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Girls Aloud to release first song since 2012, solely with vocals by late Sarah Harding
Group revisit their chart-topping 2004 cover of the Pretenders’ I’ll Stand By You to benefit BBC Children in Need
The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde, who co-wrote the original which reached the UK Top 10 in 1994, said: “How wonderful to hear I’ll Stand By You with the lovely vocals of Sarah Harding leading the way for BBC Children in Need.” Introducing the song on Radio 2, the group’s Nadine Coyle called it “a special celebration of Sarah and also Girls Aloud’s involvement with Children in Need over the years”. A four-star Guardian review of the opening night in Dublin stated: “Harding continues to be present via the screens that act as large-scale digital scrapbooks of their music videos … the biggest reception is saved for the encore of The Promise, a song with a sparkle that – much like the tenacious and tender group singing it – has never dimmed”.
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