One of the major challenges facing the events under Grammy Week, including Fire benefitIs how to set the right tone: How do you have a festive event like Big Concert or Awards show without acting Ton deaf for tragedy and loss as many parts of the Los Angeles fire fires that ravaged the city earlier this month?
Green day and Billie Earth gave a perfect answer in the opening song from Celebration Concerts-which are held at the same time on the adjacent Los Angeles arena’s intuit and forum-through that dueting on a 16-year-old green day song that, regardless, could have been written for this moment: “I am here to honor you/ if I lose everything In the fire/ I send all my love to you. ”
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In an entertaining suitable mating, after the band’s Billie Joe Armstrong sang the first verse of that song, “Last night on Earth”, from the band’s 2009 album “21 pcs century breakdown”, another Billie – Eilish – came out to sing The second verse and the rest of the song with the band.
Eilish left the stage to applause after the song and Bay Area Native Armstrong urged the audience: “Los Angeles! We are still alive! We love Los Angeles, and we have your back. “
The band continued the theme with their song in 2016, “Still Breathing”: “I avoid a bullet, and I went over a landmine/ I still live/ I bleed from the storm?/ Just shine a light into the wreck.” But they resumed their more Familiar position with a powerful version of their classic from 1994 “When I come around” before the ceda scene to yet another Billy – presented Billy Crystal.
