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Posted by Steven C on 11 September 2009 - 12:15pm.
In The Times today - 10 Beatles' covers that work.
Miss Mossman identifies U2's take on 'Helter Skelter'as what the Beatles would have sounded like if they had gone on to become a stadium band ... as if this were a good thing.
That's just plain wrong, surely! Anyone?
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"We're stealing it back"
Bollocks are you. If that's what you're going to do with it, leave it with Charles Manson.
Was interested to hear George Martin
suggesting in his BBC 6 feature that the 2nd side of Abbey Road "patchwork" indicated the way they'd have gone ... cheeky melodic suites anyone ;-)
barkers
Personally, I think this is the best Beatles cover ever:
Only because
Glen Campbell never sang a Beatles' cover?
beatles covers on spotify
I did a 100 covers/covered by beatles in a spotify playlist. although some of the best stuff isn't there of course.
http://open.spotify.com/user/chaileyjem/playlist/2pfScTYcGNBS6RoKbQKgUF yep.
favourite cover today. Fanny's version of Hey Bulldog.
However wrong she may be about U2....
surely she can't be as wrongísimamente McWrongo about the post-breakup Fabs as Bono's honorary homey, the Mighty McCormick.
"It's great because it's raw/slick. No, wait, it's rubbish because it's raw/slick. No, wait...."
Priceless!
"...They took a lot of love with them as they set off on their solo journeys, and it’s a love that still resonates today".
Clunk, clunk every trip. Does he get paid for this? Could we get paid for this?
Great link - have a vote! Or at least an imaginary vote as I appear to have become disenfranchised ... :-(
I gave him one
A vote, that is.
Have one your self
... I'm back on the electoral roll.