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The rugby league world has rallied around Arrow since he announced his MND diagnosis earlier this year, with the former Rabbitohs, Broncos and Titans forward awarded the Provan-Summons Medal at the 2026 Dally M Awards for embodying the spirit of the game.<\/p>\n
The game is continuing to find ways to give back to Arrow and the latest will see a host of Australian music stars join forces for an emotional pre-game rendition of Gerry and the Pacemakers\u2019 song and Liverpool FC anthem You\u2019ll Never Walk Alone.<\/p>\n
Pop star Amy Shark, who previously performed at the 2020 grand final, will lead the charge alongside members from The Screaming Jets, Grinspoon, and Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers.<\/p>\n
Peking Duk will not be playing despite earlier rumours which linked them to the pre-game show.<\/p>\n
The electronic duo of Adam Hyde and Reuben Styles confirmed on Instagram that they would not be playing.<\/p>\n
\u201cDespite the rumours, Peking Duk will not be performing at the NRL grand final tonight…We never got the call-up,\u201d the post read. <\/p>\n
Each musician\u2019s appearance fee is reportedly being donated to the fight against MND. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not just about Jai,\u201d NRL boss Peter V\u2019Landys told Fox Sports News this week.<\/p>\n
\u201cJai is an inspiration to many people. We\u2019ve received a lot of correspondence at the NRL about how what Jai is doing has inspired them. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a person that had MND diagnosed exactly the same day as Jai. His world collapsed. He looked at Jai and that gave him inspiration. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is for all those people looking for inspiration. We\u2019re there for you and we\u2019re there with you and we\u2019re going to wrap our hands around everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Singer Amy Shark performs before the 2020 NRL Grand Final. (Photo by Cameron Spencer\/Getty Images)Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
News of the musical tribute came after reports that the NRL\u2019s negotiations with Tones And I fell through, with the Sydney Morning Herald claiming it was due to the pop sensation\u2019s refusal to perform mega-hit Dance Monkey.<\/p>\n
However, Tones and I\u2019s team later told the ABC that the NRL\u2019s offer had been \u201clast-minute\u201d and that she was unable to accept it due to prior commitments with Macklemore in America.<\/p>\n
\u201cNothing was signed or confirmed in writing,\u201d Tones and I\u2019s management said.<\/p>\n
\u201cDue to the last-minute nature and prior commitments by Tones, we were unable to accept the offer.\u201d<\/p>\n
The drama saw Australian legend Shannon Noll put his hand up to perform, while there were even murmurs Newcastle icons Silverchair could reform to save the day.<\/p>\n
That didn\u2019t end up happening, with Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns taking to social media to confirm there would be no reunion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A star-studded group of Australian musicians will come together on Sunday night for the NRL\u2019s grand final pre-game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,85,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-915329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}