On Monday, September 4, 1995, some of the biggest names in British music - Radiohead, Blur, Oasis, Suede and Manic Street Preachers among them - assembled in recording studios across the UK to record one-off songs for a unique charity compilation album.
The Help Album was conceived to raise funds for the UK charity War Child, which aimed to provide emergency support to tens of thousands of children trapped in combat zones, with particular focus on those suffering as a result of the Bosnian War which raged from 1992 to 1995. What made the project unique was that every song on the record would be taped in a single day, and the resulting record would be racked in record shops across Britain within a week.
