What are your favourite Beatles covers?

[The Original An Gadaí]

This is one of mine:



and this bollywood one:

[Myglaren]

[Myglaren]

Not a cover precisely but there are parts that are inspired by/ripped off from Within You Without You:

[Taumpy]

I was having trouble remembering more, and in my googling found this overwhelmingly long list: http://www2.wmin.ac.uk/clemenr/covers/coversfull.html. There are quite a few there I'd love to hear, and many more that I'm horrified at the idea of.

[Taumpy]

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[What Exit?]

I do loved the Fiona Apple Cover.

I will add Joe Cocker's a little help from my friends. Here is the WoodStock version:

[The Original An Gadaí]

See post 4.

[What Exit?]

Man, that is weird, I don't think that was displaying when I made my post. Sometimes the Youtube function is a little wacky.

[OneCentStamp]

Man, that is weird, I don't think that was displaying when I made my post. Sometimes the Youtube function is a little wacky.

It deserved to be double posted anyway, as it's one of the few times - maybe the only time - someone else's version of a Beatles song became the definitive version.

Here's one, it's off George Martin's (wildly uneven) Beatles covers project. I think this version is lovely, though:

[OneCentStamp]

Oh, the guy playing is John Williams. The English classical guitarist, not the composer.

[Myglaren]

I always assumed that John Williams was English or at least British too but discovered recently, through his mentoring of the wonderful Xuefei Yang, that he is actually Australian.

[beebs]

I liked that Fiona Apple one. Along the same lines here's a Jazz version of "And I Love Her"

[OneCentStamp]

I always assumed that John Williams was English or at least British too but discovered recently, through his mentoring of the wonderful Xuefei Yang, that he is actually Australian.

Now that you mention it, I actually remember reading that he was Australian, and I remember being surprised at the time. Apparently my long-term memory really, really wants to believe he's English, because I promptly forgot.

[The Original An Gadaí]

Cash lends this song the gravitas of his advanced years. It is a lovely song but I think perhaps Cash's version is marginally superior to the original.

[parzival]

This only has one line, so it's not really a cover, but it's kind of a unusual place to hear a Beatles line:

(The "Michelle" bit is at 4:40)

Noticed this one on that huge list - the song seems well-suited for Mr. Loaf.

[What Exit?]

Can't agree on Johnny Cash and I like Cash. The Meat Loaf one is good, I heard this at a Clearwater Revival once under very special circumstances. The rain came down in buckets and the festival lost power. My wife and I were near a stage where a gospel chorus was about to perform. One lady walked out, it turned out to be Odetta. She said, "Who says we need power, this is a folk festival." Waved her arms and the Chorus walked out starting "Let it Be" and then Odetta joined in. It was nearly magical.

[SeeOhTwo]

I too like the Fiona Apple cover of "Across the Universe." I think I prefer it to the original.

I also like the Jeff Beck cover of "A Day in the life."



(I hope that's the right clip. I don't have speakers connected at the moment)

[RabbitMage]

I think this might be a John Lennon song, not technically The Beatles, but I still love it.

[Marsilia]

There was very little about Dana Fuchs' musical performances as Sadie in Across the Universe that I didn't like.