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“It’s incredibly rewarding to be a part of such a unique collaboration for an important cause,” Max Cameron tells Rolling Stone in an email. “There’s nothing like the power of a good beat, and it’s great to see that so many musicians across so many genres and backgrounds were able to come together to support WhyHunger’s mission.”

Beatles drummer Ringo Starr is part of a massive, all-star group of the world's greatest skin pounders who've gathered for a cover of his band's "Come Together" for a good cause. The effort, part of WhyHunger's "Drum Together" campaign, brought together 100 of the world's elite drummers to raise funds to build a "just, hunger-free" world.

WhyHunger’s work has taken on a new urgency during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has drastically increased rates of hunger and poverty around the world. For Max Cameron, the charitable component of the project was a natural fit alongside Pearl Jam’s Vitalogy Foundation, which most recently raised more than $11 million for local homeless organizations via two August 2018 shows in the band’s Seattle hometown.

WhyHunger—a non-profit founded in 1975 by the late Harry Chapin and radio deejay Bill Ayres to “change systems, policies, and institutions that perpetuate hunger and poverty in our world”—enlisted more than 100 drummers and percussionists to perform a new version of the Beatles’ “Come Together” in order to raise funds to end world hunger.

NEW YORK (WCBS 880) — Ringo Starr, Matt Cameron, Max Weinberg and more of the world’s greatest drummers have teamed up as part of WhyHunger’s new campaign to end world hunger.

More than 100 of the world’s best drummers united to support the end of world hunger, performing the iconic Beatles track “Come Together” for WhyHunger’s Drum Together campaign.

WhyHunger’s Drum Together features over 100 of the world’s greatest drummers for a newly released version of The Beatles’ iconic song “Come Together” to end hunger.

WhyHunger’s Drum Together features over 100 of the world’s greatest drummers for a newly released version of The Beatles’ iconic song “Come Together” to end hunger.