HANDS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC: “Help,” the all-star...

HANDS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC: “Help,” the all-star album recorded and released in the span of just one week in Britain to benefit child victims of the war in the former Yugoslavia, is now set for release in the U.S. by London Records on Oct. 11.

Last-minute additions to the album are songs by Sinead O’Connor and the KLF, and a guest vocal appearance by Paul McCartney, who joined Paul Weller and Oasis’ Noel Gallagher on a version of the Beatles’ “Come Together.” That recording took place at Abbey Road studio, 33 years to the day after McCartney’s first visit to the facility, when the Beatles cut “Love Me Do.”

O’Connor’s track, a version of the 1967 Bobbie Gentry hit “Ode to Billie Joe,” was unexpectedly delivered on cassette at Abbey Road by her producer, John Reynolds.