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Reader Blind Item – Kindness

I received a heart wrenching email from a teenage fan whose friend had just passed away suddenly in a car accident.

The fan said his friends favorite song was the HUGE melancholy love song this foreign based permanent A list band had, and could they please play it at their concert the following night?

We forwarded the email to the band, and not only did they play the song (which, well they would’ve anyway, let’s be honest) but they dedicated it to the teen who passed away and had all of his friends and family backstage to meet the band after the show.

Metallica

You can listen it here: 2.06.14 mark

Metallica sing tribute to crash victim fan Chris

The heartbroken family of a young Co Meath man killed just weeks before he was due to see Metallica in concert have thanked the rock legends for dedicating a song to him at their Slane Castle gig.

Lead singer James Hetfield brought tears of sadness and joy to family members when he announced “This is for a friend we never met – Christopher Bell”, before launching into the classic Nothing Else Matters.

Christopher (26), from Duleek, died after his motorbike was in a collision with a tractor on the Clonmellon Road outside Kells on May 25.

The hugely popular Corporal in the Defence Forces Army Reserve was on his way to a holiday home in Co Westmeath when the accident happened. His distraught partner Carina was following him in her car.

Christopher was an avid fan of Metallica and already had his ticket to see his idols in Slane. His uncle Adrian Murray said Christopher’s sisters, Nicole and Katie, had brought his ticket to the concert in his honour.

Just ahead of the gig, Adrian got a call from a friend telling him he had managed to contact the band. “A friend of mine had got in touch in some way and said Metallica had agreed to remember Christopher but we didn’t know in what way.

Darkness

“Then when we heard James Hetfield say those words ‘This is for a friend we never met, Christopher Bell’, in the opening bars of Nothing Else Matters, it gave us such a lovely and positive feeling.

“It was a little light in the darkness we are all going through since he died. For those few last songs, it was like he was there with us.”- Source

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