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The wit and wisdom of Kurt Cobain...
So there I was, driving along last Saturday; when Nirvana's cover of 'The Man Who Sold The World' from 'Unplugged' comes on the radio. Good oh, turn it up. Second verse - Kurt changes the lyrics...
Bowie - "I gazed a gazely stare, at all the millions there".
Kurt - "I gazed a gazely stare, we're multi-millionaires".
Laugh? I nearly crashed the car. Old Kurt eh, what a wag!
Apologies to all present if this is a very old war story, I'd never noticed it before. I'd post up a youtube link were if not for those copyright crazy kids at Universal Music have blocked the embedding.
If anyone else has subtly changed lyrics which were possibly done without consent of the publishers, let's hear 'em.
By the way, if anyone can explain exactly what a gazely stare is, I'd appreciate it.
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Unplugged/Unembedded
Here it is:
I prefer the Lulu version myself:
Here's a much better cover by Nirvana
No idea as to what a gazely stare is though.
It's Lulu
Big fan of Lulu's version, and indeed of her romp through 'Watch That Man' on the b-side.
i'm not sure if it counts...
but when the Stones re-did 'The Spider and the Fly' for their 1995 Stripped album, they changed the age of the lady that the singer meets from 30 to 50...
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I once witnessed Rush amend the lyrics of 2112 from "we are the priests of the temples of Syrinx" to "we are the plumbers who have come to fix your sinks", which was nice...