Give and Take That for Haiti

WE JOIN LADS AS THEY SING FOR SI'S SINGLE

We've been to some important events in our time, but witnessing Take That make history has to be up there with the best of them.

Standing next to the boys, with our headphones in our hands, we watched them lay down their vocals for Simon Cowell's Haiti fundraising single.

And cosying up to us at the Henson Studios in LA, where they were recording their chunk of REM's Everybody Hurts, they said they were "privileged" to be taking part. Gary Barlow told us: "As soon as we heard, we were just hoping we'd be asked. It's one of those things you don't even have to think about.

"We've never done anything like this before, but music has been a great way of generating money for good causes."

We were mesmerised by the boys as they lent their vocals to the A-l i s t roster which includes Kylie Minogue, Mariah Carey, Leona Lewis, Chery l C o l e , James Blunt, Mika, Susan Boyle, Bon Jovi, Miley Cyrus, Alexandra Burke, JLS, James Morrison, Rod Stewart, Westlife and Michael Buble.

But it wasn't the lure of the megastars that made Take That sign up.

Jason Orange said: "It's not about, 'I rubbed shoulders with them', except most of them are better singers than us! It's just great people are coming together for something so important."

He went on to urge 3am readers to support the single and help raise funds for the relief effort.

"Be a part of history and help out with t h i s terrible tragedy," he said. "Buy the record, buy several copies." Sadly, scheduling conflicts prevented the lads from recording at the same time as their former bandmate Robbie Williams.

Robbie recorded his lines last night at the same studios with producer John Shanks, 24 hours after his old pals.

The foursome admit they were all choked by images of the earthquake's aftermath, which left over 150,000 people dead and millions more injured.

Mark said: "I've seen pictures on TV, and they're already trying to find their way through it. They're singing, and there seems to be so much hope. They've started the hope, we're just following on from it."

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Fuente: Mirror