DURAN DURAN are set to record a version of a classic Midnight Oil track in a bid to raise climate change awareness.
The 80s pop band have teamed up with 55 other artists and celebrities - including Sir Bob Geldof, German rockers The Scorpions, French actress Marion Cotillard and singer Youssou N'Dour - to add their voices to the cover of the 1987 song 'Beds are Burning'.
More artists are expected to add their support and talent to the recording before the track is released on October 1, at Paris Fashion Week.
The song will be part of a campaign headed by former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan to highlight environmental issues.
Officials at Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum are organising the launch of the song, and forum director Walter Fust said: "If we do not stop the (greenhouse gas) emissions today, global warming will be still be with us in 40 to 50 years."
The track can be downloaded for free when it is released and the collaboration hope it will help put pressure on world leaders to reach an agreement on tackling climate change at a UN conference in Copenhagen, Denmark in December.
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