One Love Manchester-For our Angels

"Overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism, But we still got terrorists here livin'"- Black Eyed Peas, Where Is The Love?

May 22, 2017 saw the detonation of a bomb in the Manchester Arena following the concert of Ariana Grande leaving 22 dead and a lot injured. In order to uplift the people , Ariana organized a benefit concert on 4 June,2017.Named One Love Manchester, it was all about spreading love, hope and good among the people. Previously seen mostly as a pop singer, Ariana gained nation-wide fame and one of Britain’s newspaper –The Sun said-“People went thinking of her from Starbuck’s coffee to wanting her to be Prime Minister”.

One of the performance you definitely have to know about is –“Don’t Look Back In Anger” (originally by Oasis’s) by Chris Martin and the guitarist-Jonny Buckland which he said to be his and Britain’s tribute to Ariana. It became the unofficial anthem of Manchester city and topped the charts of the nation again. Chris Martin being there on the stage saying the right thing at the right time to steer an emotional overflow. Crowd singing together always gives me chill and the crowd nailed it this time. BBC televised the entire program. Do watch the entire YouTube video for this one.

Coldplay performed another 3 songs: Fix you at sunset , the perfect setting for :”Lights will guide you home, And ignite your bones, And I’ll try to fix you”, Viva-La-Vida and Something Just Like This with glitter and mobile flashlights in the entire stadium. Katy Peary made the audience roar, Niall Horan performed his song-Slow hands to set in the light mood.

"Manchester, we're strong, we're strong, we're strong. We're still singing our song, our song, our song." - Robbie Williams , was over ther turning his hit-Angels into a sing-along. Parrs Wood High School Choir was invited to sing on the stage after they put their version of the song-“My Everything” on YouTube as a tribute to the people affected. Black Eyed Peas, Little Mix, Liam Gallagher., Take That, Imogen Heap, Marcus Mumford, Mac Miller, Pharrell Williams were the guest stars called upon one by one by Ariana who was the host of the day.

Not a fan of Justin Bieber but he actually sang on that day. He performed a slower version guitar solo of-‘Cold Water’ and ended it with some beautiful lines-‘I’m never gonna let go of love ,I ’m never gonna let go of hope ,I ’m never gonna let go of God, God is always gonna be there with us in the mist’. Miley Cyrus stole the stage dedicating her song-‘Inspired’ to the audience and all the people who were trying to get-up back on their feet after the tragedy.

At the end of the show, Ariana who was going through a variety of emotions throughout the show proved who the real star of the show was. Singing- ‘One Last Time’ with the entire queue of guest stars standing at the back. And returning after exchanging emotional hugs with them to end the show with ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow.’

Do watch-out the videos of the Best concert of 2017(even declared by Vulture) and feel the emotional overflow. It would literally make you feel love and hope .