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Billie Eilish Joins Green Day for Soaring Duet on ‘Last Night on Earth’ to Open FireAid Concerts
Billie Eilish joined Green Day on 'Last Night on Earth' to kick off the FireAid concerts in Los Angeles to benefit wildfire relief in the city.
One of the great challenges faced by the events during Grammy Week, including the FireAid benefit, is how to set the proper tone: How do you have a celebratory event like big concert or awards show without seeming tone-deaf to the tragedy and loss so many suffered in the Los Angeles wildfires that ravaged the city earlier this month? Green Day and Billie Eilish provided a perfect answer in the opening song from the FireAid concerts — which are being held simultaneously at the neighboring Los Angeles arenas the Intuit Dome and Forum — by duetting on a 16-year-old Green Day song that, regardless, could have been written for this moment: “I’m here to honor you/ If I lose everything in the fire/ I’m sending all my love to you.” Eilish left the stage to applause after the song and Bay Area native Armstrong exhorted the crowd: “Los Angeles!
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