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Strategy 6: Cover a song that feels surprisingly autobiographical.

Lost In Music | The Fall | 1993
original: Sister Sledge | 1979

#FallFriday

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#1C000LEST 8️⃣

Jimi Hendrix Experience | All Along The Watchtower | 1968 #Let5D0It

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#HowToMakeAGreatCoverVersion Strategy 1: Make yours the definitive version so everybody forgets it's a cover.

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Strategy 8: Turn the original up to 11.

The Ian Gillan Band | Lucille | 1981
original: Little Richard | 1957

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Strategy 7: Never let anybody else hear it.

Portishead | SOS | 2015
original: Abba | 1975

Recorded for Ben Wheatley's adaptation of High Rise but not released. Later made available on YouTube as a tribute to Jo Cox MP

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Strategy 9: Be Grace Jones.

Grace Jones | Private Life | 1980
original: The Pretenders | 1980

See also Warm Leatherette, She's Lost Control, Walking In The Rain

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This track is also a contender for #HowToMakeAGreatCoverVersion Strategy 1: Make yours the definitive version so everybody forgets it's a cover.

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Strategy 10: Take a shite song and make it better.

Sid Vicious | My Way | 1978
original: Frank Sinatra | 1969

Bit unfair, I revere Sinatra, but My Way is a maudlin mess.

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