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.
“Immediately, 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 offered the duvet model of his father’s ode to peace as a part of the Stand Up For Ukraine marketing campaign, a world fund-raising effort broadcast from Warsaw, Poland.
“I had all the time mentioned, that the one time I’d ever take into account singing ‘Think about’ could be if it was the ‘Finish of the World’,” Lennon wrote.
However “the Struggle on Ukraine is an unimaginable tragedy,” he defined. “As a human, and as an artist, I felt compelled to reply in essentially the most important means 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 will not be the primary artist to make headlines by doing music in help of Ukraine.
At midnight Friday, Pink Floyd – minus Roger Waters – launched “Hey Hey Rise Up,” its first unique music in 28 years, for the UN’s Ukraine Humanitarian Fund.
Guitarist and singer David Gilmour advised 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 assumed: that’s fairly magical and possibly 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 extremely tough and irritating factor to see this terribly loopy, unjust assault by a significant energy on an unbiased, peaceable, democratic nation.
