The Scriptures Breaks World Record.
It has been officially confirmed that The Scriptures has been accepted by Guinness as the World’s Longest Officially Released Song.
The Scriptures is credited to ‘Love Hope Strength’ and officially released on The Twenty First Century Recording Company label.
The recording is available to download now from iTunes and available to purchase as a double CD with complete lyrics and recording information at the www.thealarm.com store.
The Scriptures – Love Hope Strength Foundation
Love Hope Strength Foundation co-founder and inspiration behind the project – Mike Peters (a two times cancer survivor and singer of The Alarm), says “I am so proud of everyone associated with the World Record Breaking feat and along with Pledge Music (who facilitated the campaign), will be sending access codes to everyone who took part so that they can secure their own copy of the recording breaking certificate direct from the Guinness World Record website in due course”.
Love Hope Strength is a cancer charity that runs bone marrow donor drives at rock concerts through a program entitled ‘Get On The List’ that has signed up over 98,000 people to the international registry and located nearly 1700 potentially life saving matches for people who, like Mike Peters, suffer from Blood Cancer.
To record The Scriptures, Love Hope Strength called upon artists, poets and celebrities from around the world to contribute lyrics to the song that was recorded by other artists and members of the public who became involved through a Pledge Music Campaign (www.pledgemusic.com) that ran throughout 2014.
Recording sessions took place at studios in Israel, New York, Los Angeles and at the World Fanous Abbey Road Studio 2 in London.
The project was conceived to help fund the continuing work being done by the Hadassah Bone Marrow Donor registry in Jerusalem that is acting as a bridge of peace in the Holy Land by helping save lives across the middle east and beyond. The registry is run by a special woman named Dr. Amal Bishara (An Arab Christian), who has already helped to save over 20 people from her first 20,000 registrations. The Hadassah Regsitry is based at the Ein Karem Medical Centre in Jerusalem which was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize because of it’s non-political stance in helping patients from all over the Middle East regardless of ethnicity, background or nationality.