‘Hands...washing hands’: How Neil Diamond and Patrick Stewart are calming nerves during the pandemic
‘Sweet Caroline’ gets a new spin, while William Shakespeare’s sonnets prove their timelessness yet again.
Here is how some of America’s actors and singers are helping calm nerves and spread some much-needed cheer to combat rising anxiety over the coronavirus pandemic.
Singing legend Neil Diamond released a reworked version of his popular song Sweet Caroline with new lyrics that emphasise the importance of “washing hands”.
Actor Patrick Stewart read out William Shakespeare’s sonnets.
2. When I was a child in the 1940s, my mother would cut up slices of fruit for me (there wasn't much) and as she put it in front of me she would say, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." How about, “A sonnet a day keeps the doctor away”? So...here we go: Sonnet 1. pic.twitter.com/kDoMNhdqcI
— Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) March 22, 2020
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