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Sheeran finished writing the song at his grandfather's funeral. [2] Prior to the release of the album, Sheeran had also paid tribute at the 2014 Grammy Awards, in which he wore a necktie belonging to his grandfather. [4] The lyrics discusses Sheeran's reaction to the disease as a child all the way up until his grandfather's funeral.
Grandpa Elliott was born as Elliot Small on July 10, 1944 in New Orleans, Louisiana. [1] [2] Growing up in the Lafitte Housing Projects, Small developed a love of music as a young boy, in part to deal with the pains of an unhappy home life.
Siegfried's Funeral March; Il Silenzio (song) Slonimsky's Earbox; Sonata for Violin and Cello (Ravel) Song for Athene; String Quartet No. 4 (Shostakovich) String Quartet No. 7 (Shostakovich) Symphonies of Wind Instruments; Symphony No. 2 (Milhaud)
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The video opens with Bieber playing the piano, celebrating his grandfather's birthday with him and Keaton. [44] The moment is interrupted in the next scene as Bieber and Keaton mourn the death of his grandfather at an ocean-side funeral. [44] [45] Two years after the event, [46] Bieber sees Keaton is still struggling with her husband's death. [44]
Louis Marshall Jones (October 20, 1913 – February 19, 1998), known professionally as Grandpa Jones, was an American banjo player and old time/country music singer. He was inducted as a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1978.
The song was well received by critics. AllMusic's Donald Guarisco later called "Funeral for a Friend" "a stunning instrumental" with "a powerful fusion of classical and rock elements where a gentle, lyrical motif is developed and energized until it builds into a powerhouse full of emotion and bombast."
Nilsson was born in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, on June 15, 1941. [7] [8] His paternal great-grandfather, a Swede who later emigrated to and became naturalized in the United States, created an act known as an "aerial ballet" (which is the title of one of Nilsson's albums).