This AP News story tells us about a new single just released by Billy Joel titled "Christmas in Fallujah," in which he asked 21-year-old singer-songwriter Cass Dillon to sing the vocals. As the story notes, Joel thought the song should be sung by someone "about a soldier's age," and he wanted to help someone else (Dillon) benefit from his experience, which is a classy thing to do.The proceeds from the song will be donated to Homes For Our Troops, which builds homes for severely wounded veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. The song also just went on sale Tuesday at iTunes, which is good because I can't imagine that it will get any radio airplay (should, though, of course, maybe on some of the "classic" rock stations...???).
Anyway, here it is...
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