BUCKCHERRY Raises Money To Fight Child Abuse
May 13, 2009The Pulse of Radio reports that BUCKCHERRY will play a special low-key show at New York City's Irving Plaza this Friday (May 15),during which the band will present a check to Childhelp, a leading national non-profit organization dedicated to helping victims of child abuse. BUCKCHERRY singer Josh Todd became interested in the issue after reading "A Child Called It", a widely acclaimed story of abuse from author Dave Pelzer. He told The Pulse of Radio that the book affected him enough to inspire a song with the same name. "I was on vacation with my daughter and she was reading this book for school, and I needed a book at the time and I asked her what it was about," he said. "And it was about this child abuse case way back in California history, and I read this book and it's really hard to get through because of the abuse that went on with this little boy, and it was all by his mother. And I just felt like the book found me and it really had a profound effect on me, and I just wrote that song in the third person."
"A Child Called It" and another song inspired by the book, called "Rescue Me", are both found on BUCKCHERRY's 2008 album, "Black Butterfly", which came out last September.
Todd said in a statement about the band's fund-raising efforts for Childhelp: "If we can reach and save just one child or even their abuser from joining the terrible cycle of violence and abuse, then I will do whatever I can to support them."
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