Comunicado de prensa: Brian May y Kerry Ellis forman equipo con Virginia Mckenna para Nothing Really Has Changed, tema a beneficio del Badger Vaccination Fund

Propiedad de News Of Queen Blog 2013.

-Fue grabada durante la actuación en vivo de Ellis y May en el Montreux Jazz Festival reciente, parte de su gira Acoustic By Candlelight [Acústica A Luz De Vela], y el video para la canción ya está disponible para ver en YouTube aquí y para comprar en iTunes aquí. Todas las ganancias de las ventas de esta pista irán al Sponsor Badger Vaccination Fund [un fondo para la vacunación de los tejones contra la tuberculosis bovina, una alternativa viable al sacrificio]. Los espectadores en YouTube también pueden donar al fondo.  

Both compassionate animal rights campaigners, May and Virginia McKenna met at a Hay-on-Wye literary festival some years ago, where they were both presenting lectures.   They were drawn together through the wildlife work of Virginia’s BORN FREE Foundation, formed in 1984 to fight for to keep the world’s wild animals in the wild, and May’s Save-Me campaign, created as a voice for Britain’s wildlife, especially foxes and badgers, both threatened under the present government’s agendas.

Impressed by the work being done by the BORN FREE foundation to fight animal exploitation and to protect and conserve threatened species, particularly Africa’s magnificent lions, May and Ellis flew out to work in Virginia’s South African reserve, Shamwari; and Virginia reciprocated by committing her energies to supporting Save-Me’s campaign to save Britain’s badgers.  This created a permanent bond between the two campaigns,  both now signatories to Team Badger. 

May and singing partner Kerry Ellis have played two highly successful UK concert tours to promote and benefit the Born Free Foundation.

Now Virginia’s song, recorded by May and Ellis, is being released to highlight the plight of the badgers whose families have been devastated by the recent ‘pilot’ badger culls in West Somerset and Gloucestershire.

May comments: “The so-called trials are going ahead despite fierce public opinion, under conditions of secrecy -  nobody is allowed in the areas of the cull, and no photographs may be taken - and with absolutely no form of public accountability. The Government continues to ignore the whole scientific community, and the view of the public.  The cull is a disaster as was predicted; it was never on the cards that culling could eradicate bTB – only vaccination can do that.  Nobody benefits – certainly not the farmers, or the taxpayer.   The Government has plunged, blinkered into this mess. So, after all this, what will have changed ?”

La canción Nothing Really Has Changed de Virginia es el mensaje perfecto para este momento.

Dice May: “Virginia McKenna escribió esta hermosa canción hace unos 30 años. wrote this beautiful song about 30 years ago. It never really saw the light of day, and when we all met up in Africa, Virginia said it would be fantastic if Kerry could sing it, and I could make an arrangement to make that happen.  We performed it on tour with a background of badger rescuees, and it perfectly conveys the sadness of the pointless and barbaric killing of these highly intelligent native animals."