00:00 Hello, my name is Paul Lally. I'm the founder of the Pete Shelley Memorial Campaign.
00:04 The Pete Shelley Memorial Campaign has been running since 2018 when Pete sadly passed away.
00:09 Today we're sat outside Lee Library where we've unveiled a lyric bench of Pete Shelley.
00:17 And the lyric bench has come about through a partnership between ourselves and Wigan Council.
00:22 And there was also a lot of interactions between ourselves and Pete's fans on social media
00:28 where we'd asked his fans to pick their favourite lyrics from Pete's career. And we had hundreds
00:35 and hundreds of song suggestions and lyric suggestions and we whittled them down to 17.
00:41 We did that because 17 is Pete's birthday the 17th and also only 17 lyrics could fit on this bench.
00:52 And that's it, we're here today. Our long-term goal is to preserve Pete's legacy and we'll
00:58 continue celebrating his birthday annually here in Lee and that's the long-term plan of the campaign.
01:05 It didn't really take long because I wanted to think about Pete with his music. So we have the
01:12 music note and a guitar but I also wanted to bring the mural into the garden and so designed this
01:21 heart and this one's called a heartbreaker. Everybody has had their heart broken and in
01:30 ever falling in love. I think it ties that in nicely and this one's a heavenly blue. So I think
01:40 the garden really reflects on the memory of both Paddy and Pete and we can enjoy this garden.
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