Grown Up Gossip & Internet Villainy
Here we are, with yet another playlist for you to get your ears around. Not literally of course. Have you ever tried to wrap a bit of your body around a sound wave? It’s impossible – unless you’ve been indulging in especially strong hallucinogenic drugs.
Anyway, this week, we’re looking at soul covers of rock classics. And there’s some very good tunes knocking about – in some cases, the soul versions surpassing the originals.
So let us hop to it and see what we have in store for you.
We’ve been poking fun at John Lennon’s birthday celebration over the past week, just to show our contempt for people who hero worship musicians. Just to let you in on a secret – all musicians are pricks. Anyway, some of them make great music so we shouldn’t complain.
Lennon, and the rest of the Fabs, made a frightening amount of good music. However, their back catalogue has been played to death, leaving many cold. However, there’s a wealth of cover versions out there which are really, really cool that you should get in your ears.
And so, by way of saying sorry to those Beatles fans we irritated (and will definitely try and wind-up again in the future), and to wish Lennon a happy birthday even though he’s dead, here’s a playlist of really cool and interesting Beatles covers starring Bill Cosby, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Sinatra and more.
