{"id":805958,"date":"2020-04-02T03:24:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T09:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=977090"},"modified":"2020-04-02T03:24:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T09:24:21","slug":"watch-marcus-mumford-perform-lay-your-head-on-me-on-fallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-marcus-mumford-perform-lay-your-head-on-me-on-fallon\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Marcus Mumford Perform \u2018Lay Your Head on Me\u2019 on \u2018Fallon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-02-at-10.17.22-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/marcus-mumford\/\" id=\"auto-tag_marcus-mumford\" data-tag=\"marcus-mumford\">Marcus Mumford<\/a> virtually stopped by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-tonight-show\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-tonight-show\" data-tag=\"the-tonight-show\">The Tonight Show<\/a><\/em> to perform two songs, \u201cLay Your Head on Me\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/marcus-mumford-youll-never-walk-alone-coronavirus-970999\/\">\u201cYou\u2019ll Never Walk Alone,\u201d<\/a> a Rodgers &amp; Hammerstein cover the musician released as a charity single in March.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-sdqoufY9CQ?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In footage shot by his wife, actress Carey Mulligan, Mumford explained why he released \u201cYou\u2019ll Never Walk Alone\u201d earlier than intended. \u201cThis is a cover of \u2018You\u2019ll Never Walk Alone,\u2019 which I had recorded in January for Jason Sudeikis, who I know well. I recorded it because I did the music for his TV show and we spoke and felt like it was appropriate to try and get it out sooner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cWe put it for two charities that are really close to my heart, War Child UK and The Grenfell Foundation, and also just to accompany people who might like it through a pretty weird time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll Never Walk Alone,\u201d originally from the musical&nbsp;<em>Carousel<\/em>, was a British hit in 1963 for Gerry &amp; the Pacemakers, and later caught on as the unofficial anthem of the Liverpool football team. In the face of the coronavirus outbreak, the song has become the worldwide rallying cry in support of the medical professionals fighting COVID-19. Mumford\u2019s recorded version sees him playing piano, while the live rendition on <em>The Tonight Show<\/em> comes on acoustic guitar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MltBRchhd70&amp;feature=emb_logo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cLay Your Head on Me,\u201d<\/a> meanwhile, is a new collaboration from Mumford, Major Lazer and Danish pop star&nbsp;M\u00d8.&nbsp; The lyrics aren\u2019t explicitly about the current global crisis, but reflect dealing with an upsetting time as Mumford sings, \u201cAnd this too shall pass, this too shall pass\/ It won\u2019t always be the same\/ And every single scar that you claim\/ Is a stone in the path to this place.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/marcus-mumford-lay-your-head-on-me-fallon-977090\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcus Mumford virtually stopped by The Tonight Show to perform two songs, \u201cLay Your Head on Me\u201d and \u201cYou\u2019ll Never Walk Alone,\u201d a Rodgers &amp; Hammerstein cover the musician released as a charity single in March. [embedded content] In footage shot by his wife, actress Carey Mulligan, Mumford explained why he released \u201cYou\u2019ll Never Walk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 12:42:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}