Swallows Are For Hope

Happy birthday to AO3 🎂🎉

Happy Anniversary to getting confirmation that Harry was bald. Baldrry Anniversary!

Someone from Doncaster has apperently commented on a reel about Louis, telling how he has been helping children and done fundraising for years.

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Eight of Cups and The Devil

Here's a path labeled "Good Intentions." Let's go that way.

It will hit you randomly on a Friday afternoon making a meal, watching tv or starring at a wall in your room. It will never make sense.

You cannot become a parent just because you want a baby that guy you made is gonna start having independent thoughts faster than you think he will

on Father’s Day, sitting in a restaurant with my parents and my brother, my mom commented idly that THIS was what she wanted when she & my dad started planning for kids almost 40 years ago. Not how cute a baby would be, not teaching a child to read or ride a bike, but THIS - a holiday meal with her two adult children who are grown and happy, living lives they enjoy. And I thought how lucky I am, that I have her. To know that my whole life was what she wanted and looked forward to, not just my infancy or childhood. To know that she was looking forward to knowing me, as a full and complete person.

Link. Zayn’s website

I love this man so much I can’t even explain it

The new version of the Christmas classic amalgamates voices from the versions of 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' from 1984, 2004 and 2014

By Emma Wilkes 13th November 2024

A new ‘2024 Ultimate Mix’ version of Band Aid’s ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ will arrive later this month in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the charity Christmas single.

The new mix of the song, produced by Trevor Horn, brings together all of the voices from three versions of the track, recorded in 1984, 2004 and 2014.

-> full article here at nme.com

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I know various harrie UAs and some media are saying only Harry will feature on this release, and it's probably because the press release quoted in both Rolling Stone UK and Music Week seems to feature the sentence "A young George Michael beside a young Harry Styles." with no mention of 1D. but to me this reads as it will be all five 1D members in the recording from 2014.. The Guardian mentions One Direction and not Harry specifically.

reblog to add this excerpt from The Guardian (and to recommend reading the full article!)

by Ben Beaumont-Thomas Wed 13 Nov 2024 09.00 CET

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Subtitled “2024 Ultimate Mix” and released on 25 November, the new version of the song certainly has an impressively A-list cast of singers. Contributors from the 1984 original include George Michael, Boy George, Sting and Simon Le Bon; Robbie Williams, Dido and Sugababes are among those from Band Aid 20 in 2004; while alumni from 2014’s Band Aid 30 include Ed Sheeran, Sinéad O’Connor, Sam Smith, Seal, Guy Garvey and One Direction. There will also be two appearances by Chris Martin, and three from Bono.

The backing band is compiled from the original and 2004 versions, with Paul McCartney and Duran Duran’s John Taylor on bass, Thom Yorke on piano, Phil Collins on drums, and Justin and Dan Hawkins from the Darkness on guitar.

Stitching them together for the new version is Trevor Horn, the music producer known for 80s hits with Frankie Goes to Hollywood, ABC and more, who was originally asked by Bob Geldof to produce the 1984 original. In the end, Ultravox’s Midge Ure produced Do They Know It’s Christmas? in Horn’s studio, with Horn later providing a 12in remix.

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The 2024 version will have a music video that splices performance footage from across the years, directed by Oliver Murray, who did a similar job with the video for the Beatles’ 2023 song Now and Then.

Sir Peter Blake, the pop artist who created the artwork for the 1984 release, returns to create a new image for the cover of the 2024 version, which will be available on CD and 12in vinyl as well as streams and downloads.

-> full article on theguardian.com

Dear Liam,

I hope you know that if love could have saved you, you would have been immortal.

Harry performing Kiwi tonight! 🕺🏼 🥝

Love On Tour 2023: Lisbon. (18 July 2023)

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I love this man so much I can’t even explain it

Someone from Doncaster has apperently commented on a reel about Louis, telling how he has been helping children and done fundraising for years.

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This is so, so important you guys.