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Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin and Page and Plant fame has recorded a moving cover version of Elbow's 'The Blanket of Night' for a charity album aiming to highlight the plight of refugees across North Africa, Europe and beyond.
'The Blanket of Night' appeared on Elbow's 2014 album The Take Off and Landing of Everything, with the song featuring lyrics about a refugee couple travelling across perilous seas: "The ocean that bears us from our home / Could save us or take us for its own / The danger that life should lead us here / My angel, could I have steered us clear?"
The new record, The Long Road, will also feature tracks by Kindness, Scroobius Pip, Tinariwen and the Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars, with many of the musicians working with the British Red Cross. Watch a preview of the new album and below:
Speaking about the refugee crisis currently engulfing many parts of Europe and the wider world, Plant told the British Red Cross: "We have a worldwide international catastrophe – talking about it is one thing, doing something about it is another. The position we are in, it's paramount we all do our best one way or another to help."
"I wanted to get involved because it's a story worth telling," said record's producer Ethan Johns. "The idea is to educate people a little more about what people go through, to put their stories in some kind of context. They're not just bodies getting off a boat".
The album, The Long Road, will be released Friday 4 March 2016.
