Taylor Swift has paid tribute to the victims of the Manchester Arena bombing
Swift was performing at the Ethiad Stadium in the city on Friday when she thanked fans for their incredible resilience to keep dancing and to keep the innocence and the joy and excitement.
She began: When you tour as long as Ive been touring you get visuals in your mind.
And when I think of Manchester its always this way, its how absolutely super passionate you are about music.
And concerts are supposed to be about to innocence and joy and excitement and escaping things that stress us out, and what happened over a year ago was to try and steal that excitement and joy and escape, and ever since then youve shown such strength and youve shown you will never let anyone forget those victims.
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And youve shown you have such incredible resilience to keep dancing and to keep the innocence and the joy and excitement.
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Manchester, its such an honour to play for you tonight, she added.
She then sang her song Dancing With Our Hands Tied which includes the lyrics: Id hold you as the water rushes in, if I could dance with you again.
The Manchester attack occurred in May 2017 during an Ariana Grande concert, which killed 22 people.
This gig represents Taylors first gig of two for her Reputation world tour.
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