Monday, 17. September 2007
Topic: MUSIK - on September 17, 2007 at 11:31:00 AM CEST
The top 50 greatest covers as voted by you
1. Kate Bush, Rocket Man (I Think it's Going to Be a Long, Long Time) (1991) (orig. Elton John, 1972)
Numerous artists have retooled 'Rocket Man', among them William Shatner, Star Trek's Captain Kirk. At the Science Fiction Film Awards in 1978, in front of an audience of greying, bemused 'suits', he performed a 'spoken word' version of the song while smoking, self-consciously, an untipped cigarette and enacting a Method masterclass in which he dramatised the Rocket Man's displeasure as he prepares to journey through the clouds.
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