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ventaIt's Friday, it's about 3 o'clock. It's time to go underneath the covers (with the lights out).
I always recommend listening to a cover version without knowing what or who it is, so click on the link before reading ahead...
(NB My server seems to be responding rather slowly at present, so bear with it...)
Today's cover version [link to mp3 download expired]
That was One World Orchestra[*] covering the theme from The Magnificent Sevent, originally scored by Elmer Bernstein
OK, OK, in many ways this isn't a great example of a cover. But it went on to become a theme of those protesting against Slobodan Miloševic's government, so I think it deserves noting. Anyone who doesn't know this story is directed towards 45, Bill Drummond's wayward and varigated autobiographical collection. It's very worth reading, even if you've never listened to any of his music.
Anyway... reading October's edition of Q magazine (which, due to the peculiar way in which magazines are published, is already about three months out of date) there was an article marking the 15th anniversaty of the making of the War Child album, Help (which featured The Magnificent).
The article told the story of one man's ghost of an idea being turned into a frenzied single day of production to create the 20-track album to raise money for the children of the Serbian conflict. The Smash Hits 1984 annual (which I have, don't mock) contained the story of the original Band Aid recording, and both these things read very similarly. How artists, great and small, suddenly managed to put aside their egos and just knuckle down for a day.
Q's tale was genuinely warming, with its talk of Paul McCartney handing round the tea and biccies, and Noel Gallagher working all night to take things from A to B, then turning up back at Abbey Road at dawn "in case he was needed". I'm sure some of them went back to being gits the following day (and Noel Gallagher still annoys me immensely), but such stories do go some way to restoring a bit of faith in humanity in general.
And they provide charities with money, so do feel free to pop along to your nearest record shop and lay in a copy of Help.
If you like your charitable albums a bit more up to date, then instead I commend you to go and purchase 1969, which is raising money for the very worthy Centrepoint.
[*] A collection of people better known as the KLF.
I always recommend listening to a cover version without knowing what or who it is, so click on the link before reading ahead...
(NB My server seems to be responding rather slowly at present, so bear with it...)
Today's cover version [link to mp3 download expired]
That was One World Orchestra[*] covering the theme from The Magnificent Sevent, originally scored by Elmer Bernstein
OK, OK, in many ways this isn't a great example of a cover. But it went on to become a theme of those protesting against Slobodan Miloševic's government, so I think it deserves noting. Anyone who doesn't know this story is directed towards 45, Bill Drummond's wayward and varigated autobiographical collection. It's very worth reading, even if you've never listened to any of his music.
Anyway... reading October's edition of Q magazine (which, due to the peculiar way in which magazines are published, is already about three months out of date) there was an article marking the 15th anniversaty of the making of the War Child album, Help (which featured The Magnificent).
The article told the story of one man's ghost of an idea being turned into a frenzied single day of production to create the 20-track album to raise money for the children of the Serbian conflict. The Smash Hits 1984 annual (which I have, don't mock) contained the story of the original Band Aid recording, and both these things read very similarly. How artists, great and small, suddenly managed to put aside their egos and just knuckle down for a day.
Q's tale was genuinely warming, with its talk of Paul McCartney handing round the tea and biccies, and Noel Gallagher working all night to take things from A to B, then turning up back at Abbey Road at dawn "in case he was needed". I'm sure some of them went back to being gits the following day (and Noel Gallagher still annoys me immensely), but such stories do go some way to restoring a bit of faith in humanity in general.
And they provide charities with money, so do feel free to pop along to your nearest record shop and lay in a copy of Help.
If you like your charitable albums a bit more up to date, then instead I commend you to go and purchase 1969, which is raising money for the very worthy Centrepoint.
[*] A collection of people better known as the KLF.
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Date: 2010-11-12 03:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-12 03:12 pm (UTC)I shall check out 1969.
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Date: 2010-11-12 03:43 pm (UTC)More recently, have you heard War Child's Bowie tribute?
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Date: 2010-11-15 02:02 pm (UTC)