Cover song

[Scarlett]

I need a great song for my music students to do their own cover version of. Preferably not "Yesterday"!! Any ideas??!

[Ward-Minter]

space oddity--- david bowie

[gavinbecky]

What about Imagine (John Lennon)? - It's an easy song to sing and play on the piano.

The message it gives is of course still relevent 30 or so years after it was composed.

LYRICS
http://www.merseyworld.com/imagine/lyrics/imagine.htm

SHEET MUSIC
http://www.8notes.com/school/riffs/piano/john_lennon_ima gine.asp

[ineedahobby]

California Dreaming?

[surfer mike]

Day is done---- Nick drake.

[nedflanders]

What Katie did - The Libertines.  East tune with a good singalong and the kids will love it!

[starrs]

how about teenage kicks by the undertones

[c00ky83]

New Radicals - You Get What You Give.  Fairly simple chords and cracking tune!

[fremsley]

Prince Charming - Adam and the Ants

School's Out - Alice Cooper

[Octavius]

Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd

[Octavius]

Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett et al

[Octavius]

Ace of Spades - Motorhead

[Octavius]

Ok, how old are the students and what sort of song are you looking for?  Is it for a christmas concert?

[Scarlett]

They are 16+. It is for them to work on an interesting version, musically speaking.

[goonerdave]

Has to be Stairway to Heaven - cover it any way you like - Rolf Harris did

[snappythe3rd]

Pink Floyd, another brick in the wall

[c00ky83]

Sorry - I've already had my say, but:  Oasis, either Whatever or The Masterplan.  Two epic masterpieces and I bet you could use every student on a different instrument - brass, strings, piano, guitars...