Watch Lana Del Rey cowl ‘Unchained Melody’ with Paul Cauthen at Stagecoach Pageant
Lana Del Rey has coated ‘Unchained Melody’ with nation star Paul Cauthen at Stagecoach Pageant in California – take a look at the footage under.
The duo sang the music, made well-known by The Righteous Brothers in 1965, to shut out Cauthen’s set on the pageant.
“I’m so blissful to be up right here with him proper now,” Del Rey mentioned, earlier than introducing the music. “He determined he needed me to do a pleasant gradual one to complete it off. I truly bought to sing this music at Graceland and it’s so thrilling.”
Watch the efficiency right here:
As she referenced, Del Rey carried out the identical music in December as a part of NBC’s Christmas at Graceland particular. As a part of that Elvis Presley tribute present, she coated the music that the King recorded lower than two months earlier than his dying in 1977.
Del Rey just lately headlined each weekends of Coachella 2024, and was joined by friends Billie Eilish, Jon Batiste, Jack Antonoff and Camila Cabello.
On weekend one, Del Rey introduced out Eilish to carry out a duet of ‘Video Video games’ and ‘Ocean Eyes’, in addition to Batiste to carry out ‘Sweet Necklace’, and Antonoff to play piano for ‘Hope Is A Harmful Factor For A Girl Like Me To Have – However I Have It’. For weekend two, she turned to Cabello to carry out the latter’s ‘I Luv It’.
She subsequently revealed that she had solely recovered from laryngitis “just a few hours” earlier than taking the stage for the primary weekend, whereas additionally hitting out at her former tour supervisor, who she mentioned had “give up for no cause” simply over a month earlier than the set.
In a four-star evaluation of the weekend one set, NME wrote: “Some festival-goers and critics have pointed to Del Rey as an “odd” selection of headliner – somebody not precisely identified for placing in energetic, flashy performances. Tonight, unswayed by these opinions, she sticks to what’s true to her and as an alternative focuses on one thing suave somewhat than gimmicky.”
Her second set, which ran 13 minutes over its allotted time, is reportedly set to value the pageant a effective of round $28,000 (£22,585).
Final June, the ‘Video Video games’ singer-songwriter bumped into an identical drawback with her efficiency at Glastonbury, the place she arrived on stage late and was subsequently minimize off as a result of hitting the curfew.
In different Lana information, Courtney Love just lately mentioned that she thinks the singer “ought to actually take seven years off”, after having beforehand labelled her as a “true musical genius”.
“I haven’t favored Lana since she coated a John Denver music, and I feel she ought to actually take seven years off,” mentioned Love. “Up till ‘Take Me Dwelling, Nation Roads’ I believed she was nice. After I was recording my new album, I needed to cease listening to her as she was influencing me an excessive amount of.”
Del Rey is about to be one of many headliners at Studying & Leeds 2024, alongside Liam Gallagher, Blink-182, Fred Once more.., Gerry Cinnamon and Catfish & The Bottlemen. The festivals happen from August 21-25 and tickets are on sale now for each areas; buy here (for Reading) and here (for Leeds).