James Brown covers The Beatles - Something (1973)

cocaine's a hell of a drug.

Good example of covering a good original and making it entirely your own, like every cover version of every song should be.

This "Something" cover was George's favourite version of this song. #chupa

From a beatles fan perspective I'm thinking what is the point in changing virtually all the notes while keeping the lyrics, do people do covers where they keep notes and change all the lyrics?, it really is just pointless to call it a cover. Best just write your own song if you cant help yourself deviating this much from the original.

You have an interesting point indeed! But sometimes covers can be in a creative perspective interesting to hear and sometimes sound better than the original. I find this cover interesting to hear in some ways even if I'm well aware that it's totally different in it's treatment! Like they say, it's a matter of tastes! Greetings from MAPO! :)

actually they do change music. have you ever heard with a little help from my firends with joe cocker? in the musical across the universe the song is played in the cocker way at some times. and thats what a good cover is, giving a new perspective. what would nouvelle vagu would be otherwise?

uhm hes in the same key, hes just interpreting it in his own way. thats what a real cover is, not a carbon copy of the original. i personally think this is fuckin beautiful

Absolutely awful

Certainly not as good as The Beatles version is, but he is James Brown, he's not going to do a straight cover of the song. He's going to funk it up.

It's certainly not awful, it's just not what listeners of the original are used to and it was one of George's favourite covers of the song.