{"id":11350,"date":"2012-07-06T15:46:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T23:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=11350"},"modified":"2012-07-06T15:46:34","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T23:46:34","slug":"beauty-watch-blur-perform-new-song-under-the-westway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-07\/beauty-watch-blur-perform-new-song-under-the-westway\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty:  Watch Blur Perform New Song &#8220;Under the Westway&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Damon Albarn<\/strong> has to be counted as one of the great songwriters in all of musicdom.\u00a0 In <strong>Blur<\/strong>, <strong>Gorillaz<\/strong>, <strong>Rocket Juice &amp; The Moon<\/strong>, wherever, Albarn has penned some of the best songs of this or any era.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the closing of the impending <strong>London Summer Olympics<\/strong>,<strong> Blur<\/strong> will headline at <strong>Hyde Park<\/strong>, with <strong>New Order<\/strong> and <strong>The Specials<\/strong>, on August 12th.\u00a0 Oh to be there.\u00a0 Check out below the band&#8217;s in-studio version of <em><strong>Under the Westway<\/strong><\/em>, the first of two new songs written by Albarn and Blur especially for the Hyde Park celebration.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a beauty that can stand with the best of <strong>Lennon &amp; McCartney<\/strong>.\u00a0 Gold medals all the way around.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em><strong>On a permanent basis I apologize, but I am going to sing<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> Hallelujah, sing it out loud, sing it to you<\/strong><\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No apologies necessary Damon.\u00a0 Please, sing on.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blur - Under the Westway (Official Video)\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c1Uw1uD6lXs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The official lyrics can be found in the video below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blur: Under The Westway (official lyrics video)\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m5DlAZoEsfo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damon Albarn has to be counted as one of the great songwriters in all of musicdom.\u00a0 In Blur, Gorillaz, Rocket Juice &amp; The Moon, wherever, Albarn has penned some of the best songs of this or any era. To celebrate the closing of the impending London Summer Olympics, Blur will headline at Hyde Park, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}