Artists Cover Lou Reed For Charity

Chrysalis Records will release a new version of Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" as a U.K. charity single on Nov. 17. The song, re-recorded to back a promotional film for BBC TV currently airing on the network, features 30 international artists, including U2's Bono, Boyzone, David Bowie, Tammy Wynette and Joan Armatrading, as well as Reed himself.

All profits will go to the BBC's annual "Children In Need Appeal," to be telecast Nov. 21. A Chrysalis spokesman says the single "is likely to be released elsewhere" and that the label is offering the single to its overseas affiliates.

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Song Stories

“Oh Sherrie”

Steve Perry | 1984

Steve Perry's girlfriend Sherrie Swafford was actually in the studio when Perry began writing this song--his lone Top Ten hit as a solo act--with two co-writers. The trio began at midnight one night with just "Oh, Sherrie!" and "hold on, hold on." Three hours later, they had a complete song. Swafford, however, had to wait until the next day to hear it. "Sherrie actually got tired and went to bed," Perry said. She also appeared in the video, but their relationship did not hold on for long.

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