Among those making the trip was choir member Reg Utting, who also drew a personal connection with one of the studio’s most famous acts.<\/p>\n
“I was born in Liverpool in 1944, which is the same era as The Beatles,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We’re here, and I’m enjoying it every minute.”<\/p>\n
For fellow singer Steve McEwen, the charity chosen to benefit from the recording has special significance.<\/p>\n
In 2020, he went to hospital expecting what he thought would be a routine check-up after feeling unusually tired.<\/p>\n
“I was in there for six months in the end, in isolation, partly to do with Covid,” he said.<\/p>\n
“But partly because they very quickly diagnosed the fact it was leukaemia.”<\/p>\n
While he was in hospital, the choir continued rehearsing online during lockdown, something he said helped him through some difficult times.<\/p>\n
“The NHS, my wife and family were always important,” he explained, “but to have the choir there and be singing was fantastic.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among those making the trip was choir member Reg Utting, who also drew a personal connection with one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-669280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}