Video of US father singing to dying baby goes viral


  • World
  • Friday, 14 Nov 2014

A screengrab of the video.

LOS ANGELES: A heartbreaking video of a man singing a Beatles song to his dying newborn baby, after the mother passed away during labour, has gone viral online. 

Chris Picco took a guitar into the neo-natal ward to sing Blackbird to his son Lennon, born prematurely by emergency Caesarian section last weekend. 

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