Busker raises £1,000 for our Who Cares Wins Appeal by playing songs online in his living room
BUSKER Jim Ramsay has raised £1,000 for our Who Cares Wins appeal by playing online from his living room.
The 59-year-old has performed his own songs and covers every night for the last three weeks to help out hard-pressed NHS staff.
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Jim, whose 82-year-old aunt died from coronavirus, has been watched 34,000 times on Facebook, with hundreds donating.
After Britain went into lockdown, Jim heard about The Sun’s appeal to raise £1million for NHS workers and decided to busk online to help.
Every night for three weeks he has been playing his own songs and covers of The Beatles, Cat Stevens, Pink Floyd and Elbow.
“Everyone started talking about the NHS and it was emotional seeing suddenly what they’re doing and what they are coping with."
"To see someone with that much fight give in to this, it’s very clear that this is something that’s very unforgiving.”
Jim added: “Despite the absolute catastrophe of coronavirus, in a strange kind of way, so many beautiful things seem to be happening."
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Yesterday, we backed a proposal by Lord Ashcroft to honour our health heroes with the gallantry gong given for acts of bravery that did not take place in battle.
A No10 spokesman said: “The NHS is doing a fantastic job and the nation will want to find a way to say thank you when we have defeated this virus.”
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