Beatles songs covered by ex-Beatles
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Ringo Starr (+ Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Joe Walsh and Jim Keltner on cow-bell) "I Call You Name"
Paul McCartney "Words of Love" John Lennon (+ Elton John) "I Saw Her Standing There" George Harrison (+ Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger, Ringo Starr, and others) "I Saw Her Standing There" Paul McCartney (+ Bruce Springsteen) "I Saw Her Standing There" / "Twist And Shout" -
Paul has covered quite a lot of beatles songs!
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Yes...you could just list his tours! LOL.
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The first one to come to my mind is Ringo Starr- Love Me Do
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These are really not proper covers, but live performances. A true cover would be a Beatles song on one of their solo studio albums. Actually I can't think of any proper covers done by ex-Beatles.
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I think the closest would be a remake of Pauls' own Beatles' cover of Kansas City on Choba BCCP.
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Erik in NJ:
These are really not proper covers, but live performances. A true cover would be a Beatles song on one of their solo studio albums. Actually I can't think of any proper covers done by ex-Beatles.
As noted above, Ringo's cover of Love Me Do certainly qualifies. I'm pretty sure that covers it as far as released studio recordings.
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Maybe open to debate, but there is Paul's studio recording of "P.S. Love Me Do," which combines the two Beatles songs into one. The studio version appears on the two-disc Japanese release of Flowers In The Dirt (while the live version was on the "Birthday (live)" single). And there's John's little ad-lib of "Yesterday" (with "Now I'm an amputee") in the Lennon Anthology box, although that's just fooling around in the studio, not making a real recording.
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Let's not forget Paul's insipid remakes in Give My Regards To Broadstreet (Good Day Sunshine, Here There and Everywhere, Long and Winding Road, Eleanor Rigby, For No One and Yesterday). On second thought's, let's do!!
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Elton John "Lucy in The Sky with Diamonds" studio version, with John Lennon singing harmony vocal, at times almost a lead vocal.
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I like the give my regards to broadstreet tracks!
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graystoke:
Let's not forget Paul's insipid remakes in Give My Regards To Broadstreet (Good Day Sunshine, Here There and Everywhere, Long and Winding Road, Eleanor Rigby, For No One and Yesterday). On second thought's, let's do!!
I agree with George Harrison's assessment - those were remakes? I couldnt tell the difference.
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JoeySmith:
graystoke:
Let's not forget Paul's insipid remakes in Give My Regards To Broadstreet (Good Day Sunshine, Here There and Everywhere, Long and Winding Road, Eleanor Rigby, For No One and Yesterday). On second thought's, let's do!!
I agree with George Harrison's assessment - those were remakes? I couldnt tell the difference.
Horrible career move by Paul when he was still on top. Nothing about GMRTB makes any sense.The "Eleanor Rigby" version is interesting, at least, for going into "Eleanor's Dream."
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JoeySmith:
graystoke:
Let's not forget Paul's insipid remakes in Give My Regards To Broadstreet (Good Day Sunshine, Here There and Everywhere, Long and Winding Road, Eleanor Rigby, For No One and Yesterday). On second thought's, let's do!!
I agree with George Harrison's assessment - those were remakes? I couldnt tell the difference.
Horrible career move by Paul when he was still on top. Nothing about GMRTB makes any sense.It's kind of sad. I really like all 3 of the originals, but the remakes were just unfortunate -- and not just the Beatles tunes. Silly Love Songs without the original's killer bass line just dies.
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1967, The Beatles "Christmas Time (Is Here Again)" (long / complete version / pretty much an instrumental at the very end)
1999, Ringo Starr "Christmas Time (Is Here Again)" (the second time there's the distinctive sound of Scottish bagpipes on a Beatle record, the first being Paul's "Mull of Kintyre") -
JoeySmith:
graystoke:
Let's not forget Paul's insipid remakes in Give My Regards To Broadstreet (Good Day Sunshine, Here There and Everywhere, Long and Winding Road, Eleanor Rigby, For No One and Yesterday). On second thought's, let's do!!
I agree with George Harrison's assessment - those were remakes? I couldnt tell the difference.
Horrible career move by Paul when he was still on top. Nothing about GMRTB makes any sense.The Girl Is Mine. Pipes Of Peace. GMRTB... His career nadir. He never recovered from it.
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moptops:
JoeySmith:
graystoke:
Let's not forget Paul's insipid remakes in Give My Regards To Broadstreet (Good Day Sunshine, Here There and Everywhere, Long and Winding Road, Eleanor Rigby, For No One and Yesterday). On second thought's, let's do!!
I agree with George Harrison's assessment - those were remakes? I couldnt tell the difference.
Horrible career move by Paul when he was still on top. Nothing about GMRTB makes any sense.The Girl Is Mine. Pipes Of Peace. GMRTB... His career nadir. He never recovered from it.
I don't agree. Paul's last Number Ones come from exactly that era. "Say Say Say" off Pipes of Peace was number two. The song "Pipes of Peace" was also a huge success, another number 1. So was "No More Lonely Nights" off GMRTB In the UK, "McCartney II", "Tug of War", and "Give My Regards" were all numbers one. Later, "Flowers in The Dirt" (1989) was again number one, while "Flaming Pie" (1997) reached number two on UK album charts. Not that bad. As for the music, it's all a matter of tastes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney_discography
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Pawel:
moptops:
JoeySmith:
graystoke:
Let's not forget Paul's insipid remakes in Give My Regards To Broadstreet (Good Day Sunshine, Here There and Everywhere, Long and Winding Road, Eleanor Rigby, For No One and Yesterday). On second thought's, let's do!!
I agree with George Harrison's assessment - those were remakes? I couldnt tell the difference.
Horrible career move by Paul when he was still on top. Nothing about GMRTB makes any sense.The Girl Is Mine. Pipes Of Peace. GMRTB... His career nadir. He never recovered from it.
I don't agree. Paul's last Number Ones come from exactly that era. "Say Say Say" off Pipes of Peace was number two. The song "Pipes of Peace" was also a huge success, another number 1. So was "No More Lonely Nights" off GMRTB In the UK, "McCartney II", "Tug of War", and "Give My Regards" were all numbers one. Later, "Flowers in The Dirt" (1989) was again number one, while "Flaming Pie" (1997) reached number two on UK album charts. Not that bad. As for the music, it's all a matter of tastes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney_discography
I refer to his artistic standing. He became a figure of fun in the 1980's, and I suspect to put that to bed he was motivated to tour again. After all, that's what he does best: concerts. He has recovered some ground with a string of good albums, but that period in the 1980's his reputation as a music heavyweight took an almighty hit.
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Well, it is true that in the 1980's he became pretty much a plain pop performer, but if you take off all that heavy poppish production mask off his songs of that time then they are still some really good tunes and songs
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Pawel:
Well, it is true that in the 1980's he became pretty much a plain pop performer, but if you take off all that heavy poppish production off his songs of that time then they are still some really good tunes and songs
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