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        <title><![CDATA[Nursing home residents, nurses beautifully re-create iconic album covers on lockdown]]></title>
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            <media:title type="html">Nursing home residents, nurses beautifully re-create iconic album covers on lockdown</media:title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Quarantine hasn’t stopped these seniors from rocking.</p><p>North London’s Sydmar Lodge Care Home has been under lockdown for four months, but restricted living hasn’t curtailed residents’ creativity: The nursing home’s seniors and carers alike have been spending their time re-creating classic album covers.</p><p>In a <a href="https://twitter.com/robertspeker/status/1281627747136274432" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">now viral tweet</a>, the home’s activities coordinator, Robert Speker, posted a selection of side-by-side shots showing iconic albums next to the re-created versions of them. These include a version of Adele’s “21,” where a resident assumes the same facial expression and head positioning, but replaces the original label with her own name and age — Vera, 93.</p><p>In a version of Taylor Swift’s “1989,” a resident wears the same shirt as Swift, but puts her own initials and birth year at the bottom of the Polaroid-design — R.C., 1922.</p><p>Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” is transformed into Martin Steinberg’s “Born in England,” with the St. George’s Cross instead of America’s stars and stripes, and David Bowie’s “Aladdin Sane” is redone as Roma Cohen’s “Sydmar Lodge.”</p><p><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/adele.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/07/adele.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/adele.jpg" /></p><p><noscript><br /> <img  alt="adele" data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/adele.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/07/adele.jpg" alt="adele"></noscript><br /> </noscript></p><p>One Sydmar Lodge Care Home resident re-created Adele&#8217;s &#8220;21.&#8221;</p><p class="credit">Robert Speker/Twitter</p><p><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/springsteen.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/07/springsteen.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/springsteen.jpg" /></p><p><noscript><br /> <img  alt="springsteen" data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/springsteen.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/07/springsteen.jpg" alt="springsteen"></noscript><br /> </noscript></p><p>The &#8220;Born in the USA&#8221; re-creation.</p><p class="credit">Robert Speker/Twitter</p><p><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/swift.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/07/swift.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/swift.jpg" /></p><p><noscript><br /> <img  alt="swift" data- data-src="/uploads/2020/07/swift.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw=="><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/07/swift.jpg" alt="swift"></noscript><br /> </noscript></p><p>Residents, including this one, re-created famous album titles with personal touches, such as adding their own birth years.</p><p class="credit">Robert Speker/Twitter</p><header class="slideshow-header"></header><p>After posting the images, Speker received an outpouring of support, with some proposing that the home <a href="https://twitter.com/juliewhitebread/status/1282406979177193475" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">make a calendar</a> of the re-created album covers. Others <a href="https://twitter.com/HausofVic/status/1282309270956990465" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">made requests</a> for which album covers the residents should re-create next. For many fans, the images were inspiring and brought to mind memories of their own <a href="https://twitter.com/jolielovessumo/status/1282153088904814592" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">elderly family’s experience</a> maintaining their <a href="https://twitter.com/RhiMoruzzi/status/1282222564224438273" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">internal youth</a>.</p><p>On the heels of the project’s viral success, Speker started a GoFundMe called “<strong>The Show Must Go On</strong>” to continue funding fun senior activities.</p><p>“Elderly people will remain in lockdown for a long time, and I want to make their time as happy and full of enjoyment and interest as possible,” Speker wrote in the fund-raiser’s description. “As this situation is ongoing it could be months before the situation changes for them, and the need to keep them happily entertained and full of spirit has never been more crucial.”</p><p>In the US, elderly music lovers have found solace in quarantine with <strong>Radio Recliner</strong>, the first and only retiree-run radio station dedicated to the music and memories of the Silent Generation.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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