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Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Returns In London, With Assist From Ed Sheeran, After Foiled Terror Plot
LONDON — Taylor Swift’s historic Eras Tour returned triumphantly to London on Thursday night, supported by Ed Sheeran.
He joined the headliner on stage at Wembley Stadium for the acoustic part, performing two of their collaborations, “Everything Has Changed” and “Endgame,” before a rendition of Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud.”
Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Returns In London, With Assist From Ed Sheeran, After Foiled Terror Plot
Taylor teased the audience before his debut, eliciting wild screams from an audience already singing, dancing, and doing heart hands throughout the performance.
Sheeran’s performance was one of the highlights of the beautifully honed stage spectacle and musical celebration of Swift’s career thus far.
It’s been a difficult few weeks for the singer and tour.
Three teenage admirers in Southport, northern England, were killed by an attacker at a Swift-themed dancing class, leaving hearts broken.
Fear spread after a failed attack on her concert venue in Austria when three Islamic State-inspired radicals were apprehended by police.
The Eras Tour’s August gigs in Vienna were canceled, so Thursday’s Wembley event marked the group’s return to the stage. Swift addressed neither on stage, beginning with an “Oh hello London” and admitting her “mind went blank” when she initially greeted the audience, which she compared to a “love system overload.”
She congratulated the 92,000-strong audience for making the effort to attend, which had resulted in heightened security.
Swift has four more gigs at Wembley Stadium, making it a record-breaking solo stay at the facility and completing the European leg of The Eras Tour.
It picks up again in Toronto in November.
Swift’s fans’ enthusiasm, combined with a list of more than 40 songs from across her career, has helped make the Eras Tour the highest-grossing tour of all time.
Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Returns In London, With Assist From Ed Sheeran, After Foiled Terror Plot
The tour is anticipated to raise that figure to more than $2 billion before concluding later this year in Indianapolis.
SOURCE | AP
