In My Forty-Plus Years As A Music Writer ...

[andy-hughes]

… I have seen more than my fair share of classic songs butchered beyond redemption - but I wonder if anything is going to eclipse this!

[Chipchopper]

I liked the original and I also liked that one too.

[windywillow]

This must surely be the worst ever...

https://uk.video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=you%27ve+lost+that+lovin+feelin+paul+shane+youtube#id=2&vid=c206b8c4d545ed127b8e6b089063ebd0&action=click

Hope the link works.

Marianne Faithfull claims the Mars Bar story was made up and it didn't happen. But she would say that, wouldn't she?

[Mamyalynne]

*Warning* Contains adult (that is, anatomically correct) language.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/a-mars-bar-fills-that-gap/

[Ken4155]

Fender, I've never heard that before. And I never want to hear it again!!! It is beyond a travesty. Beyond dire. Beyond any word yet to be created.

[JimF]

I have a particular aversion to covers of songs where each line is sung by a different vocalist. I appreciate that this is often used for charity singles, which do a lot of good in the money they raise, but that doesn't mean that they themselves are any good. The absolute massacring of Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" springs to mind. That gies me the right bowk, so it does.

[tonyav]

PrudieIt's opinion but it's not that awful and one assumes Mick thought it was OK. Without doubt this gets my vote for the worst cover and total ruination of a song ever by someone who's supposed to be a great singer. It's beyond dire.

Agree with that, Prudie. Absolute trash imo.

[tonyav]

T'is pretty bad, andy.

[Sam1960]

This maybe ....... !!

[tonyav]

LOL, that's a gud un Sam.

[Sam1960]

I remember watching it on Pebble Mill tony ....

[MartinMillar]

My favourite cover is of The sound of silence by disturbed

[tonyav]

Pebble Mill, going back a few years there, Sam.

[Sam1960]

Just a few tony lol ; ))

[melv16]

All Northern soul should be covered with s...e:-)

[tonyav]

Shad app you ^^^^^^

[mushroom25]

// All Northern soul should be covered with s...e:-) //

noooooooooo!

[tonyav]

Good man, mushroom ( the proper one ).

[melv16]

Dreadful! My ears are bleeding:-)

[windywillow]

The Paul Shane clip's the one I put on a few posts above Sam's. Did the link not work?

I'm not good with technology. :O(

[andy-hughes]

Mozz - // When it comes to awful covers, I can't think of much worse than Madonna's horrible massacring of Don McLean's American Pie. //

That really is right up there, isn't it!!

I asked Don Maclean what he thought of it, and he told me that he was pleased that it kept his song's profile in the public ear, which I took to be a diplomatic version of -

'I'd rather stick pins in my genitals than ever hear that harridan massacre my masterpiece one more time, I just turn off the radio and think of the royalties, that stops me trying to pull my own head off when I think of what I did in saying yes to her people.'