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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“Tonight's the Night”

The Shirelles | 1960

The lead cut and title track from this girl group's debut album, "Tonight's the Night" was written by 19-year-old bandmember Shirley Owens, who sings lead, and producer Luther Dixon. The band from Passaic, New Jersey met in high school, first calling themselves the Pequellos. The song's frank thoughts about sexual and emotional surrender was racy for the time, but that didn't stop the Chiffons from cutting a similar version immediately after the original came out. "We were the first female group to write some of our own material," band member Beverly Lee recalls. "We did have some say-so in our writing."

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