iTunes Music Alert: Is This Guinness World's Record for Longest Published Song Now the Shortest Path to Saving Lives in the Middle East?

    DENVER, CO, November 06, 2014 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Mike Peters, the front man for the Welsh rock band, The Alarm possesses a legacy that transcends music. A two-time cancer survivor, Peters co-founded the Love Hope Strength Foundation, the largest music-based cancer charity in the world. Now, thanks to Peters, their organization's slogan, "saving lives one concert at a time" could well become "saving lives one download at a time."

All because his latest creation, "The Scriptures" recently broke a Guinness World's Record for the longest officially released song at 103 minutes, 75 verses and 6.247 words. To date, "The World's Longest Officially Released Song" has already raised more than its intended fundraising target.

In June 2014, Mike Peters journeyed around the world to collaborate with musicians and songwriters from all walks of life to write and record "The Scriptures." What started with a single guitar chord recorded at Bardo Studios, Tel Aviv grew to recording sessions in Wales, Los Angeles, Austin, New York and Boston before being completed at London's Abbey Road Studio 2 in late September 2014.

Funds raised from the sales of the recording will be donated to the Unrelated Marrow Donor Registry of Hadassah in the Holy Land. This facility, led by Dr. Amal Bishara, helps find life-saving matches throughout the entire Middle East for those individuals with blood cancer and are in desperate need of a transplant to survive.

As Peters shared, "Dr. Amal and her team do similar work to Love Hope Strength. They're the world's first Arab Donor Registry. They have signed up over 20,000 people. More importantly, they've found that Arab donors help save the lives of Jewish people, too. They are literally building bridges of peace and saving lives in the Middle East."

"The Scriptures" will help raise funds for Dr. Amal and her team to continue to cheek swab people and build on the goodwill the Hadassah registry is generating.

All collaborators were sought through a PledgeMusic campaign. This allowed the public to write lyrics or make a musical contribution within their own environment and send it back over the internet.

Peters added, "The finished work is more than a song, more than an album and more than a recording by a group of musicians. It is as human as humanity will allow, crafted from the imaginations of hundreds of people from all walks of life and all corners of the globe."

Over 200 musicians and lyric writers joined Mike Peters and The Alarm. This includes contributions from members of Spandau Ballet, Fastball, Gene of Loves, Jezebel, The Cult, The Mission, The Jam and numerous other musicians and voices from around the world. In fact, everyone who contributed to this historic recording is listed in the official credits and recognized as a true official world record holder.

"The Scriptures" is available for purchase now via iTunes digital download and as a Double CD format complete with exclusive comprehensive lyric book and formal credits detailing all 2200 contributors.

To help save lives in the Middle East while owning a piece of music history, 'The Scriptures" is now available for purchase via iTunes as well as via this web site: http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/thescriptures

For media inquiries, to arrange for an interview with Mike Peters or more information on Love Hope Strength's mission, please contact Lanie Odom at 972-481-0760.

About:
Mike Peters is co-founder of the Love Hope Strength Foundation, the world's largest music-driven cancer charity. The organization has been part of or produced over 1500 events across the globe. Their supporters include some of the worlds biggest artist including Robert Plant, Linkin Park, Kenny Chesney and Enrique Iglesias These events occurred across six continents and have helped add 100,000 people to the International Marrow Registry, including 1300 matched donors.

With "The Scriptures" Mike Peters helped create and produce the world's longest song according to Guinness World Book Records. A documentary is currently in production covering Peters' career in music and cancer treatment success. Mike Peters will share his remarkable story while speaking and performing at the World Cancer Congress in Melbourne, Australia on December 6th 2014. http://www.lovehopestrength.org

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