Josh Klinghoffer pays tribute to Betty White with cover of The Golden Girls theme song

On New Year's Eve, Betty White died aged 99, and to pay tribute to the late icon, former Red Hot Chili Pepper guitarist Josh Klinghoffer shared a video of him playing the theme song from The Golden Girls.

Klinghoffer wrote on Instagram, "Outside my window is the last dusk of 2021. Not quite sure what to say about this year. As always, it seems like it just begun and at the same time so much has happened this year, I guess. I’ll keep it brief. I had to be poked to check in here because my tendency, as some might know, is to stay away from these awful websites. As of my typing this, the good folks at ORG haven’t yet texted back about whether they can post this or not."

"There has been a lot of loss lately, a lot of endings," Klinghoffer continued. "It’s happening all the time everywhere, but these past few weeks have seen the loss of a few important people in my life. I rarely feel like I have any wisdom to share, but the son of the creator of the show I have included the theme song to said this, and I think it’s just brilliant. He said (something like), "We are all experts at being exactly who we were the day before." As it’s a beginning of sorts, tomorrow, perhaps try and do something differently. Make that call. Start that book. Go and breathe outside. Put an end to that fight. Feel. Try and mend some of the broken things you see around you, inside and out. Live life knowing you don’t have forever as all lives tend toward ending."

He concluded, "A good friend of mine quoted a poem he’s fond of the other day. I stole a little bit from it. I don’t think he’d mind me sharing it here. Happy New Year… Thank you for being a friend."

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