The group, which taught in 61 Chicago schools until this summer when newspapers reported the link to the Unification Church, urged students to take a "pure love pledge".
A two-hour set that could hardly be any more all-inclusively communal closes with a mass singalong of Open Arms, before Elbow encore with the self-doubting love pledge of Starlings, and a fervent, expansive version of their signature tune, One Day Like This.
" 'Good Loving' is a version of 'One Night Affair' where the singer makes all these true-love pledges, stuff like 'I want you to be my wife,' " Noble said.
Through it all, there's the singing about everything, which means songs about pledging love to another alternating with anthems about pledging allegiance to one cause or another.
Just before his sudden death, in the Cornwall house full of his children and grandchildren, he pledges "love... Just love" to his beloved daughter, who describes this as a "perfect ending" – for her, though not for her brother David.
Siegfried and Brünnhilde appear, pledging their love.
Pledging their love, the two flee from Hunding's house before he awakes.
Another wrote, "I pledge to him, not to receive a photo of the potato salad, but because I love the idea of pledging to a potato salad.
Alvin follows that with "Johnny Ace Is Dead," a portrait of the famous R. & B. star ("Pledging My Love"), who shot himself on Christmas Day, 1954, while playing with a gun.
"Is this really happening?" an emotional Ms. Winslet said in accepting her second award, pledging true love for her co-star, Leonardo DiCaprio.
