Bono Sings for Iraqi People

U2 frontman Bono will team with opera legend Luciano Pavarotti for a concert to aid Iraqi civilians uprooted by the war. The event, the tenth edition of Pavarotti's annual benefit, is scheduled for the tenor's hometown of Modena, Italy, May 27th.

It will be the second time the two singers have teamed up to benefit war victims. At the 1995 concert, also in Modena, they dueted to raise money for Bosnian children. Bono wrote the track "Miss Sarajevo" for that occasion and then recorded it along with Pavarotti, the members of U2 and their longtime producer Brian Eno for the Passengers album that year.

Proceeds from the May concert will go to the United Nations' High Commission for Refugees, currently spearheading the relief effort in the Middle East.

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Brenda Lee | 1964

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."

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