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Billy Bragg Massive Cover Of Taylor Swift’s ‘Only The Young’ – Watch Here

Billy Bragg Massive Cover Of Taylor Swift’s ‘Only The Young’
Billy Bragg Massive Cover Of Taylor Swift’s ‘Only The Young’

The English singer Billy Bragg has shared his charity cover of Taylor Swift‘sOnly The Young’ – Watch it below.

Bragg revealed that the Taylor Swift cover came about after hundreds of people paid £1 each to vote for which song they wanted me to cover live on the internet. It was a close run thing between Jackson Browne’s ‘Before the Deluge’ and ‘Only the Young‘, with the Swift song winning by just 26 votes.

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He continued, “When I sat down to learn how to play the song, it came out as a mash-up between ‘Only the Young’ and ‘Levi Stubbs’ Tears’. The same day, Taylor posted a powerful statement on Twitter calling out the white supremacy and racism inherent in Donald Trump’s condemnation of rioters protesting the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, so I tagged that onto the end of the song too.”

Thanks to everybody who took part in the voting. £1707 was raised for the RCN Foundation’s COVID-19 Support Fund which provides wellbeing support to healthcare workers

Check out the full video here.

Billy Bragg Massive Cover Of Taylor Swift’s ‘Only The Young’

Billy shared a YouTube link on his social media account and wrote the caption, “My cover of @taylorswift13 ‘Only the Young’ for @coversforothers ended up being a mash-up of her song + ‘Levi Stubbs’ Tears’ + her statement condemning Trump for stoking the fires of white supremacy. If you missed it live on Facebook last night here it is”

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