TOWER BLAZE $ONG
Superstar charity
Some of Britain’s biggest singing superstars — under the direction of reality-TV titan Simon Cowell — are recording a charity song on the scale of “We Are The World” to help the victims of last week’s deadly Grenfell Tower blaze in London.
The former “American Idol” host (inset) gathered names such as The Who’s Roger Daltry and One Direction’s Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson at a studio near the site of the fire in west London Sunday to sing Simon & Garfunkel’s classic “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” according to reports.
Other singers joining in to raise money for the victims of the fire includes James Blunt, Robbie Williams, Lily Allen, Craig David and Pixie Lott — along with British rappers Stormzy, Skepta, and performers from Cowell’s reality singing shows “Britain’s Got Talent,” “The Voice” and “The X Factor.”
The tribute will also feature pop star Rita Ora, who grew in the neighborhood near Grenfell Tower, which went up in flames last Wednesday, killing at least 58.
Cowell, 57, said he plans to release the song on Monday, and he hopes to get even more acts by then.
“Until that last note has been finished, we will not be off the phone,” he told The Sun of Britain.
The stars will be joined by a choir of local residents — many of them kids who lost their homes when Grenfell Tower went up in flames last week.
Elsewhere Sunday, it was revealed that the highly flammable siding that covered Grenfell Tower should never have been there in the first place — because it’s illegal on UK high-rises.
The aluminum siding — widely blamed for spreading the inferno — was only recently installed on the 24floor tower, the BBC reported.
Prime Minister Theresa May announced that each family displaced will receive at least $7,000 from the government, as many victims complained they had been given just $12 a day to live on.
May has admitted that her government’s support for the survivors “was not good enough,” as hundreds protested outside her home demanding her resignation for mishandling the tragedy.