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Members of Rage Against the Machine, Foo Fighters and others were hired by the Afghan outfit The Miraculous Love Kids / Girl With a Guitar on their cover of the Eurythmics “Sweet Dreams”.

Rami Jaffee from Foo Fighters, Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine, and Kathy Valentine from Go-Go and more bring their talents to the cover and appear in an accompanying, socially distant music video.

On the cover, The Miraculous Love Kids / Girl With a Guitar transforms the classic pop anthem of the eighties into a rousing ballad that slowly moves from eerily dark to relentless and powerful.

Watch the following rendition:

The Miraculous Love Kids / Girl with Guitar was founded in 2015 by the American musician Lanny Cordola after he met an Afghan girl named Mursal, whose two sisters had been killed in a suicide attack a few years earlier.

The aim of the music group is to offer girls and young women who are affected by violence in the Kabul region a point of contact.

In 2018, the group released a cover of Brian Wilson’s ‘Love and Mercy’, which also featured the Beach Boys singer and bassist.

In a press release, Cordola explained the group’s choice of ‘Sweet Dreams’ for their second cover, saying, “We wanted to do something atmospheric – a kind of Gothic hymn – and we focused on the dark but hopeful spirit of this song.

“The lines in the song – ‘Some of them want to use you, some want to get used to you, some want to abuse you, some want to be abused‘- really resonance, reflects these troubled times.

“But then a touch of optimism – ‘Hold your head up … hold your head up“- flows gently through the voices of these girls who have experienced the worst that humanity has to offer.”