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John Cage cover brings silence to Christmas
Some of the country’s top musicians have teamed up to cover avant-garde composer John Cage’s 4' 33" – a track that famously consists of nothing but silence.
More than 40 performers, including Mr Hudson, Billy Bragg, Orbital, Suggs and Enter Shikari, attended the recording earlier this week, with the challenge of keeping silent for 273 seconds.
The charity project, which started as a Facebook campaign dubbed Cage Against The Machine, could keep the UK's forthcoming X-Factor winner from the top spot. Last year, a similar campaign saw Rage Against The Machine's Killing In The Name Of sell more than 500,000 copies and win one of the most competitive battles in chart history.
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Source: The Guardian 
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Brings to mind the song by Todd Snider about the band that became more famous when they wouldn't play, and they were invited onto MTV unplugged where they refused to play acoustical versions of the electric songs they had refused to record in the first place - 'Talking Seattle Grunge Blues'
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