One World Project was a musical supergroup which recorded a song for the 2004 Asian tsunami relief effort. It featured

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, Steve Winwood,

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, Brian Wilson,

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, Dewey Bunnell,

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and Robin Gibb on vocals (in order of vocal appearance) with Jeffrey Foskett and Randell Kirsch singing harmony vocals. The others musicians and celebrities on the

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were Rick Wakeman,

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, Gary Moore (guitar solo), Bill Wyman, Hank Linderman, Jon Anderson, Celina Cherry and

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. It was accompanied by the National Children's Orchestra who were delighted to be asked to be involved in the project at only a week's notice. The song, titled "

Grief Never Grows Old "Grief Never Grows Old" is a song written by Mike Read and recorded by the music supergroup One World Project in 2005 to raise money for relief from the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami in Asia. It was released on 24 January 2005 and re ...

", was recorded in January 2005 and released in February 2005, reaching #4 on the

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