15979/2FOUR Marlborough GCSE students who style themselves on the Pop Idol runners-up G4, have launched their own charity CD calling themselves B4-G4.

Their CD entitled Songs 4 Hope produced in a fellow St John's student's home studio went on sale on Monday priced at £3.50.

The launch of the CD with nine tracks, including B4-G4's own version of the G4 Pop Idol entry Bohemian Rhapsody, took place at St John's School Stedman buildings on Monday.

Students queued to get copies with many asking for theirs to be autographed in case B4-G4 turn out one day to be another fab four.

The band members are Joe Beattie, James Bumphrey, David McCarthy and Ollie Wilde.

They had help along the way from instrumentalists including the school's head of music Max More on piano; Evelyn Richardson, lead guitar; Jack Kelly, piano; Morgan Taylor, drums; Henry Maulik who joined in some of the vocals and Tom Ripley, piano.

The B4-G4 members have written four of the songs and their friend Joel Cormack who allowed the group to use his home studio to record the CD wrote another couple.

A final medley includes extracts from B4-G4's own version of the Queen classic Bohemian Rhapsody.

The first run of 50 copies was produced by James Bumphrey on his home PC and more will be produced to meet demand.

Ollie, 16, the same as the other B4-G4 members, said: "We did a G4 take off at the school Gong Show at Christmas where we sang Bohemian Rhapsody.

"Then just after Christmas there was the tsunami disaster and we thought that perhaps we could do a charity CD."

However the proceeds of the CD will not necessarily be going to the tsunami appeal.

Ollie said: "We thought we would ask the school to vote on which charity the money goes to."

The lads said they hoped students would vote in favour of one of the charities that help in the area like the Macmillan Nurses.