The HELP Album (2020)

Track list

Side 1

1. Fade Away

   Studio version

2. Oh Brother

   Studio version

3. Love Spreads

   Studio version

4. Lucky

   Studio version

5. Adnan

   Studio version

Side 2

1. Mourning Air

   Studio version

2. Fake The Aroma

   Studio version

3. Shipbuilding

   Studio version

4. Time For Livin'

   Studio version

5. Sweetest Truth (Show No Fear)

   Studio version

Side 3

1. Ode to Billie Joe

   Studio version

2. Searchlights

   Studio version

3. Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head

   Studio version

4. Tom Petty Loves Veruca Salt

   Studio version

5. The Magnificent

   Studio version

Side 4

1. Message to Crommie

   Studio version

2. Dream a Little Dream of Me

   Studio version

3. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

   Studio version

4. Eine Kleine Lift Musik

   Studio version

5. Come Together

   Written by Lennon - McCartney

   3:33 • Studio version • B

   Paul McCartney : Backing vocals, Guitar, PianoPerformed by : The Smokin' Mojo Filters Paul Weller : Guitar, Vocals Noel Gallagher : Guitar Brendan Lynch : Producer Carleen Anderson : Backing vocals Steve White : Drums Max Heyes : Engineer Steve Craddock : Guitar

   Session Recording: Sep 04, 1995 • Studio EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road

From warchild.org.uk:

To celebrate the album’s 25th anniversary, we’re so excited to announce that HELP will be re-issued on limited edition vinyl, and made available on digital and streaming platforms for the first time ever! Pre-order a record today.

The iconic album, originally launched in 1995, features tracks from Oasis and Friends, The Boo Radleys, The Stone Roses, Radiohead, Orbital, Portishead, Massive Attack, Suede, The Charlatans vs. The Chemical Brothers, Stereo MCs, Sinéad O’Connor, the Levellers, Manic Street Preachers, Terrovision, The One World Orchestra, Planet 4 Folk Quartet, Terry Hall and Salad, Neneh Cherry and Trout, Blur and The Smokin’ Mojo Filters (Paul McCartney, Paul Weller and Noel Gallagher).

What is HELP?

HELP is a charity album launched in response to the Bosnian War. In 1995 the inter-ethnic conflict had taken the lives of 250,000 people and displaced a further two million. Those fleeing the bloodshed – ordinary men, women and children – were left with nothing, and little hope their lives would ever return to normal.

Tony Crean, International Marketing Manager at Go! Discs, along with music industry experts Anton Brookes, Terri Hall and Rob Partridge wante to do something to support families – and fast. They put their heads and contacts together to create the groundbreaking HELP album, in aid of War Child.

The support from the artists was incredible. Taking time out from their busy schedules, they recorded the entire record in just 24 hours. In a pre-digital time when the only conflict the UK music industry cared about was Blur versus Oasis, even they were willing to come together to support some of the world’s most vulnerable children.

“We’ll put aside our differences for the cause – and it’s the only time you’ll see the two of us agreeing on anything” – Noel Gallagher said in an interview.

The album was a huge success.

With such a legendary line-up, how could it not be? In a time before The Cloud, iPhones and email, HELP raised over £1.25 million to transform the lives of children caught up in the Bosnian War.

A quarter of a century after its original release, we’re relaunching the HELP album to raise vital funds for War Child’s lifesaving work responding to the Coronavirus pandemic.