Julian Lennon broke his longstanding vow by no means to carry out his father’s most iconic solo tune, “Think about,” throughout a profit for Ukrainian refugees Saturday.
“At this time, for the primary time ever, I publicly carried out my Dad’s tune, ‘Think about’,” Lennon, 59, wrote on YouTube. “The tune displays the sunshine on the finish of the tunnel, that we’re all hoping for.”
The singer-songwriter son of Beatle John Lennon introduced the duvet model of his father’s ode to peace as a part of the Stand Up For Ukraine marketing campaign, a worldwide fund-raising effort broadcast from Warsaw, Poland.
“I had all the time stated, that the one time I might ever take into account singing ‘Think about’ could be if it was the ‘Finish of the World’,” Lennon wrote.
However “the Conflict on Ukraine is an unimaginable tragedy,” he defined. “As a human, and as an artist, I felt compelled to reply in probably the most important method I might.”
The solemn video clip confirmed Lennon singing — in cadences uncannily like his father’s — surrounded by candles, accompanied by acoustic guitarist Nuno Bettencourt.
The efficiency closed out a televised European Union pledge drive that raised $10.1 billion in public, personal, and company money earmarked for refugee help.
Lennon just isn’t the primary artist to make headlines by doing music in assist of Ukraine.
At midnight Friday, Pink Floyd – minus Roger Waters – released “Hey Hey Rise Up,” its first authentic music in 28 years, for the UN’s Ukraine Humanitarian Fund.
Guitarist and singer David Gilmour instructed the Guardian he was impressed by Ukrainian musician Andriy Khlyvnyuk, who left his band BoomBox’s US tour to struggle in Ukraine.
Gilmour saw an Instagram video of the musician in navy gear singing a protest tune in Kyiv’s Sofiyskaya Sq. after which felt impressed to do one thing about it.
“I believed: that’s fairly magical and perhaps I can do one thing with this,” Gilmour saaid. “I’ve bought an enormous platform that [Pink Floyd] have labored on for all these years. It’s a very tough and irritating factor to see this terribly loopy, unjust assault by a significant energy on an unbiased, peaceable, democratic nation.
