Artist:Green Day
Song:Working Class Hero
Album:Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur
Green Day recorded John Lennon's Working Class Hero for this 2007 album produced by Amnesty International to benefit their campaign to ease the crisis in Darfur. It qualifies as a discography orphan because Working Class Hero was released as a single. It charted and there was a video. The key to this album was Yoko Ono donated Lennon's songwriting and publishing royalties to Amnesty International's Make Some Noise campaign. The album has two CDs and it's available as a budget CD. Green Day performed Working Class Hero on the season finale of American Idol. It reached #53 on the Billboard Hot 100 and then it got a Grammy nomination. It does not appear on a Green Day album. So the only way to get it is from the Instant Karma album and it is a charity album. Other artists on the album include U2, R.E.M., Aerosmith and plenty of others. Warner Bros. distributes it. It may be Green Day's only discography orphan. Songs have appeared in films but none have charted. So I don't know if any would qualify. Here's the video for Working Class Hero by Green Day.
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