Working Class Hero

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== About ==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," 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 - singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tré Cool - will also shoot an accompanying video for the track.

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=== Music Video ===Green Day - singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tré Cool - will also shoot an accompanying video for the track.

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== Trivia ==The punk trio will make their John Lennon cover 'Working Class Hero' available as a download as part of a charity campaign to help people suffering in the Darfur region of Africa

Green Day's single, which features some of Lennon's original vocals, is part of a forthcoming covers album produced by charity Amnesty International, entitled 'Instant Karma: The Campaign To Save Darfur'.

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