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| Music in the News
Thursday 20 September 2001
Vocabulary from the world of music. Listen to and read the story then find explanations of difficult words below.
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Jackson's new record to aid attack victims
Summary: Michael Jackson has called together a group of some of the world's leading pop stars to record a song in aid of the families of victims of last week's suicide attacks in the United States.
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| | The News 
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| | | Among others, Michael Jackson will be joined by Britney Spears, Destiny's Child, Justin Timberlake of 'N Sync and Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys on the song 'What More Can I Give'. They aim to raise around $50m for survivors and families of victims of the attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington.
In a statement, Jackson said: "There is a tremendous need for relief dollars right now, and through this effort each one of us can play an immediate role in helping comfort so many people."
Jackson's initiative is reminiscent of his work on the all-star American charity single 'We Are The World'. He co-wrote and performed the song in 1985 to aid victims of the famine in Ethiopia. Scores of US pop stars participated on the song which raised $65m for the USA for Africa relief fund.
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| | | to raise
if you raise money for a charity or a cause, you ask people for money to support it
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| | | relief dollars
relief money is the money provided for people who are poor or hungry, or have been affected by a disaster
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| | | through this effort
by doing this (a formal expression)
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| | | play an immediate role in helping
help directly and without delay
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| | | initiative
an initiative is an important act intended to help solve a problem
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| | | reminiscent of
if one thing is reminiscent of another, it reminds you of it (a formal expression)
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| | | co-wrote
wrote together with others, was one of the authors
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| | | scores of
if you are talking about scores of things or people, you are emphasizing that there are very many of them
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