Sam Fender’s new single is about someone who was “like a surrogate mother to me”

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Sam Fender has revealed more about upcoming single ‘People Watching’, saying that it’s about “somebody that was like a surrogate mother to me”.The North Shields singer-songwriter singer shared a snippet of the song earlier this week.

Yesterday (November 8), he thanked fans for “being patient”, and shared that the single artwork featured an image “from down the road in South Shields” shot by the late Tish Murtha.‘People Watching’ is due for release on November 15, but Fender promises more album details two days before that (November 13).Fender has also revealed more about the story behind the single in an Instagram post. “‘People Watching’ is about somebody that was like a surrogate mother to me and passed away last November.

I was by her side at the end, slept on a chair next to her. It’s about what was going through my head, to and from that place and home,” he wrote.“It’s kind of ironic because she was the one that gave me the confidence to go on stage, and always used to be like ‘why haven’t you mentioned my name in your acceptance speech’.