Green Day will contribute a cover of John Lennon's "Working Class Hero" to the forthcoming CD Instant Karma: The Campaign To Save Darfur, proceeds from which help support Amnesty International's campaign to focus attention on the urgent catastrophe in Darfur, Sudan.

Working Class Hero was released on May 1, 2007 and is available for purchase through iTunes. The full album, Instant Karma, will be released June 12, 2007.

"Working Class Hero," which appears on Lennon's 1970 album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, is considered one of the former Beatle's most overtly political songs, with its themes of class and social alienation.

Green Day will be making a video for the single and will be directed by Sam Bayer. Sam also directed all the American Idiot music videos. Shooting for the video is expected to begin the week of April 30th.

The first single off the album, #9 Dream, was recorded by R.E.M. You can find a link to the song below.

We invite you to discuss the recording on our forum:
http://www.greendaycommunity.org/Forum/index.php?showtopic=49526

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Official Site - instantkarma.org

Working Class Hero - iTunes (purchase the song)
 

Forum Discussion - Green Day Community.org

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Updated: May 4, 2007