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Special measure due to corona crisis in the USA: music legend rewrites "Sweet Caroline"

2020-03-24T07:51:27.953Z


The celebrities also want to play their part in coping with the Corona crisis. In the United States, for example, it is Neil Diamond who repeats his hit.


The celebrities also want to play their part in coping with the Corona crisis. In the United States, for example, it is Neil Diamond who repeats his hit.

  • The corona virus is causing an increasing number of infected and dead people in the United States .
  • President Trump has already taken action (here everything in the USA news ticker from Merkur.de *).
  • Musician Neil Diamond started his very own call.
  • We have created an overview of our complete corona reporting.

Los Angeles - Who doesn't know the song? It is almost impossible not to have stumbled upon this song at some point on party nights. "Sweet Caroline" by Neil Diamond is world famous. Not only among Diamond fans or the older generation (the hit was released in 1969), but also among the young audience, as DJ Ötzi also sang a version. Whether it's a party for parents, grandparents, at après-ski huts, football cabins or on Mallorca - the song is always a hit.

Now that the corona virus is also paralyzing life in the United States, composer Neil Diamond thought to do his part to stop the spread. Like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Liam Gallagher, Diamond also sent his message to the world via video from his own four walls.

Corona USA: Neil Diamond enchants people with a new version of Sweet Caroline

He introduces with the words: “Hello, this is Neil Diamond, I know we're going through a tough time. I love you all and when we sing together we all feel better ”. And Diamond takes his guitar and strums the first chords as usual. Nothing changes in the text. "Where it began, I can't begin to knowing / But then I know it's growing strong / Was in the spring / And spring became the summer / Who'd have believed you'd come along," says Diamond.

Corona USA: Neil Diamond sings: "Hands, washing hands"

But then, when the chorus begins, the singer changes crucial words. Now that the roar would slowly set in at many celebrations, instead of "hands, touching hands" it is now "hands, washing hands". He also changes: "Touching me, touching you" to "don't touch me, I won't touch you". And the rest then runs as usual: "Sweeeeeet Caroline"

But see for yourself:

Stay safe out there! “Hands ... washing hands ..” pic.twitter.com/QaRB1qZshp

- Neil Diamond (@NeilDiamond) March 22, 2020

And the reactions to it are - no wonder - positive. "Thank you for being a national treasure to us. You are the fresh air that we need in tough times ”. Many thanks to the musician for the commitment. It is the little things that people enjoy at this time. Whether balcony concert in Siena, Italy, or street shows like in Spain, as reported by tz.de.

If you now have a Sweet Caroline catchy tune, you can hear the whole piece on Youtube:

* tz.de and Merkur.de are part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network

Source: merkur

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