Green Day cover of John Lennon song available on iTunes

Green Day's newly recorded cover of John Lennon's "Working Class Hero" will be available for purchase through iTunes starting Monday (April 30th), with all proceeds from sales of the track going to Amnesty International. The band will also shoot a video for the song, which comes off an album called Instant Karma: The Campaign to Save Darfur, a tribute to the late Beatle that will benefit Amnesty International's campaign to end the Darfur genocide.

Other artists contributing their versions of Lennon songs to the collection include Snow Patrol, R.E.M., Christina Aguilera, Jack Johnson, Corinne Bailey Rae and the Postal Service. Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, is donating all publishing royalties from the album to the Darfur campaign. Instant Karma will arrive in stores on June 12th.

This is Green Day's second charity recording in the past 12 months. Last summer, the band collaborated on a single with U2 to raise money for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Earlier this month, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and his family helped Habitat For Humanity to build new houses for New Orleans residents left homeless by Katrina.
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