It Still Holds a Tune

There is a beautiful, beautiful song I love that I don’t get to hear all that often.

It’s terrible how that happens, isn’t it?

The song is called “Unplayed Piano,” and was released as a single in June 2005 in support of the “Free Aung San Suu Kyi 60th Birthday Campaign,” a global initiative to free the Burmese Nobel Peace Prize recipient on her 60th birthday that June 19.

It was written for Suu Kyi by Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan following a visit by Rice to Burma in July 2004 – and marked the first release from Rice (an artist I discovered thanks to a third-season episode of Alias) since his tremendous debut, O, in 2002.

All artists' royalties from the sales of "Unplayed Piano" go to supporting the Burma Campaign U.K. and the U.S. Campaign for Burma.

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