Daryl Braithwaite joins Harry Styles on stage for a show-stopping performance
As Harry Styles finished up his Love on Tour shows in Australia, he was joined by an impressive 70,000-strong crowd in Sydney's Accor Stadium.
On Saturday night, after two weeks Down Under, Styles performed his final show in Australia before heading to New Zealand.
As a special treat for his fans to commemorate the final Aussie show, the British pop icon brought an Aussie legend to the stage.
“It’s our last show in Australia, so it only felt right to do something a little bit special,” Harry told his fans. “Please welcome, Mr Daryl Braithwaite!”
In a true display of Australianism, Daryl Braithwaite led a duet of The Horses as the entire crowd sang along, with Styles dancing alongside him.
As the song finished, Harry told the crowd the "Aussie was coursing through my veins," before explaining, “He’s a TimTam, he’s a shoey, he’s Vegemite ... He’s Mr Daryl Braithwaite!”
The iconic on-stage moment comes just days after Daryl attended Harry's Melbourne show, in which Styles also sang a cover of The Horses, not knowing the man behind the song's Aussie fame was in the crowd.
Braithwaite was impressed by Styles' cover, sharing his admiration for him on Facebook, writing, “What an extraordinary night it was at Harry’s gig."
"I just love the feeling of these massive concerts as they take on a life of their own."
“Harry Styles is so good at what he does and they loved him. I was completely overwhelmed by the night.”
When Styles first performed The Horses in Perth, he described the track as "catnip" to Aussies, with every member of the audience knowing every word to the iconic song.
“I’ve been playing that a couple of times here and there,” Styles said of the song. “And every time you are around an Australian, this happens.”
Styles then turned his back to the Perth audience, pretended to hear the song, quickly twisting his head with interest, and asked, “Is that Daryl Braithwaite?”
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