Prince William + bands launch '1969: Key To Change' - Centrepoint charity cover album

Prince William helps launch an exclusive covers album to celebrate Centrepoint's 40th anniversary

Photo: from back left Ben de Lisi (fashion designer), Lisa Maxwell (actress, TV presenter and Centrepoint ambassador), Jools Holland, Galen Ayers (Siskin), Prince William, Jake Evans (Bad Lieutenant), Tom Chapman (Bad Lieutenant), Dan Gillespie (The Feeling) and Sara Cox DJ and Centrepoint ambassador. Front row from left to right - four young people from Centrepoint: Samia Meah, Bobo Diangana, Krystal Clarke and kneeling behind her Tresor Kiambu.

Artists join together to record '1969: Key To Change' album for Centrepoint, exclusively available on new music download site fairsharemusic

Prince William, Patron of Centrepoint, the UK's largest youth charity, helped launch an album of exclusive star studded cover tracks to celebrate Centrepoint's 40th anniversary, available for download from new ethical music site fairsharemusic.

The album is a compilation of iconic 1969 hits, the year Centrepoint was founded, recorded by a number of music legends along with some of the best recording artists around today.

Tracks include "In The Ghetto" covered by Bernard Sumner's new band Bad Lieutenant, "In The Year 2525" recorded by Ian Brown and "Tendency To Be Free" by The Smiths' Johnny Marr, with donations from each album helping support homeless young people around the country.

Other artists include The Feeling, Mick Hucknall and Jools Holland amongst others.

"Centrepoint is an incredible charity that works to tackle homelessness amongst young people," comments Sara Cox, Radio One DJ and Centrepoint supporter. "I'm excited to launch '1969 Key To Change', a brilliant album, exclusively available on fairsharemusic.com, to mark Centrepoint's 40th anniversary. We're hoping people will hear about their favourite singers featuring on the album and as a happy consequence will find out more about how Centrepoint help so many homeless young people too."

For each '1969 Key To Change' album downloaded from fairsharemusic, £4.45 will be donated to Centrepoint. All of the funds raised from the new album will go towards tackling youth homelessness, through the initial provision of a safe home and all the support required to achieve independent living.

The album will also be supported later in the month by Debenhams. Designer, Ben de Lisi, has created a t-shirt to commemorate the album, featuring one of his beloved dogs. It will go on sale on October 18, 2010 online, and in three flagship London stores.

Stuart Rogers, Chief Resources Officer at Centrepoint added: "By releasing this amazing new album exclusively available through fairsharemusic, Centrepoint will raise even more funds from album sales, with £4.45 from each album going towards giving homeless young people a brighter future. Everyone really can make a difference!"

Centrepoint was created in 1969 and is the leading national charity working to improve the lives of homeless young people. With a large number of celebrity supporters, including Radio One DJ Sara Cox and actress and presenter Lisa Maxwell Centrepoint has managed to help more than 70,000 young people in its forty year history.

'1969 Key To Change' is exclusively available on fairsharemusic, the new music download site that fuses the best of music downloading with the 'feelgood' factor of donating.

About Key To Change

The album includes the following tracks:

In the Year 2525 - The Feeling
Space Oddity - Get Cape Wear Fly
Give Peace a Chance - Speech Debelle
Chains of Love - Hucknall
You Are So Beautiful - Jools Holland and Ruby Turner
Build Me Up Buttercup - Frank Turner
What Goes On - Chris Difford
Tendency To Be Free - Johnny Marr
Girl On a Swing - Galen and Kevin Ayers
1969 - Hard- Fi
Gimme Shelter - Pleasure Mob
In the Ghetto - Bad Lieutenant
In The Year 2525 Remix - Ian Brown

About Centrepoint

- Centrepoint is the leading national charity supporting homeless young people aged 16-25.

- Centrepoint’s vision is to end youth homelessness. And every day, we work to give homeless young people a future.

- At any one time Centrepoint supports 800 homeless young people providing a range of accommodation-based and floating support services in London and the North East of England. These include emergency night shelters and accommodation-based short stay services, as well as specialist services for care leavers, ex-offenders, young single parents, foyers and supported flats.

- Centrepoint's work is about more than just providing a safe bed for the night, Centrepoint helps young people to turn their lives around by gaining essential lifeskills; tackling their physical and mental health issues and moving into education or employment.

- Through policy work, we aim to influence public policy, campaigning on behalf of the young people we support.

- Founded in 1969, Centrepoint has helped more than 70,000 homeless young.

- Prince William became Centrepoint's patron in 2005.

Download '1969 Key To Change' album from fairsharemusic.com

For more information, please visit:

Centrepoint Official Website

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