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covers that you thought were originals
10 November 2012
4.56am
billyshears
Casbah Coffee Club
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There are two songs that come to mind. The first version of Lucy in the Sky I ever heard was by Elton John and was surprised to find out it was by the Beatles. The other was a country song called Everytime You Walk in the Room and found it had been done in the sixties by the Searchers.

12 November 2012
5.01pm
Von Bontee
A Hole In The Road
Apple rooftop
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I'll never forget listening to the radio one night in 1980 and hearing an unfamiliar, more primitive-sounding version of Aerosmith's "Come Together", which I knew from it's hit version of two years earlier. I called the radio station to find out who it was and was truly shocked to learn it was the Beatles, and the song was an original of theirs from years earlier. At the time I associated the Beatles with jangly guitars and harmonies and melodies.

  You won't see me nowhere, man, I'm looking through you!
17 November 2012
11.24pm
Camarasaur8
On a tour bus, surrounded by freaks...
Casbah Coffee Club
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5 June 2012
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Jimi Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" and "Wild Thing".

Reverse the polarity of the jelly baby!
28 December 2012
3.14am
Gerell
Philippines, the country which no Beatle would dare to perform again.
Candlestick Park
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27 December 2012
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(BUMP?)

Twist and Shout was the first thing that came into my mind, the Beatles made the song like their own.  Most people I come across with, think that Till There Was You was a Beatle song as well.

"And in the End the Love you take is equal to the Love you make"
"When I was a robber *Piano Chord* in Boston Place"
"Let's hope this turns out pretty darn good huh"
"Pete may be the best, but Ringo is the star"
Paul:"Don't be nervous John"
John:"I 'm not"
28 December 2012
3.38am
Into the Sky with Diamonds
New York
Rishikesh
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Searchers' "Love Potion #9"   "Putting on the Ritz" from the 80s (the Gary Cooper reference should have been a tip off)

Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner" :)

"Into the Sky with Diamonds" (the Beatles and the Race to the Moon – a history)
28 December 2012
10.05am
Linde
The Netherlands
Candlestick Park
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21 November 2012
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Torn by Nathalie Imbruglia. Yesterday I learned it was originally by some band I've already forgotten the name of.

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