be premiered on Zoe Ball's BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show that morning, with the official video being revealed during the annual appeal show on BBC One that evening.
Update (Nov.13) Listen to the track below:
The line-up for the charity collective is: Bryan Adams, Izzy Bizu, Cher, Clean Bandit, Mel C, Jamie Cullum, Ella Eyre, Paloma Faith, Rebecca Ferguson, Jess Glynne, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Lenny Kravitz, KSI, Lauv, Ava Max, Kylie Minogue, James Morrison, Gregory Porter, Nile Rodgers, Jack Savoretti, Jay Sean, Anoushka Shankar, Robbie Williams and Yola. The backing track will be performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra with Grace Chatto and Sheku Kanneh-Mason on cello and Anoushka Shankar on sitar.
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'Stop Crying Your Heart Out' from The @BBCRadio2 Allstars is this year's @BBCCiN single - out this Friday! 🎶
— BBC Children in Need (@BBCCiN) November 10, 2020
👉 Preorder & donate now at https://t.co/6kLi2jV49t
🔊 Hear the first play on @ZoeTheBall's Friday morning show#ChildrenInNeed
BBC Radio 2 are not the first BBC station to unite some of music's biggest names this year for charity. BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge Allstars featuring Dua Lipa, Chris Martin and Rita Ora took a cover of Foo Fighters' Times Like These all the way to Number 1 in May, with proceeds split between Comic Relief and Children in Need. Paloma Faith and Jess Glynne are the only acts to be part of both line-ups.
Head of Music at BBC Radio 2 Jeff Smith curated the allstar line-up, with vocal contributions coming in from across the world, including from Cher in Malibu, Robbie Williams in Switzerland, and Yola in Nashville.
The reimagined Stop Crying Your Heart Out was produced by Mark Taylor and Brian Rawling who have produced chart-topping hits for the likes of Cher, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Lionel Richie, and Britney Spears. The song's visual was directed by Phill Deacon who produced the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge Allstars video.
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Rob Parkinson
Yawn yet again a load of stars doing a cover version as opposed to actually contributing to making a phenomenal track, disappointing as ever with all that talent and they can't even produce a new song.
Simon Dover
OR, A group of busy people giving there time and names to raising money for an amazing cause in one of the worse years a few generations have ever known. What's you're contribution kid?
Rob Parkinson
Not that it is any of your business but I guarantee you I have contributed far more than the majority of people towards this pandemic. A group of busy people? Perhaps you should check the social media of some of these artists to see how 'busy' they actually are. Look into the acts of some of these artists who have done tax evasion, artists like this clearly are only in this for the publicity. Obviously not all as some will genuinely be trying to help but think back to the 80s when the technology was nothing like today but Bob Geldof, Midge Ure and Co managed to get a load of artists to come to a studio and record a song that they had written in less than an hour and look at how well that performs and that really was for charity. In modern times why can't any of these artists say yeah ill even write a new song for you? Too scared of it not getting as good a response as a song that is already known? Or perhaps because they think the track will be too good and would rather reap the rewards themselves? Either way even though the track will get downloaded plenty of times by people who won't even listen to it and it will get overplayed on radio 1 & radio 2 you would help the charity far better by donating the money direct, they get all the cash that way rather than just the proceeds but then I guess people feel better helping a charity knowing they have something in return, a song they don't even listen to but hey you helped a good cause.